On November 9, 1980, officer Gregory Neupert was shot and killed in
Algiers, New Orleans, and witnesses reported seeing two white men flee the scene. Detective Oris Buckner, the only Black homicide detective in the department, was invited to participate in the beatings. Buckner briefly took part by slapping Davis across the face once. After trying to stop other officers from continuing, Buckner was removed from the interrogation. The officers then brought Davis and Brownlee to a bridge, where they were further
coerced into identifying James Billy Jr. and Reginald Miles as the people who shot officer Neupert. Due to the media attention and resignation of police superintendent James Parsons, the trial was moved to Dallas. In March 1983, three of the seven officers were found guilty, John E. McKenzie, Dale Bonura, and Stephen Farrar. The killing of Gregory Neupert was never solved, and nobody was ever charged in the deaths in Reginald Miles, James Billy Jr., Sherry Singleton, or Raymond Ferdinand. ==References==