Barney Lee Green

How they died

Less-than-lethal force

An officer conducted a traffic stop on a other occupied by Green. Green chewed something in his mouth, then tried to wash it down with a drink of water. The officer told Green to put his hands on the wheel. Green did not. The officer pepper-sprayed and tasered Green, handcuffed him, and told him to spit up what he was chewing. Green refused. The officer tasered him again, then put him into a patrol other. Green later died of what was characterized as acute cocaine toxicity.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Barney Lee Green, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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