This is absolutely fucking repulsive and I haven't stopped thinking about it for days. reason.com/2021/05/21/bod… 
Also Louisiana State troopers: apnews.com/article/arrest…
The abject atrocity of the Greene case reminds me of the murder of Tony Timpa -- whose mother was initially told that her son had had a heart attack at a bar and died. Another officer told her, “Tony called 911, got in an ambulance, waved to the cops and then he collapsed."
What actually happened to Tony Timpa -- who was in the midst of a mental health crisis -- was that he was held down by police officers until he died. nytimes.com/2019/08/01/us/…
They did so with body-cams rolling.
The officers who killed him received qualified immunity. The judge argued that Timpa's family would need to find a specific case that "clearly established" the officers' conduct was unconstitutional. dallasnews.com/news/courts/20…
Tony Timpa was white, in crisis, and terrified. Ronald Greene was black, in crisis, and terrified. In both cases, police lied to the families of both men and, in Greene's case to internal investigators, about what really happened. apnews.com/article/arrest…
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