After a months-long investigation into the 2019 Union Parish roadside death of Ronald Greene in State Police custody, federal prosecutors are growing skeptical they can bring a successful civil rights violation case against any of the troopers involved. The problem is video evidence doesn’t seem to show that officers acted “willfully” to hurt Greene. Baton Rouge criminal defense attorney Richard Sprinkle says the real sticking point is the word “willfully”…:
Cut 13 (14) “…more than obvious.”
Greene died during his arrest, after a high-speed chase through three parishes in May 2019.
The statewide average for a gallon of regular gas in Louisiana is crept up two cents and is $4.06 today. The national average for a gallon of regular gas is $4.40.
A bill to allow parents to bring a lawsuit against the entity that prevents a student’s entry to a school on the basis of their immunization status advances from House Education. Fiorella) Trapani Co-director of Health Freedom Louisiana told lawmakers even though a law exists already many do not know they have recourse if denied.
The bill advances to the House Floor.
Funeral services were held Tuesday for East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Deputy Nick Tullier. Tullier was one of six officers shot in July of 2016 during an ambush on Baton Rouge law enforcement officers. Governor John Bel Edwards says Tullier was shot three times and not given much of a chance to live, but he defied the odds until an infection ended his life on May 5th.