Veteran State Police trooper reinstated after charges he faced in Ronald Greene case dropped
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The Louisiana State Police have reinstated a veteran trooper who had been accused of withholding graphic body-camera video showing another officer dragging Black motorist Ronald Greene by his ankle shackles
  • theodewere@kbin.social
    51·
    11 months ago

    “We can’t just terminate someone like other organizations. We have to operate by the law and our state police rules,” Davis told AP. “As a superintendent, I have to put my personal feelings aside. Our job is to operate under the color of the law.”

    your officers can just terminate a man in the street during a routine traffic stop, by torturing him to death apparently

    • TheDoozer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      11 months ago

      Look, I’m not defending the officers in any way, but firing them in a way that doesn’t follow law and policy just means they get rehired with backpay later. Off the top of my head, the old police commissioner Kathleen O’Toole fired an officer for blatant racial discrimination (stopped and arrested a black man who was walking down the street using a golf club as a cane and then grossly mistreated him), and even after a lawsuit where the police department was found liable for the officer’s actions, she was still given backpack and change to “retirement” instead of being fired after a lawsuit by the officers’ guild.

      It does no good to fire them if it’s not done properly, but we should definitely work to change the system that makes it so difficult.