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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Thu May 20, 2021, 05:36 AM May 2021

Police Officer- 'I beat the ever-living f--- out of' him 'all of a sudden he just went limp.'



Here is the story according to the AP.

The 46-minute clip shows one trooper wrestling Greene to the ground, putting him in a chokehold and punching him in the face while another can be heard calling him a “stupid motherf―-—.”

Greene wails “I’m sorry!” as another trooper delivers another stun gun shock to his backside and warns, “Look, you’re going to get it again if you don’t put your f―-—- hands behind your back!” Another trooper can be seen briefly dragging the man facedown after his legs had been shackled and his hands cuffed behind him.

Instead of rendering aid, the troopers leave the burly man unattended, facedown and moaning for more than nine minutes, as they use sanitizer wipes to wash blood off their hands and faces.

“I hope this guy ain’t got f――― AIDS,” one of the troopers can be heard saying.

After a several-minute stretch in which Greene is not seen on camera, he appears again, limp, unresponsive and bleeding from his head and face. He is then loaded onto an ambulance gurney, his arm cuffed to the bedrail.

In many parts of the video, Greene is not on screen, and the trooper appears to cut the microphone off about halfway through, making it difficult to piece together exactly what was happening at all times. At least six troopers were on the scene of the arrest but not all had their body cameras on.

“They murdered him. It was set out, it was planned,” Greene’s mother, Mona Hardin, said Wednesday. “He didn’t have a chance. Ronnie didn’t have a chance. He wasn’t going to live to tell about it.”

[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/19/2031286/-Police-Officer-I-beat-the-ever-living-f-out-of-him-all-of-a-sudden-he-just-went-limp|]

2 years to get this in front of the public cause when you wear a uniform murdering a black man is just another day at the office.
A lynching by any other name is still a lynching.
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Police Officer- 'I beat the ever-living f--- out of' him 'all of a sudden he just went limp.' (Original Post) Soph0571 May 2021 OP
And it was a lynching malaise May 2021 #1
Murder, obviously RVN VET71 May 2021 #2
This is a great country. rownesheck May 2021 #3
They are sadistic, racist killers in uniform FakeNoose May 2021 #4
Makes you wonder how many of these Bettie May 2021 #5
ACAB. WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #6
Without a doubt A HERETIC I AM May 2021 #8
Legal lynching. The badge is apparently a license to kill with impunity, even on camera. niyad May 2021 #7
Up until now Cosmo Blues May 2021 #9
Kickin' with disgust! Faux pas May 2021 #10
This guy is still alive after a high speed chase. roamer65 May 2021 #11
Is this going to go to the DOJ? Crunchy Frog May 2021 #12

RVN VET71

(2,690 posts)
2. Murder, obviously
Thu May 20, 2021, 06:19 AM
May 2021

Murder narrated by the murderers during the act of murder. And the story and video lay buried for 2 years.

Sure is a great country, this America, isn’t it?

rownesheck

(2,343 posts)
3. This is a great country.
Thu May 20, 2021, 06:30 AM
May 2021

That's why we sing the national anthem before sporting events and force people to stand for it. That way they won't forget.

Bettie

(16,109 posts)
5. Makes you wonder how many of these
Thu May 20, 2021, 08:37 AM
May 2021

murders have not yet come to light.

And why should we assume that cops are not just violent thugs?

The "good ones" stay silent about the "bad" ones...that makes all of them complicit at very least.

Cosmo Blues

(2,484 posts)
9. Up until now
Thu May 20, 2021, 10:36 AM
May 2021

The official records stated he died from his injuries in a car accident. That's also what they said about an officer that they fired involved in this incident. The DOJ has opened an investigation into this police department

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