A big name civil rights attorney has the state Department of Children & Family Services in his crosshairs. Kevin Gallagher reports why…:
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Mona Hardin the mother of Ronald Greene who was killed two and a half and years ago during a traffic arrest involving state police addresses the Senate Oversight Committee. Brooke Thorington has more
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The Chief Medical Officer at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge is voicing continuing concern about the lackadaisical attitude by all too many to the COVID-19 virus. More from Dave Brannen.
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Well known civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump says he’ll file suit against the Louisiana Department of Child & Family Services (DCFS) over a child sex abuse and trafficking case. The case involves two girls that were sexually assaulted for a period of over 10 years, despite reports of the crimes being made to DCFS and law enforcement. Mr. Crump says the blame for their long ordeal lies with state and local authorities…:
Cut 4 (13) “…screaming out for help. “
Advocates for the victims (who are now 16 and 18) say they reported the alleged abuse, but nothing was done to remove the girls from the harmful environment. As a result, Crump says, they were allegedly abused by one suspect and even trafficked to other men. Crump says he’ll sue DCFS and whoever else he needs to…:
Cut 5 (12) “…do this to children.”
This case has similarities to the scandal of Jeffrey Epstein and his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell. Epstein died in prison; Maxwell is currently on trial. Crump says one cannot overlook the comparison…:
Cut 6 (09) “…for wealthy white men.”
76-year-old John Mack, who is politically well-connected in Livingston Parish, has been charged with rape and sexual battery. Crump says DCFS knew about the abuse and worked with other agencies to cover it up. In a written statement, DCFS Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says “we are cooperating fully and willingly with the Office of Inspector General and look forward to any recommendations they may have. Our internal review found no evidence of a cover-up on the part of our staff.”
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The mother of Ronald Greene addresses members of the Senate Select Committee on State Police Oversight about the death of her son during a traffic stop in Monroe in May of 2019. Mona Hardin says there’s no excuse for the length of time it’s taken to find out the truth about Greene’s death.
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Hardin was initially told her son died from injuries sustained in a car crash but then police body camera footage, released two years later, indicated otherwise that Greene was beaten while in handcuffs as he plead for his life. Hardin held back tears as she addressed the committee.
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The oversight committee requested last week that Superintendent of LSP Colonel Lamar Davis have the officers who were involved with the arrest of Greene attend Monday’s meeting but none appeared. Hardin says they need to be held accountable.
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Hardin says her family has been torn apart since the death of her son and asked the committee what it’s going to take for the State of Louisiana to stop allowing men like her son to be killed.
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More serious than a heart attack. That’s the way Catherine O’Neal describes COVID-19. She’s the Chief Medical Officer at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center told the Press Club of Baton Rouge on Monday. She put the death situation this way with COVID patients at OLOL:
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O’Neal said comparatively, the death rate for a person coming to the hospital with a heart attack is less than four percent.
O’Neal says COVID-19 is as serious as it gets, and that we are still not treating it that way.
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O’Neal spoke with frankness about how we turn this COVID-19 pandemic into something far less threatening.
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And, not she says, something influencers or social media are able to be the catalyst for lessening the threat from the virus and it’s all too often deadly results which now total nearly 800-thousand in the U.S.
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A 28-year-old Slidell man is dead after being struck by two cars while attempting to cross I-10 on foot near Gause Boulevard. Warren Bouie died at the scene Sunday night. Trooper Williams Huggins says Bouie is one of more than 900 people who’ve been killed so far this year in traffic crashes.
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Both vehicle drivers in Bouie’s death suffered at least minor injuries. Huggins’ advice to pedestrians is to wear reflective material, stay out of the roadway and walk facing the traffic.
Trooper Huggins says it’s against the law for pedestrians to be on the interstate unless circumstances like a wreck or breakdown make it unavoidable in an emergency.
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Trooper Huggins has some advice for those who find themselves having to be on foot on an interstate or some other highway.
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