Barney Lee Green

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.