Justice Department opens probe into Louisiana State Police

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG
Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is opening a “pattern-or-practice” investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has looked the other way in the face of beatings of mostly Black men, including the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. Officials familiar with the matter told The Associated Press the announcement will be made later Thursday in Baton Rouge. The inquiry comes more than three years after white troopers were captured on long-withheld body-camera video beating, stunning and dragging Greene on a rural roadside near Monroe. No one has been charged in the case.