Louisiana governor condemns police in Ronald Greene death

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Tuesday denounced the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene as "regrettable," criticizing the state troopers who repeatedly stunned, choked and punched the Black motorist, and also chiding officers who stood by but failed to intervene.

"I wouldn't have been disturbed had I thought it was professional, had I thought those officers had performed as they should — they did not," Edwards told reporters at the state Capitol in Baton Rouge, offering his most extensive remarks yet on the controversy. "They don't represent what we aspire to in the state of Louisiana, at the Louisiana State Police, especially once Mr. Greene was not just in custody but was restrained," he added of the troopers involved. "They were not professional. They did not conduct themselves as a law enforcement officer should, and quite frankly I'm disappointed in officers who were on the scene who didn't intervene as well. That evidences a lack of professionalism also."