Louisiana has dropped its case against a Black man whose severe beating before his arrest in 2019 led to criminal charges and lawsuits against a state trooper. A traffic violation and charges of resisting an officer had been hanging over Aaron Bowman for two years. Court documents show the Louisiana Attorney General’s office moved to […]
“I’m an off-duty trooper, you f—-ng stupid n—-r,” Ryan said as he pulled away in a red pickup truck.. “You’ll always be a n—-r. You’ll never be white. You’ll never be white. F— you!” “That’s how troopers act?” Mclymore asked. “F—- you,” Ryan said. The news station reports that the New York State Police said […]
Carl Cavalier, a state trooper with the Louisiana State Police Department allegedly has been fired after he leaked of internal records regarding the 2019 death of Ronald Greene, a Black motorist who was beaten, tased, bound face-down on the ground, and later passed away while in police custody. After the incident, Greene’s family was told […]
A former Louisiana State Police trooper has been charged with a civil rights violation for pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight — the first criminal case to emerge from federal investigations into troopers’ beatings of at least three Black men. A grand jury on Thursday indicted Jacob Brown for the 2019 beating […]
Earlier this week federal authorities announced they are looking into the shooting death of a Black man by Georgia state trooper, who attempted to stop the driver in 2020 over a broken tail light according to FOX Atlanta 5. The family of Julian Lewis have asking federal investigators to look into the case since a […]
Body camera video from two years ago shows a Louisiana State Police trooper beating a Black man 18 times with a flashlight. The tropper defended the attack as “pain compliance” according to USA Today. Aaron Larry Bowman can be heard yelling during the assault “I’m not resisting! I’m not resisting” in footage obtained by The Associated […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A grand jury has declined to indict a former Georgia state trooper who shot and killed a Black man last year after trying to pull him over for a broken tail light. Jacob Thompson, who worked for the Georgia State Patrol, had been arrested on charges of felony murder and aggravated assault […]
The officer is heard telling Rodeman to put his hands behind his back. Rodeman is heard telling the officer “I didn’t do nothing…” Then he was tased. “I mean my son was just standing there on his phone,” Rodeman’s mother told the news outlet. “He wasn’t reaching in his pockets. The officer there was no […]
FAIRFAX, Va. — A white state trooper who was seen in video released last year telling a Black driver “you are going to get your a– whooped” and yanking him out of the car by his neck is no longer with the Virginia State Police, a spokeswoman said. The Washington Post reported on Friday that spokeswoman Corinne Geller […]
“I thought it was so beautiful to see the reaction on his face, Allen’s mother, Elveria Griffin, said about the exchange. While Morris is clearly a menace on the court, he said that playing basketball with the kids is about more than what meets the eye. “Sports is the greatest common ground, where everybody just […]