Thread by @DrRJKavanagh

Remember Trayford Pellerin, the young Black man who was shot and killed by Louisiana police, two days before Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake?

On Tuesday, a grand jury failed to indict the cops, despite the fact that they shot him 11 times in the back as he walked away from them.

DA Donald Landry says that he presented second degree murder charges to the grand jury, but that he feels their decision not to indict the officers was justified.

Which almost certainly means he charged the grand jury as to the defense of justification.
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Grand jury proceedings are always secret. But the DA in this case has shown an extraordinary lack of transparency.

The names of the police officers have not been released. The body camera footage of the shooting has not been made public.

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It's been devastating for the Pellerin family. They are pushing for federal criminal charges and are also suing the city. They say they will not settle until the DA turns over all the evidence about Trayford's killing to them.
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We had Ron Haley, the family's attorney, on to talk about the case.

https://twitter.com/BNCNews/status/1393017562666094594?s=20

I have never been able to work out why some police shooting cases get a lot of media traction and others, like Mr. Pellerin's, are more of a blip on the news cycle.

I don't know if there's only room for one Black police shooting victim in the wider public consciousness at the same time - so once Jacob Blake was shot, it was time to move on. Of course some never get reported at all.

I do know Louisiana leads the nation in lack of transparency when it comes to police shootings and that families like the Pellerin family deserve so much better.