 A Louisiana grand jury has accused eight police officers of using excessive force in arresting two men after a chase in January. A district attorney said Tuesday that a grand jury charged each officer on Monday with one count of malfeasance in office. Prosecutors have dropped all charges against Chico Bell and Damon Robinson, the men who were arrested, because of unnecessary force, Attorney James Stewart Sr. said in a news release. Shreveport Police Chief Ben Raymond said his office began investigating the incident the day of the arrest. All parties are innocent until proven guilty and in order to preserve the officers rights to due process I will not make any further comments at this time, he said in an emailed statement. Mayor Adrian Perkins said, The nation is going through a reckoning because, in the past, officers were too infrequently held accountable for bad policing, news outlets reported. He wrote that his administration expects to have body cameras for police by the end of the summer. The eight officers have bonded out of jail, Stewart said. All are on leave, said Sgt. Angie Willhite, a police spokeswoman. Stewart said during an online news conference that cases involving the separate deaths of two Black men while in Shreveport Police custody are not yet ready to present to a grand jury, and he could not say when that would occur. We are playing catch-up on two months without grand juries because of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, he said. A separate news release described the allegations against officers Aaron Jaudon, 29, DAndre Jackson, 24, Mark Ordoyne, 25, William Isenhour, 23, Christopher McConnell, 35, Brandon Walker, 27, Treveion Brooks, 24, and David Francis, 45. Brooks, who is African American, was investigated after shooting a... 