NEW ORLEANS (AP) Louisiana state troopers were captured on body camera video stunning, punching and dragging a Black man as he apologized for leading them on a high-speed chase footage of the man’s last moments alive that The Associated Press obtained after authorities refused to release it for two years.
“I’m your brother! I’m scared! I’m scared!” Ronald Greene can be heard telling the white troopers as the unarmed man is jolted repeatedly with a stun gun before he even gets out of his car along a dark, rural road.
The 2019 arrest outside Monroe, Louisiana, is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation. But unlike other in-custody deaths across the nation where body camera video was released almost immediately, Greene’s case has been shrouded in secrecy and accusations of a cover-up.
10,000th Montana Veteran gets COVID Vaccination at VA Clinic
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Just when you see so many things going wrong in this world, a young man steps up and restores your faith in the human race.
Joshua Nelson, a senior at St. Charles West High School received the prestigious President s Scholarship from Southeast Missouri State University. He s one of only five students that received the scholarship. So now he wants to do the right thing and pay it forward to another senior so that individual will have a chance to go to college. Nelson is donating his college savings to another student.
Nelson saved $1000 towards his college costs. Now you may say that s not much but when you consider it s from a student that has put away money from paychecks and other monies he has received during his high school years.
OPI’s Arntzen Tackles Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project
Montana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen appeared on the KGVO Talk Back show on Tuesday to answer questions from listeners.
Arntzen was proud of the fact that Montana students received their education this school year despite the COVID 19 pandemic.
“Montana schools are open, in fact, they never closed,” said Arntzen. “The modality of education just changed from a blended model to a remote model or to the traditional model where that teacher is in front of those great students. But because we are a local control State, it did depend on what the trustees decided. Some of them are removing that mask and some of them are maintaining it for the consistency of the school year.”
Black Commissioner Says Finishing I-49 Good for African-Americans
Caddo Commissioners Roy Burrell and Mario Chavez talk about the current state of the I-49 Inner City Connector plan and whether the Amazon announcement might speed up the highway s final okay. The Governor campaigned on I-49, says Burrell, explaining the continued delays in moving forward with the thoroughfare, And I plan to hold him to it.
But the Commissioner explains that a biggest reason for the inaction is political pushback. In Allendale, you have strong, committed organization that is behind this - I m going to say it - it s community renewal. There s a lot of strong people in there and I think that s why we re at a hold up, says Burrell, then mentioning the influence of longtime Inner City Connector opponent Representative and former Mayor, Cedric Glover.
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