Newly released footage of a Black man dying in police custody shows state troopers choking and beating him as he said 'I'm sorry,' lawyer says

Published Oct 16 2020 at 4:04 PM GMT

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The family of Ronald Greene, a Black man who died in Louisiana State Police custody last year, watched newly released body camera footage of the incident, and say it shows officers choking and beating Greene after he said "I'm sorry" during the arrest.
The footage was only released to the family and their lawyer, and has not been made publicly available in the nearly year and a half since Greene's May 2019 death.
Louisiana State Troopers initially blamed the injuries that led to Greene's death on a car crash at the end of a police chase in Monroe, but the body camera footage, and an audio clip of the altercation previously released to The Associated Press, have raised questions among Greene's family, who have filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit.
"This family has been lied to the entire time about what happened," the family's attorney Lee Merritt told the Associated Press.
It's one of those videos like George Floyd and even Ahmaud Arbery where it's just so graphic.