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AP: Louisiana police unit probed over Black driver arrests
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Screenshot from bodycam footage from Lousiana State Trooper Lt. John Clary, who reportedly said such footage didn’t exist. (Screenshot from Louisiana State Police, Youtube)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) The same Louisiana State Police unit whose troopers stunned, punched and dragged Ronald Greene on video during a deadly 2019 arrest is now under internal investigation by a secret panel over whether its officers are systematically targeting Black motorists for abuse.
The panel, whose existence was confirmed to The Associated Press by four people familiar with it, was set up in response to Greene’s death as well as three other violent stops of Black men: one who was punched, stunned and hoisted to his feet by his hair braids in a body-camera video obtained by the AP, another who was beaten after he was handcuffed, and yet another who was slammed 18 times with a flashl