Louisiana Voice

His missives first began popping up in the LouisianaVoice email inbox. More like a manifest, the messages were far-ranging charges of racism and discrimination within the fraternity more commonly known as Louisiana State Police. The messages first began appearing during the tenure of former LSP Superintendent Kevin Reeves.

The first several messages contained some serious charges that were easy to dismiss as the rants of a malcontent, especially since they were sent out en masse under the moniker Toussaint Louverture, obviously not wishing to divulge his real identity as a black state trooper because to do so would be detrimental to his career path.

Toussaint Louverture, aka Francois-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, Toussaint L’Ouverture, or Toussaint Bréda, was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution who helped transform the country’s slave rebellion into a full-blown revolutionary movement, establishing him as the “Father of Haiti.”

LouisianaVoice did make a tentative inquiry early on of LSP brass and the official reaction was dismissive. Surely, things just couldn’t be as bad as this malcontent purported them to be.

But all those were before the beatings of blacks Aaron Bowman and Ronald Greene in TROOP F, Reeves’ old command which includes northeast Louisiana. Greene, of course, died as a result of his beating – and not, as the official report officially said, from injuries sustained when his vehicle struck a tree.

Troop F, sometimes referred to as F TROOP after the 1960s ABC sitcom about an inept calvary troop, has over the past couple of years become synonymous with racism and suddenly, Toussaint’s charges have taken on relevance and some measure of validation, particularly with the recent news that top brass at LSP may have attempted to obstruct the investigation into Greene’s May 2019 beating death in Union Parish and the subsequent cover-up of details of his death, also by LSP’s top command.

If four years of writing about the misadventures, mismanagement and malfeasance of the state’s top law enforcement agency has shown me one thing, it’s that Louisiana State Police is in desperate need of oversight from someone outside the department. Internal Affairs is a joke and the requirement that the LSP Superintendent be selected from within the ranks is no longer sustainable. Gov. John Bel Edwards should forget consulting with the Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association on every move involving LSP and bring in someone who can straighten this malignant agency out. It’s long past time that we should stop being embarrassed by our state police.

So, maybe it’s time someone listened to Toussaint Louverture and took him seriously rather than requesting to be unsubscribed to his emails as several recipients did immediately after today’s email went out.

With that in mind, following is his latest email:

We will not waste time saying “we told you so.” If anyone needs to check the validity of what we have been saying, look through our previous emails. 

What’s important now is everyone realizes that Lamar Davis, Chavez Cammon and Kenny Vanburen are the new leaders of the supreme tap-dancing team. No, we do not consider Lamar a “sellout.” He can’t be a sellout because he is performing exactly how he’s performed his entire career. Most of us have known him his entire career and he’s just as lost and ignorant to what’s going on as he’s always been. He made the perfect scapegoat and puppet for that position, so kudos to whoever made that chess move.

Now, we could go on and explain how these other guys are definitely sellouts but we will save that for private convos. Nevertheless, these guys had one job to do when they took office. They just didn’t fail miserably but went a step further and decided to put their freedom at risk by taking a trip to Union Parish in order to continue this murder coverup. 

Lamar came into the Colonel position and right out the gate put his puppet strings on display by saying he didn’t believe systematic racism existed at Louisiana State Police. Chavez entered the Colonel position with doubters already against him due to the fact that he was the head of Internal Affairs at the time of Greene’s murder. Chavez knew all of the dirty details of Greene’s murder and didn’t say a word about it. Kenny wasn’t mentioned in the trip to Union Parish but he seems to show up at the doorstep of every person who wishes to file suit against the department. His weapons of dissuasion seem to always be a Bible, overuse of the word “brother” and prayer.

(Side note: Understand that John Belton is a politician. So, if anyone were to come along and promise him support with his run for attorney general, he would probably sway whichever way he needed in order to obtain AG.)

The question remains, why would the supreme tap dancers, along with Doug Cain and Faye Morrison travel to Union Parish to dissuade DA John Belton from filing charges against those troopers? Several sources who had knowledge of the information say that Doug Cain was the most aggressive out of the bunch. We can’t imagine any man being intimidated by Doug but if it happened, so be it. This current administration has shown their lack of knowledge when it comes to leading this department but they had to know that criminal charges could possibly come from aggressively “coercing” a public official.

We have mentioned it in our previous emails that no one really wants three hots and a cot. There will not be any eyebrow arching appointments included for Doug Cain and the rest of you guys are just simply too old to serve jail time.

Information continues to surface that Governor John Bel Edwards had knowledge of the case and viewed the Greene video at most two weeks after the incident occurred. It is also important to note that Gov. Edwards was the commencement speaker at the University of Louisiana Monroe the next day after the day Ronald Greene was murdered. No one bothered to tell him a murder occurred? Is the Governor the reason why Chavez, Lamar, Faye and Doug are willing to risk their freedom to keep things covered? 

We are guessing the answer to those questions and many others will come out when individuals decide that their freedom is more important than hiding information. 

Until then, it’s fair to say that the department is imploding as John Peters from Troop F mentioned in his pathetic attempt at salvaging dignity prior to retiring. LSP has placed more resources into investigating employees who has nothing to do with the murder coverup than those who actually took part in it. Desperate attempts are being made to find “leaks” within the department. Unfortunately for them we are everywhere. Just ask some members of their divided administrative staff, who decided to stop giving us information after the heat was turned up a bit more. Until you guys do what is right by everyone, we will continue to put information out. 

The implosion of LSP was inevitable due to the foundation and practices it was built on. From nepotism, favoritism, racism and many other “isms” you can think of. Also, for the same reasons a consent decree is also inevitable. Aside from everything that’s now public knowledge, “isms” are alive and well in places like Internal Affairs and the legal affairs department.

Now that Faye Morrison is somewhat out of the picture and awaiting her criminal fate, Michelle Giroir and others are peacocking to be head of the degenerates. We can tie Internal Affairs together with legal affairs by pointing out the unjust treatment of others by both. But first let’s look at the individuals.

Let us take Michelle Giroir for example. Giroir has been, for the past 20 years, the primary advisor for LSP when it comes to issuing disciplinary actions to troopers. Now, one would assume that it would require the person in that position to be considered fair and as unbiased as possible. Well, Giroir has been proven to be one of the most biased and unfair persons who could hold the position. In 2012, a black paralegal, who was working in legal affairs, filed a lawsuit against Giroir. The paralegal’s name is Carla Popularas. Popularas claimed that Giroir discriminated against and harassed her. In 2015 Popularas won the lawsuit and was awarded damages. This should have prompted LSP to remove Giroir from her position but instead she remained and continued with her unfair treatment. In addition to Popularas, Giroir had a few other black employees file grievances and complaints against her. Everything stated here has been brought to Colonel Davis’s attention just as the previous administration was aware of it.

Enters feeble-minded Kevin Ducote from Internal Affairs. Conveniently his close friends are Michelle Giroir and Faye Morrison. Close enough to have Ducote’s daughter, an aspiring attorney, hang around the legal department for a while. Of course, there is nothing wrong with being close friends with your coworkers. But when Morrison and/or Giroir tells Ducote, when it comes to punishing Hollingsworth, he can only consider the flashlight strikes to the head of Ronald Greene, that is a problem. It’s truly a spineless move to allow someone to dictate your actions in an area they have no clue about. Kevin Ducote, as a Master Trooper, if you require someone to hold your hand after all of these years, maybe it’s time to retire or hand out uniforms in the supply department.

Side note: Ted James and the black caucus. Where exactly do all of you stand on this murder coverup. In our previous emails we have pointed out how awfully quiet you all were on this matter. Ted, we were particularly frustrated with you since we knew you viewed the Ronald Greene video long before it was public and long before anyone else had viewed the video. Yes, you stated that it was horrible but you did not follow up that statement with any action. Instead, you all waited, then after everything went public, you all demanded that reeves step down when he was already on his way out. You all then pushed Lamar Davis into the Colonel position and now it is clear that it was the wrong move and instead of demanding that Lamar Davis step down you double down on the mistake with hopes that John Belton changes his story. That letter to the United States Attorney General, Merrick Garland was a dog and pony show. What stands out to us is just days prior to that, most of the black caucus members were on the golf course with Governor John Bel Edwards smiling and taking photos instead of pushing the Governor to take real action towards this case. A black man by the name of Ronald Greene was murdered by Louisiana State Police. The “black” caucus’s position on the matter is questionable to say the least. There is a time to play politics and there is a time to put your foot down and fight!! Make your position on the matter clear.

        Continuing with Internal Affairs. Captain Treone Larvadain was heard complaining about being ready to go back to the governor’s mansion. Keeping a lid on all of this corruption could weigh heavy on anyone. It’s said she is only in place as the captain of Internal Affairs to keep her eyes on all investigations related to Ronald Greene. It’s also said that she is to report her findings back to Governor Edwards. To date, we are unaware of any meaningful work being done in Internal Affairs by Treone. Other than transferring Lieutenant Paul Chamorro into timeout for his unwillingness to “get with the program”, or violating policy to get revenge on Trooper Woodward, she just seems to be a listening ear. No, we don’t care for Woodward’s comments about Treone but why violate policy in an attempt to punish him. Besides, getting off that train that will lead to prison should be priority number one.

In closing, LSP appears to approve of murder-on-camera of African American citizens. Both the Reeves and Davis administrations have proven themselves unworthy of the public trust and completely incapable of leadership.