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BATON ROUGE- It's been nearly three years since Ronald Greene died in Louisiana State Police custody, and the agency has not fired anyone for his death or the subsequent cover-up. But the organization did fire the trooper who blew the whistle on it.

Trooper Carl Cavalier formally appealed his termination Tuesday, 24 hours after State Police fired him.

Last June, Cavalier sat down with the WBRZ Investigative Unit to talk about what was going on at his place of employment. During the interview, Cavalier brought a portion of Trooper Albert Paxton's notes which detailed a cover-up tied to the death of Ronald Greene.

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Greene led troopers on a high-speed chase through the Monroe area before he was stopped. When he exited his vehicle, he was alive and apologizing. That's when body camera videos, which leaked two years after his death, show he was brutally beaten.

See the Ronald Greene case timeline here.

Cavalier was fired Monday. State Police cited the WBRZ interview, his lack of "loyalty" to the department, making public statements and dissemination of information.

"The message it sends is you can kill somebody, right, commit horrific acts—what the governor calls criminal acts—nothing will happen to you," Attorney Jill Craft said. "But, the guy who says the emperor has no clothes... you're fired."

Tuesday, Governor John Bel Edwards held a news conference distancing himself from the Greene case. During that news...

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