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Recently released video from the Associated Press shows Louisiana state troopers stunning, kicking and dragging an unarmed Black man, arrested him for a traffic violation after a high-speed chase.

"I'm your brother! I'm scared! I'm scared!" yells Ronald Greene, as white troopers jolt him repeatedly with a stun gun before he gets out of his car.

Greene died in custody two years ago. He became unresponsive during his arrest and died on his way to the hospital.

The Louisiana State Police (LSP) withheld the footage. After the Associated Press obtained a copy. LSP said in a statement that the "unauthorized release of evidence undermines the investigative process," but declined to comment on the video.

The initial report filed by state police said Greene struggled with officers and died after driving his vehicle into a tree.

The footage contradicts this account.

The U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are investigating the arrest and Greene's death.

At least six troopers were at the scene of Greene's arrest, but not all of them had their body cameras on, the AP reports. 

When the chase ended, the 46-minute video begins with officers rushing Greene's car, stunning him through the driver's side window and demanding that he get out.

An officer starts to beat Greene, who is then handcuffed, beaten some more, shackled and dragged by another officer. 

"Choked him and everything else trying to get him under control," "He was spitting blood everywhere, and all of a sudden he just went limp," one of the officers can be heard saying on the video according to the AP.

Louisiana troopers Dakota DeMoss, Master Trooper Chris Hollingsworth, and Trooper Kory York have been identified from the video.

Hollingsworth died in a single-vehicle highway crash after learning he would be fired because of Greene's arrest.

DeMoss was arrested in 2020 in connection with another vehicle chase. He and two other officers were accused of using excessive force while handcuffing the motorist.

York received a 50-hour suspension without pay for dragging Greene and turning off his body camera.

LSP officials first argued the troopers’ actions were "awful but lawful" and did not start an investigation into the arrest until 474 days after Greene's death.

The exact cause behind Greene's death is still unknown.

Greene's family has filed a federal wrongful-death lawsuit.
They say the troopers "brutalized" him, and "left him beaten, bloodied and in cardiac arrest."
 

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