Your editorial concerning the current grand jury indictments within the Ronald Greene case was “spot on.” Union Parish District Lawyer John Belton is to be recommended for “doing one thing” about Greene’s wrongful dying, in the end.
However there stays extra arduous work to be achieved by prosecutors, and extra proof to be introduced to a federal or state grand jury. Belton focused “the straightforward pickings,” particularly “regulation enforcement officers” who may (and will) have been charged with crimes, “sooner.”
Whereas your editors appropriately acknowledged that: “It’s troublesome to flee the conclusion that State Police brass tried to whitewash Greene’s dying,” the very best rank charged by Belton was a captain. The place are the indictments for “prime brass,” like colonel, lieutenant colonel and main (and even “authorized affairs officers”)?
What was achieved to Greene on a state freeway in Union Parish on Might 10, 2019, and the “cover-up” which adopted, is simply “the tip of the iceberg.” With out extra federal or state Indictments of former “State Police brass” for obstructing justice (and maybe RICO expenses, as properly), the Louisiana State Police will stay liable to the cost of being “a racketeering enterprise” that murdered Greene.
ASHTON O’DWYER
lawyer
Houston, Texas
