A Louisiana State Police trooper has been suspended without pay for kicking and dragging a handcuffed Black man whose in-custody death remains unexplained and the subject of a federal civil rights investigation. Body camera video shows Master Trooper Kory York dragging Ronald Greene “on his stomach by the leg shackles” following a violent arrest and high-speed pursuit, according to internal State Police records obtained by the Associated Press. State Police have repeatedly refused to publicly release the body camera video. “You’re gonna lay on your ... belly like I told you!” the trooper says at one point, according to the police records. Those charges followed a months-long internal investigation into use-of-force incidents involving troopers in the northern part of the state.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 27, 2021 18:16 UTC