BATON ROUGE, Louisiana. – LSU receiver Koy Moore’s attorney for a video from the Baton Rouge police camera coincided with his client’s allegations of police harassment.
“It’s not the same,” Ryan Thompson said Thursday from the Baton Rouge public defender’s workplace. “It’s 100% correct. It’s inexplicable. Two young college students are about to get into their own vehicle and move on to Cane’s. Then 4 white cops get out of the car armed. “
Thompson, who represents Moore, said he allowed him to see the images, courtesy of Police Chief Paul Murphy. He’s looking to make the photographs public and is contemplating civil action against the police department.
Moore’s accusations on his Twitter account following an incident in Sunday morning led to three officials being placed on administrative leave Monday through Paul, pending an internal affairs investigation.
Moore described four officials harassing him and Alabama’s Traeshon Holden receiver in a parking lot in an apartment complex near the LSU campus. Thompson said they were looking to leave the complex after 1:30 a. m. to pick up something to eat at the end toby Raising Cane restaurant, which is open until 3:30 a. m.
Officers say, “Where are the guns?”The two young men did not say or do anything to justify this point of strength,” Thompson said. “And there were no weapons or drugs. “
Police were responding to a complaint about loud music at a party on the roof of the apartment complex populated by LSU academics with about two hundred people, according to a police report.
“These little children weren’t at the party, ” said Thompson. “They weren’t drunk. These children are well-oiled machines. They seemed alert. Police didn’t say they smelled like marijuana or alcohol and didn’t ask them if they’d been just drinking, ‘Where are the guns?Where are the drugs?'”
Moore said one of the officials opened Moore’s pants for a gun, and Moore said he felt raped.
Holden, a freshman for Crimson Tide, is a friend of Moore’s from the elite prospect camps they went to in combination while being recruited to high school. Holden attended Narbonne High School in Harbor City, California, near Los Angeles.
Moore is a partner who signed with LSU as a four-star hope of Rummel High in Metairie.
Thompson doesn’t make up Holden, but he’s talked to his circle of relatives about the incident.
LSU and Alabama had open dates last Saturday, and players from both groups had left for the weekend. Holden visited Moore in Baton Rouge. They were betting video games until Saturday night and early Sunday morning, Thompson said.
LSU and Alabama were scheduled to play at Tiger Stadium on Saturday, but the game was postponed due to a recent COVID-19 outbreak on the LSU team. The Southeast Conference is looking to locate a date to postpone the game.
Moore told Thompson that the harassment only stopped when he and Holden said they were football players. None of the players were arrested.
“I play football. I’m going to train O,” Thompson told the police in the video, referring to LSU coach Ed Orgeron.
“Then he stopped, ” said Thompson.
Orgeron talked about the incident on Monday.
“I met with koy and his mother this morning to find out precisely what happened,” Orgeron said. “We are doing everything we can for Koy and his family. There is no position in America for racism or social injustice. I need to thank Chief Paul Murphy for acting temporarily and investigating this matter. “
Thompson implemented for public recording so that the audience can watch the body camera video. Baton Rouge police have not yet made it public as it is not considered a serious or critical incident because no one was physically injured and the police did not fire. In similar non-critical cases, Baton Rouge police have delayed the release of body camera videos.
“Let’s throw the body camera, ” said Thompson. ” I doubt it will be published in the next few days, but we’re headed for that. “
Thompson said he could see it “because Baton Rouge police chief Murphy Paul has been very transparent with the mayor (Sharon Weston Broome). “