So BRPD has a torture warehouse

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BATON ROUGE — A Baton Rouge Police Officer has resigned as of Tuesday morning, just one day after a lawsuit was filed in federal court claiming that specific BRPD officer used a “torture warehouse.”

Multiple BRPD sources confirm Troy Lawrence Jr. put in his resignation on Aug. 29. It comes while the officer was already on administrative leave for previous alleged incidents that were also under investigation.

The lawsuit was filed in Baton Rouge in federal court on Aug. 28 by a lawyer based out of Virginia, Thomas Frampton.

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The lawsuit also claims BRPD has a “torture warehouse” where Officer Lawrence allegedly took an arrestee, severely beat him and then doctored a “false police report accusing the arrestee of attempting to escape from the torture warehouse.”

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That alleged incident was on Jan. 9, 2023 where 21-yr-old Jeremy Lee was arrested “without reasonable suspicion or probable cause.” The victim is said to have been “yelling in pain” while Officer Lawrence and his partner searched him. The suit claims while Lee was on the ground in handcuffs, Officer Lawrence told him “I’m about to bat the living crap out of you.”

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That’s when Lee is said to have told the officer to turn on his body camera.

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A crowd had formed by this time where Officer Lawrence allegedly taunted people, bragged about how much money he had, nearly got into a physical fight with others before his fellow officers had to separate Lawrence from the crowd. The suit said one officer “explicitly told him to ‘chill out’.”

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At this time, Officer Lawrence is accused of taking Lee to the “torture warehouse” instead of parish prison. While at the warehouse, the officer and others “repeatedly punched and kicked Mr. Lee.” The suit says Lee was so badly beaten that East Baton Rouge Parish Prison refused to accept him. It’s why he was taken to a hospital where the suit claims he was “diagnosed with broken ribs and other physical injuries as a result of his beating.”

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