Officers Plead Not Guilty in Ronald Greene’s Arrest

Mona Hardin, (C), mother of Ronald Greene, addresses members of the media outside the Union Parish Courthouse in Farmerville, La., on April 11, 2023. Nancy Bergeron/Ruston Daily Leader via AP

FARMERVILLE, La.—Five Louisiana law enforcement officers pleaded not guilty Tuesday to state crimes in the 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene.

The arraignment came nearly five months after a grand jury handed up a list of charges ranging from negligent homicide to obstruction and malfeasance, the first indictments related to Greene’s death on a roadside in rural northeast Louisiana.