Louisiana payout cannot erase pain of Ronald Greene death by police –lawyer

Ben Crump says $4.85m police settlement over fatal traffic stop helps to show how truth must always come to light'

No amount of money can erase" the pain that motorist Ronald Greene's death at the hands of Louisiana police inflicted on his loved ones, but a $4.85m settlement which the state has agreed to pay his family helps illustrate how the truth must always come to light", their attorney has said.

Ben Crump recently expressed those sentiments in a statement that served as one of his and his clients' first public reactions to news first reported by the Guardian that mediation talks on 12 May had yielded a settlement between Louisiana authorities and Greene's family.