A federal jury in Louisiana on Wednesday acquitted a white state trooper charged with violating the civil rights of a Black motorist despite body-camera footage that showed the officer pummeling the man 18 times with a flashlight.
Brown still faces state charges in the violent arrest of yet another Black motorist, a case in which he boasted in a group chat with other troopers that “it warms my heart knowing we could educate that young man.”
To be continued…
I am assuming this guy still has a job… jfc
Resigned in 2021. Its in the article.
Must be nice being able to do that
how to get away with murder. become a cop, commit the crime and resign with a pension.
After a three-day trial in Monroe, jurors found Brown not guilty of depriving Aaron Bowman of his civil rights during a 2019 beating that left Bowman with a broken jaw, broken ribs and a gash to his head.
The acquittal comes as federal prosecutors are still scrutinizing other Louisiana state troopers caught on body-camera video punching, stunning and dragging another Black motorist, Ronald Greene, before he died in their custody on a rural roadside. That federal probe is also examining whether police brass obstructed justice to protect the troopers who beat Greene following a high-speed chase.
Let me guess the jury was made up of a mostly white male jury?
Exactly how did he get aquiitted. These fucking states are si fucking racist you can’t get a fair trail there unless your white.
His dad is a known racist.
Bob Brown, the former chief of staff, was disciplined for displaying a Confederate flag in his office and admitted the n-word was part of his vocabulary.
They probably expected to lose this one only to appeal immediately and hope appeals knows their ass from their elbow.
I doubt it, since prosecutors generally cannot appeal a verdict of not guilty.
I mean the citizen, you assume the crooked local court is going to do crooked local court shit.
The citizen can’t appeal either. Prosecutors are in charge of a criminal case, not citizens.
There is no prosecutor in civil court.
This wasn’t a civil case. This was a criminal case. Depriving someone of their civil rights is a federal crime. The officer was prosecuted by Brandon Brown.
U.S. Attorney Brandon Brown, who is not related to Jacob Brown, told AP he was proud of the 48-year-old Bowman for having the courage to tell his story.
“These cases are arguably the toughest that we investigate and prosecute,” he said. “We believe that this victim’s civil rights were violated. Unfortunately for us the jury didn’t agree, and we’ll have to respect their decision.”
Let me guess the jury was made up of a mostly white male jury?
Here comes the story of the Hurricane.
Sadly I can’t find a single news article that discusses likely jury bias. In fact, most articles are just carbon copies of each other
The lawyers on both sides have influence on who gets into the jury. If the jury had such an overwhelming bias, then the lawyers are to blame…. As always
The lawyers don’t pick who is in the jury pool.
I never said they did.
they choose who to exclude. They have influence on the jury selection.
You can’t exclude your way to having a representative jury. If the opposing side strikes all/most of the black people, none of your strike choices can make the jury more black.
Why Is It So Easy for Prosecutors to Strike Black Jurors?
There are no comprehensive statistics on how often prosecutors strike jurors based on race, but there is little doubt that the practice remains common, especially in the South. In Caddo Parish, Louisiana, prosecutors struck forty-eight per cent of qualified black jurors between 1997 and 2009 and only fourteen per cent of qualified whites, according to a review by the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center. In Jefferson Parish, where a quarter of the population is black, the split was even greater—fifty-five per cent to sixteen per cent—so that twenty-two per cent of felony trials between 1994 and 2002 had no black jurors.
Yeah, but you can exclude your way to having a non representative jury… which happens very often.
Your original statement was that the lawyers on both sides have influence. Which they do, but only one side is responsible for all white juries. It’s not a failure of the other side for allowing that to happen.
Do you want vigilante justice?
This is how you get vigilante justice.
I wonder how many people will act surprised when the next protests will end up even more violent.
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Racism happened
That special Louisianna-type of racism … the kind that holds onto the Confederate flag like it’s a life preserver.
For starters, let’s be clear: Jacob Brown committed battery, a violation of Louisiana state law. This case is about an alleged violation of Federal law and simply isn’t a battery case. That means it’s not as cut and dry as “we have this guy on video committing battery with a flashlight, of course he’s guilty”.
This is what Jacob Brown was charged with violating: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242
So if you want to claim this case is open and shut or cut and dry, you need to point to some element of that law Jacob violated and then explain how it’s so obvious he violated that element.
My first guess, and to be clear, I am speculating, is that they tried to prove Jacob battered Aaron because Aaron was black. That means proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Jacob doesn’t simply beat everyone up, which is very difficult to prove, especially since so many cops genuinely do simply beat everyone up.
So this is separate from him being charged for battery and possibly excessive force?
Yes.
We can only guess.
On an entirely unrelated note, here’s an article about Robert Fuller, who would later become leader of the Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Oh, what a strange coincidence. Monroe, Louisiana.
This is a federal case so all the filings and judicial decisions are up on pacer of anyone feels like looking.
Systemic issues. The problem is that the jury is probably correct that under current Louisiana laws this pig did nothing wrong technically. We all know it’s fucked up but we’ve allowed our laws to be shaped by the people who abuse them.
Whether he broke the law or not is completely irrelevant. 9 times out of 10, a jury in Louisiana is going to be composed of white racists who will always side with a white cop, because that’s the primary demographic of the state.
This was a federal civil rights case
God i hate Louisiana. Just a resource colony with the resource curse, sports, and parades…
Aren’t juries great
#ACAB always and forever
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