Trooper Hits Black Motorist 18 Times With A Flashlight, Calling It 'Pain Compliance'

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https://www.npr.org/2021/08/25/1030977804/trooper-hits-black-motorist-18-times-flashlight-pain-compliance

MONROE, La. — Graphic body camera video kept secret for more than two years shows a Louisiana State Police trooper pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight — an attack the trooper defended as "pain compliance."

"I'm not resisting! I'm not resisting!" Aaron Larry Bowman can be heard screaming between blows on the footage obtained by The Associated Press. The May 2019 beating following a traffic stop left him with a broken jaw, three broken ribs, a broken wrist and a gash to his head that required six staples to close.

Bowman's encounter near his Monroe home came less than three weeks after troopers from the same embattled agency punched, stunned and dragged another Black motorist, Ronald Greene, before he died in police custody on a rural roadside in northeast Louisiana. Video of Greene's death similarly remained under wraps before AP obtained and published it earlier this year.

Federal prosecutors are examining both cases in a widening investigation into police brutality and potential cover-ups involving both troopers and state police brass.

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[secondwind]

1. K&R

[LanternWaste]

2. K&R, nt

[Demovictory9]

3. Kick

[captain queeg]

4. Years ago I was on a job out of country. There were 4 of us

One guy was black. His wife came too and we’d all give her our per diem and she cooked and did our laundry at the crew house we were staying in. I was talking to her one night. She was from Alabama and met Charlie, my coworker in WA where our company was from. Fairly liberal on the PNW, at least in cities. She told me they’d done a road trip to see her family and how scared she was for Charlie because “he didn’t know how to act in the south” and was afraid he’d get the shit best out of him. That was awhile ago but I guess it hasn’t changed.

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5. "Pain compliance" also known as torture

And if he'd killed Mr. Bowman, you bet that Trooper Jason Brown would have had a lawyer pop out to explain to all us proles the intricate ins and outs of excited delirium syndrome as the reason Bowman died.

Edited to add this from the original NPR story:

Before resigning in March, Brown tallied 23 use-of-force incidents dating to 2015 — 19 of them targeting Black people, according to state police records.

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6. Not only assault and battery, but also a possible conspiracy among him and his fellow officers.