The CBS Evening News ran a story entitled “Baton Rouge reaches $35,000 settlement with family after police strip-searched teen and entered home without warrant.” On May 27, 2021, BRPD’s mistreatment of the Green Family first became a national news story. One of the officers involved in the stop and search, Ken Camallo, was demoted from sergeant to corporal and suspended two and one-half months, according to a STORY in The Baton Rouge Advocate on Wednesday. Jackson excoriated the government for its actions, writing that “the state agents in this case demonstrated a serious and wanton disregard for defendant’s constitutional rights, first by initiating a traffic stop on the thinnest of pretext, and then by haphazardly invading Defendant’s home (weapons drawn) to conduct an unjustified, warrantless search.” Body worn camera footage of the stop and search was entered into the public record, and all charges against Green were dismissed.įrampton, of the University of Virginia School of Law, stepped in to represent the Green family in a civil rights lawsuit against BRPD, and quickly settled the case for $35,000. In a December 2020 order, federal judge Brian A. Only Clarence Green was charged with any crime. The case arises out of a 2020 stop and search by Baton Rouge police officers of Louisiana resident Clarence Green and his younger brother, a juvenile. He argues that the city is trying to put him in jail for contempt of a proceeding that never existed. University of Virginia law professor Thomas Frampton on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Baton Rouge asking the court to stop what Frampton describes as the City of Baton Rouge’s retaliation against his freedom of speech.
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