Hardin says they just want something to stick. MARTÍNEZ: Has Ronald Greene's family said anything?ĮLLIOTT: You know, Greene's mother, after the indictment came down - her name is Mona Hardin - she said she was excited to have the indictments, but then she questioned - but the question is, are they really going to have to pay for this? The family has tried to keep pressure on authorities to get justice in this case, in what she considers her son's killing at the hands of troopers. Now, since that, there are so many questions about whether state police officials were involved in a cover-up and who knew what really happened and when, including the governor of Louisiana. And he was begging for mercy the whole time. It showed what happened at the end of that chase.

Then this long-suppressed bodycam footage was obtained by the Associated Press last year, and it completely changed the narrative. There was absolutely no mention of troopers using force.

Now, the initial crash report said that Greene had refused to pull over on an unspecified traffic violation and that, once it ended in this crash, he struggled with troopers, they took him into custody and that he later became unresponsive and died on the way to the hospital. And then his family filed a lawsuit against state troopers, alleging excessive force. And the case didn't really get that much attention at first. Greene was arrested after a high-speed chase, and authorities initially told his family he had died in a car crash near Monroe. Remind us of those details.ĮLLIOTT: So this was May in 2019. MARTÍNEZ: And a lot of the details of what happened to Ronald Greene were kind of just kept secret for a while, only emerging a while later. Now, that's contrary to the original coroner's report in this case that said he died from a drug-induced delirium that was complicated by a motor vehicle collision. Now, this indictment, A, comes after a grand jury in Union Parish heard evidence for about a month now, including some testimony from a medical expert who classified Greene's death a homicide. Three other Louisiana state troopers and then a sheriff's deputy also facing charges of malfeasance and obstruction of justice.

Now, he is the one who is shown on this bodycam video dragging Greene by ankle shackles and then putting his foot on Greene's back to force him belly down on the ground. Debbie, what are the charges?ĭEBBIE ELLIOTT, BYLINE: Well, the most serious is negligent homicide, and that's the charge against Master Trooper Kory York, along with 10 counts of malfeasance in office. These are the first charges to come in a case that has brought increased scrutiny on Louisiana state troopers and how they treat Black suspects. Two years later, bodycam video, initially suppressed, showed white officers brutally beating the 49-year-old Black man. He died in police custody in 2019 after a high-speed chase with state troopers. Five law enforcement officers in Louisiana are now facing criminal charges in the deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene.

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