A black Louisiana police officer who blamed his colleagues for the murder of Ronald Green said he had been informed he would be fired, according to CNN.
Carl Cavalier was interviewed by CNN’s WBRZ-TV subsidiary in Baton Rouge last summer to describe what he thought was an internal cover to protect the soldiers involved in Green’s death.
Green died in May 2019 amid a police chase with the Louisiana State Police (LSP) near the city of Monroe. Green’s family said police told them Green had died in a car crash, but video from the body camera and dash camera video released publicly two years later showed that Green had been hit, kicked and hit. by cops before he died in custody.
Shortly after the video was released, Cavalier said he believed there should be arrests in Green’s death and said the people involved were “unpunished” and “still patrolling the streets.” “In my eyes, we still have killers at work,” he said.
Two of the soldiers involved were accused of not following procedures for body-worn cameras, and a third was suspended for violations on a number of issues, including the use of force. This officer died in a car accident before being fired, according to LSP Colonel Colonel Lamar Davis.
Since then, Cavalier has made several media appearances criticizing the department’s work on Green’s case. He subsequently left the department.
“Trooper Cavalier received the decision of the appointing authority to proceed with the termination based on an administrative investigation, which revealed that he had violated several policies of the departments,” said Louisiana state spokeswoman Melissa Matthew in an email to the Washington Post. “It should be noted that our disciplinary administrative process was not completed and Cavalier remained an employee at the time.”
Cavalier was under internal investigation, he revealed. The information was in a termination letter he received from State Police Chief Lamar Davis
The internal investigation, according to a letter received from CNN, alleges that Cavalier violated the department’s policies regarding “Public statements”, “Legal orders”, “Loyalty to the department”, “Dissemination of information”, “Publicity seeking” and “Behavior”. Impossibility to become an officer. “
Cavalier filed a lawsuit in September against the LSP, claiming that his complaints had been ignored and that several of his superiors had discriminated against him racially for years.
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