Mona Hardin, mother of Ronald Greene addresses Senate Select Committee on State Police Oversight, December 13, 202.
The mother of Ronald Greene addressed members of the Senate Select Committee on State Police Oversight about the death of her son during a traffic stop in Union Parish in May of 2019. Mona Hardin said there’s no excuse for the length of time it’s taken to find out the truth about Greene’s death.
“I’m sitting in a room with so many people of power, and in the midst of all this it seems to be so hard to get answers,” said Hardin.
Hardin was initially told her son died from injuries sustained in a car crash but then police body camera footage, released two years later, indicated otherwise that Greene was beaten while in handcuffs as he plead for his life. Hardin held back tears as she addressed the committee.
“I’m so damn mad at the fact that I’m talking to people who have it in their power to make things happen and it’s still a formal procedure. I don’t understand that. We’re still having words behind the murder of my son,” said Hardin.
Roland Greene
The oversight committee requested last week that Superintendent of LSP Colonel Lamar Davis have the officers who were involved with the arrest of Greene attend Monday’s meeting, but none appeared. Hardin said they need to be held accountable.
“The answers are right here, and it shouldn’t be so hard, so difficult, to have those that killed my son to be brought to justice,” said Hardin.
Hardin said her family has been torn apart since the death of her son and asked the committee what is it going to take for the State of Louisiana to stop allowing men like her son to be killed.
“Ronnie’s not the first, Ronnie’s not the last but why do we have to sugarcoat the murder of a man just to get people off the hook,” Hardin questioned the committee.
The FBI is investigating Greene’s death and whether State Police tried to cover the incident up.
To hear some of her testimony click below.
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