Ronald Greene was overwhelmed to demise in 2019 by a bunch of white state troopers in Monroe, Louisiana. Initially, Trooper Dakota DeMoss, Trooper Kory York, and Grasp Trooper Chris Hollingsworth tried to cowl up their deadly abuse of energy by reporting that Greene died when he crashed right into a tree. Following that lie, the troopers stated that Greene struggled with officers and died on the way in which to the hospital.
The one cause we realized the reality about what occurred is as a result of AP Information was capable of get hold of the physique digicam footage from the incident. Sufficed to say, the video didn’t match the story that DeMoss, York, and Hollingsworth had been attempting to promote.
Based on WREG, Greene’s household has just lately been uplifted by Tyre Nichols’ mother and father RowVaughn and Rodney Wells who’ve joined ubiquitous civil rights lawyer Ben Crump to assist obtain justice for Ronald, “I needed to know why there wasn’t a civil rights case for him,” stated Ms. Wells.
Greene’s mom, Mona Hardin, advised ABC24 that she’s disturbed {that a} Black officer was fired for her son’s demise however the white officers concerned had been allowed to retire with out correct self-discipline. She additionally famous that a kind of officers, Trooper Hollingsworth, died in a automobile accident earlier than he could possibly be terminated.
“He bragged about ‘I beat the ever-lovin’ f*** out of him.’ His phrases… A yr later we had been advised they had been gonna hearth him and he died in a automobile wreck,” stated Hardin. “And his information are sealed. Why is that? He bragged about what he’d did to my son. However when he died, his burial was with all of the bells and whistles of a hero.”
Because of this Black individuals and different individuals of shade won’t ever give officers the good thing about the doubt. Far too many “unhealthy apples” have gotten away with far an excessive amount of killing and protecting as much as consider within the good religion.
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