Baron Pikes, a black man tasered to death in Winnfield Louisiana
July 19, 2008
*UPDATE July 24, 2008. Listen to my interview with the man that first broke this story, radio host Tony Brown of Louisiana by clicking here http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/LTHSpecialReport.html
WINNFIELD, La. At 1:28 p.m. last Jan. 17, Baron “Scooter” Pikes was a healthy 21-year-old man. By 2:07 p.m., he was dead.
What happened in the 39 minutes in between during which Pikes was handcuffed by local police and shocked nine times with a Taser by officer Scott Nugent, while reportedly pleading for mercy —is now spawning fears of a political coverup in this backwoods Louisiana lumber town infamous for backroom dealings.
Some points of this case include:
Cops tried to cover it up by accusing Pikes of being on drugs or had asthma which led to his death.
The case is rekindling racial tensions because Pikes was black and the officer who repeatedly Tasered him is white,
And in a bizarre coincidence, Pikes turns out to have been a first cousin of Mychal Bell, the lead defendant in the Jena 6 case.
Read the entire article here: http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html
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