Lawsuit Accuses State Police of Cover-up in DeSoto Parish Sheriff’s Office Beating

Lawsuit accuses State Police of cover-up in DeSoto Parish Sheriff’s Office beating

A brass relief sculpture of state troopers at the entrance of Louisiana State Police headquarters in Baton Rouge. (Greg LaRose/Louisiana Illuminator) Attorneys representing Jarius Brown, a man who was beaten to the point of hospitalization by the DeSoto Parish Sheriff’s Office in September 2019, are accusing the Louisiana State Police of helping to cover it up. Late last month, attorneys representing Brown in a four-year-old lawsuit against one …

Lawsuit accuses Louisiana State Police of cover-up in DeSoto jail beating