Trooper quietly buried amid scrutiny over Black man's death
Source: Associated Press
JIM MUSTIAN and ROGELIO V. SOLIS
, Associated Press
Sep. 25, 2020
Updated: Sep. 25, 2020 6:41 p.m.
WEST MONROE, La. (AP) A Louisiana state trooper who died in a single-car crash just hours after he was told he would be fired for his role in the death of a Black man was buried with honors Friday at a ceremony that authorities sought to keep secret out of concerns it would attract a mass protest.
State Police officials and family members mourned Master Trooper Chris Hollingsworth under tight security at services that marked the latest turn in the long-simmering in-custody death case of Ronald Greene, which has prompted a federal civil-rights probe and increasing calls for authorities to release body-camera video.
Hollingsworth, who was white, was the only one of six troopers placed on leave earlier this month in the May 2019 death of Greene following a high-speed chase. Police initially told Greenes family he died from injuries in a crash but later acknowledged troopers struggled with him during the arrest. Greenes family has filed a federal wrongful-death suit alleging troopers brutalized him, shocked him three times with a stun gun and left him beaten, bloodied and in cardiac arrest.
Hollingsworth died Tuesday from injuries suffered in a single-car highway crash in Monroe that came just hours after he received a letter informing him that State Police intended to fire him over his role in Greene's death.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Trooper-quietly-buried-amid-scrutiny-over-Black-15597725.php
Master Trooper Chris Hollingsworth
Ronald Greene
Rest in Peace.
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msongs
(67,395 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,650 posts)Or drunk, and lost control.
JoeOtterbein
(7,700 posts)(tears)
cyndensco
(1,697 posts)What is wrong with this picture?
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dware
(12,363 posts)although he shouldn't have received honors form the dept.
But they were intending to fire him. Sounds to me he wasn't one deserving of honors.
dware
(12,363 posts)Nitram
(22,791 posts)Business as usual in the US police force.