Louisiana police officer brutally beats black man with flashlight
Body camera footage kept under wraps for over two years of a Louisiana officer beating a Black man with a flashlight 18 times has been released.
The Louisiana State Police trooper later defended the violence as “pain compliance” despite the man yelling “I’m not resisting! I’m not resisting!” between the officer’s blows.
The video obtained by the Associated Press shows a violent traffic stop from May 2019 that resulted in a broken jaw, three broken ribs, a broken wrist, and a gash to the head that required six staples for 46-year-old Aaron Larry Bowman.
Another Black man, Ronald Greene, had died in the custody of the same police agency just weeks previously. Video of Mr Greene’s death was finally released earlier this year.
Federal prosecutors are looking into both incidents as part of an investigation into police brutality.
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