Much like the case involving Ronald Greene, a deeper investigation followed the release of graphic body camera footage withheld for more than two years. The footage shows Trooper Brown striking Mr. Bowman 18 times with a flashlight, which the trooper later attempted to justify as \u201cpain compliance.\u201d We commend the federal grand jury in Shreveport, Louisiana, who brought the excessive force charges against Trooper Brown.<\/p>\n
We again call for a full patterns and practices investigation of the entire department.<\/p>\n
The Urban League of Louisiana will continue to advocate for a more fair and just system for all, and for accountability within the Louisiana State Police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We applaud the Department of Justice regarding today\u2019s indictment of Jacob Brown, former Louisiana State Police trooper, for the 2019 beating of Aaron Bowman following a traffic stop. Much like the case involving Ronald Greene, a deeper investigation followed the release of graphic body camera footage withheld for more than two years. The footage shows Trooper Brown striking Mr. Bowman 18 times with a flashlight, which the trooper later attempted to justify as \u201cpain compliance.\u201d We commend the federal grand jury in Shreveport, Louisiana, who brought the excessive force charges against Trooper Brown. We again call for a full patterns and practices investigation of the entire department. The Urban League of Louisiana will continue to advocate for a more fair and just system for all, and for accountability within the Louisiana State Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":96135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
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\r\n\r\nWe applaud the Department of Justice regarding today\u2019s indictment of Jacob Brown, former Louisiana State Police trooper, for the 2019 beating of Aaron Bowman following a traffic stop.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMuch like the case involving Ronald Greene, a deeper investigation followed the release of graphic body camera footage withheld for more than two years. The footage shows Trooper Brown striking Mr. Bowman 18 times with a flashlight, which the trooper later attempted to justify as \u201cpain compliance.\u201d We commend the federal grand jury in Shreveport, Louisiana, who brought the excessive force charges against Trooper Brown.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWe again call for a full patterns and practices investigation of the entire department.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Urban League of Louisiana will continue to advocate for a more fair and just system for all, and for accountability within the Louisiana State Police.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,86,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ronaldgreene","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236873"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241361,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236873\/revisions\/241361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}