Will Murder, Cover Up Bring Down JBE?

By Woody Jenkins, Editor, Central City News — CENTRAL — If Gov. John Bel Edwards is impeached as some legislators want to do, his handling of the Ronald Greene case will certainly play a large role. The case involves the murder of a motorist and a coverup directly caused by the governor.

Greene failed to stop when told to do so by a State Police officer. He led the police on a chase at speeds of 115 miles per hour.  

Police body cam videos show that once stopped Ronald Greene cooperated and did not resist arrest.  Nevertheless, with six State Police and one Sheriff’s deputy on hand, some of the State Police began to beat Greene until he died.  All the while, Greene was saying he was sorry and begging for mercy. Near the end of the incredible ordeal, Greene is shown being drug face down across the street with his hands cuffed behind his back.

He died a few minutes later.

The next morning, records obtained by the Associated Press show that the governor received a text message saying that Greene had died as a result of “a very violent struggle.”

Nevertheless, the police report of the incident said something totally different.  It said Greene died as a result of a car crash.  No mention at all of a violent struggle.

The coroner’s report from the Union Parish coroner’s office also said Greene’s death was the result of a car crash.

However, the report by the emergency room physician who received Greene’s body at the hospital was very different.  The ER doctor said Greene’s injuries were completely inconsistent with what he would have received in a car crash, especially since Greene had two stun pellets lodged in his turso.  People killed in a car crash aren’t usually shot with a stun gun.

Over the next nearly two years, the State Police and the governor persisted in saying Greene was killed as a result of a car crash, even though the seven officers present knew that was a lie, and so did the governor!  

The highest ranking officer present at the killing of Ronald Greene was Lt. John Clary  He had his body cam on during the entire event and recorded it all.  However, after the event, he reported that his body cam didn’t work and that there was no video.

Months later, the bodycam video was discovered, and it revealed the entire sordid event.

Lt. Clary it seems is well known to Gov. John Bel Edwards. In fact, they have been filmed together on the field at Tiger Stadium.  Lt. Clary is apparently often with the governor and no doubt shares with him vital State Police information.

One of the troopers on the scene was fired for his behavior in another crime scene. The state trooper who drug Greene across the road was killed in a one-car traffic accident in 2021.  However, none of the officers at the scene of Greene’s murder have been arrested or charged with anything.

And Lt. Clary, the governor’s friend who hid the body cam video of the murder?  He too has never been charged with anything and is still on the job in a supervisory position.  As recently as last June 2021, the Speaker of the House, Rep. Clay Schexnayder, met with the governor on the killing of Ronald Greene. The Speaker told the governor the entire matter should be investigated.  But the governor said the matter was closed because Greene died in a car accident!  This was long after Edwards had sat with the Greene family and reviewed the video! Greene’s family and all Louisianians need the governor to tell the truth.  Government actors who murder our citizens must go to jail and so must those who cover up their wrongdoing!