Mr Bowman, now 46, was charged with resisting a police officer by force or violence, battery of a police officer, flying over an officer and improper lane use. He pleaded not guilty.
A crime report filed with the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office said Mr Bowman had ignored the lights and sirens of a deputy who tried to pull over after the SUV Mr Bowman had crossed the midline of the road. The deputy said Mr Bowman had hit him on the head with a fist and fought with him after telling officers that he was afraid to pull over and wanted to park the vehicle at his home in case he went to jail.
A spokesman for the Louisiana State Police said last month that an investigation had determined that Mr. Brown’s body-camera footage was “deliberately mislabeled.”
The AP, citing state police records, reported that Mr Brown, who is white, was involved in 23 cases involving the use of force, 19 of which targeted black people in 2015-19.
Just weeks before the violent encounter with Mr. Bowman, troops from the Louisiana State Police were assigned to Troop F in Monroe. dragged, beaten and used a stun gun on another black man, Ronald Green. The encounter with Mr Green, who was killed on his way to the hospital, was also captured in body-camera footage.
State police initially told Mr Green’s relatives that he had died from injuries sustained in a car accident, with no mention of force by soldiers.
Mr. Brown is among the four soldiers assigned to Troop F, which were arrested earlier this year It is alleged that during the arrest he used excessive force and disabled his body cameras.