BRPD Being Sued for Excessive Force

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The officers, members of the Baton Rouge Police Department’s Special Response Team, were looking for marijuana and anything else that might be pertinent to an investigation into whether drugs were being dealt from the Lila Avenue home off GSRI Avenue between Gardere Lane and Nicholson Drive, according to police documents.


“I thought I was going to faint from the amount of blood I lost that day,” said Percle, who lives in New Orleans. “While I was on the ground in handcuffs, bleeding, one officer decided to play the drums,” which were among several instruments in the house, Percle said.

Officers ridiculed Percle, he said, calling him a jack-o’-lantern. On several occasions, Percle said, officers walked up to him and asked, “How did you lose your teeth?” One suggested his teeth must have been rotten before the beating, Percle said, while another told him he must have slipped and fallen.

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