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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 Im sorry! as another trooper delivers another stun gun shock to his backside and warns, Look, youre going to get it again if you dont 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 aint 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, Greenes mother, Mona Hardin, said Wednesday. He didnt have a chance. Ronnie didnt have a chance. He wasnt 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.
malaise
(268,998 posts)Throw away the keys
RVN VET71
(2,690 posts)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, isnt it?
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)That's why we sing the national anthem before sporting events and force people to stand for it. That way they won't forget.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)Lock them up!
Bettie
(16,109 posts)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.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,345 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,368 posts)niyad
(113,303 posts)Cosmo Blues
(2,484 posts)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
Faux pas
(14,680 posts)and