In June 2024, five white Louisiana police officers charged in the death of Black man Ronald Greene will be tried in Union Parish. It should be an open-and-shut case, right? I mean, there’s body camera footage that shows cops—who claimed Greene died when his car crashed at the end of a highspeed chase—were tasing, beating and dragging Greene, causing injuries a medical examiner confirmed couldn’t have been caused by an automobile wreck. (Not that we needed that confirmation. As far as I know, cars are not equipped with tasers and fists.)
Unfortunately, this case is far from a slam dunk. It turns out, Union Parish is, apparently, a largely Caucasian bastion of “blue lives matter” bootlickers and Confederate monument-humpers, and the racism there is so thick that the Black district attorney felt compelled to hire a white stand-in to prosecute the case, according to the Associated Press. And that’s not the worst of it. It appears that the most competent white attorney with a reputation for winning they could find is also a racist “back the blue” acolyte and Klan stan who has displayed a “comply or die” attitude regarding instances of police brutality in the past.
From AP:
But Hugo Holland’s background is also marked by accusations of racial bias, including new claims uncovered by The Associated Press, that make him an unlikely advocate for racial justice. In fact, he says the concept has no place in the Greene case or anywhere in the justice system.
“Justice is justice,” Holland told the AP. “It doesn’t make any difference what race the offender or the victim is. F——— race has got nothing to do with it.”
Holland drew criticism as a local prosecutor for displaying a portrait in his office of Confederate general and early KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest. He once sent a fellow lawyer an email joking about chasing down “a Black guy or a Mex-can.” And he wrote the judge in the 2021 Kyle Rittenhouse…
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