The city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, earlier this month reached a $35,000 settlement with a man police strip searched along with his 16-year-old brother before entering their mother's home with guns drawn and without a warrant.
Clarence Green spent five months in prison after he was pulled over without explanation on New Year's Day 2020, according to a complaint he and his mother filed against the city, East Baton Rouge Parish, the Baton Rouge Police Department, and six officers one year later.
Body camera video shared with NBC News by Green's lawyer showed Green standing outside of a car with his shirt open and his pants down. The officer who was searching him pulled the elastic front strap of Green's underwear forward and looked inside, the video showed.
"You can’t do that bro," Green protested.
"I can," the officer said.
Video showed officers also strip searched Green's 16-year-old brother, who has not been identified.
With Green and his brother handcuffed in the back of a patrol car, officers then drove to Green's mother's home and, with guns drawn, went upstairs where she was with her 10-year-old grandson and threatened her with arrest if she did not allow them to search her apartment, according to the complaint. The officers did not have a warrant to search the apartment.
The body camera video showed that once the mother was outside with her sons, an officer told her he was going to take a swab of her 16-year-old son's cheek with a q-tip.
The 16-year-old answered "no," to which an officer responded "Shut your mouth or I’m going to put you in the car and put you in detention and your mom won’t have a choice."
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