The Louisiana Law Enforcement Association says once all of the facts come out, four Shreveport police officers indicted for negligent homicide in the death of a mentally disturbed man will be exonerated. A grand jury handed down the indictments last week and LLEA director Chris Stewart says Caddo District Attorney James Stewart has mismanaged the case.
“There are things that have been deceitful and not necessarily the full story at all,” said Chris Stewart.
James Stewart says 44-year-old Tommie McGlothen’s death in April could have been prevented. There’s video evidence of officers wrestling, hitting, and tazing McGlothen, who was then left in the back of a police cruiser for 48-minutes, largely unsupervised. Chris Stewart says the public has an incomplete picture of what happened.
“The things are there, it’s obvious, you have to be very close to the case to know, but I can’t really go that far right now,” said Chris Stewart.
Because the case has yet to go to trial, Chris Stewart says he can’t provide specific reasons on why the officers will be exonerated, but he’s confident that will be the outcome.
“We feel that justice will be done and we’ll be vindicated,” said Stewart.
The four officers facing charges are 28-year-old Treona McCarter, 27-year-old Brian Matthew Ross, 27-year-old James LeClare and 25-year-old D’Marea Johnson.
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