The committee’s “death by legislative neglect” is especially unsettling for people of color, whose trust in the state police was shattered by Greene’s death and the years of delays in anyone being held to account for it, said Silas Lee, a political analyst at Xavier University of Louisiana. I think there was a cover-up, and the question becomes: Who is going to look at this any further?” “I don’t know that we actually got to the bottom of what happened and I don’t think the mother got the answers she was looking for. Denise Marcelle, a Baton Rouge Democrat who served on the committee. South Florida Mental Health Clinics Under Scrutiny by the Office of Inspector General for Medicare Fraud. “We uncovered a lot of things the general public did not know, but there needs to be some accountability,” said state Rep. Federal authorities also examined the cellphone wiping as part of their investigation into whether state police brass obstructed justice, according to law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing inquiry. That testimony prompted the state’s internal watchdog to subpoena information about all three officials’ iCloud accounts, according to court filings. One trooper was later captured on video admitting in a phone call to a colleague that he “beat the ever-living f- out of him.”īut perhaps the most significant revelation came when a state police official admitted he had “sanitized” the cellphones of former State Police Superintendent Kevin Reeves and two other top commanders who retired amid the FBI investigation of Greene’s death. That all changed in May 2021 when The Associated Press obtained and published the footage that showed troopers stunning, punching and dragging Greene by his ankle shackles as he wailed, “I’m your brother! I’m scared! I’m scared!” It showed the heavyset Greene forced to stay face-down on the ground for nine minutes before he eventually went limp. But it would take 464 days before the Louisiana State Police opened an internal probe, and officials from Edwards on down refused for more than two years to release the troopers’ body-camera video. Greene’s death at the end of a high-speed chase in rural northeast Louisiana was shrouded in secrecy from the beginning, when troopers told grieving relatives and put in initial reports that the 49-year-old died in a car crash - an account questioned by both his family and an emergency room doctor who examined his battered body. “I’m bothered more than anything that everyone can just continue on their merry way.” Growing up in Pinellas, attending high school and college. “No matter where you turn there’s nobody who can be trusted,” she said. Inspector Who Said Florida Tower Appeared in ‘Good Shape’ Is Now Under Scrutiny On 1st Jul 2021 By Northbridge Village Condo Association In Condo Association The chief building official of Surfside, Fla., had worked in at least six South Florida cities. Ken Burke serves as the Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller for Pinellas County, Florida.
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