'That is not who I am as a person.” Louisiana's governor is denying that he delayed or interfered with investigations into the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene.
“I can’t imagine if Mr. Greene had been white he would have been treated that way,” an emotional Edwards told a news conference. “I think we have to acknowledge racism when we see it. We have to call it what it is.”
The governor’s news conference came just minutes after a heated, closed-door meeting with the Legislative Black Caucus that at times erupted with members cursing over his muted response to Greene’s deadly arrest. “This matter will not go away until there is an acknowledgement that there was a cover-up,” said another.
In his news conference, the governor also denied the state House speaker’s contention that he sought to discourage a legislative inquiry into the case last year by blaming Greene’s death on a car wreck.Edwards directly contradicted Rep. Clay Schexnayder’s account that Edwards told him just that in June and called his relationship with the powerful Republican House speaker “especially strained.”
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