Diane Hildebrant (on behalf of her 15-year-old son Gregory Ward)
An LSPD officer responded to an assault complaint. The victim's mother alleged the officer made judgmental, racially loaded comments about her biracial son's "large, poofy" hair and clothing, threatened the 15-year-old with jail, and let the suspect overhear the entire interview.
- Corporal Chad Wells
What the file shows
Hildebrant told Sgt. Barnes that Cpl. Wells's comments to Gregory targeted his hair and his clothing, and that both she and Gregory experienced them as racist. She specifically said the officer threatened Gregory with jail if he didn't change his story — which Wells admitted he did, framing it as "lying is a crime."
Wells also failed to separate the suspect from the witness during interview: Hildebrant reports the assailant was standing close enough to hear the conversation and Wells did not ask her to leave. Gregory's written statement changed under that pressure to say he had been in his room and seen nothing.
Despite all of this being logged on the BlueTeam complaint as "Courtesy / Disrespect," the disposition is "Complaint Rejected" — meaning no bias allegation was ever even classified, much less investigated. The file then attaches the property manager's emails complaining about Hildebrant herself, framing the complainant as a problem tenant.
Why this file matters
Gregory Ward is one of the named children in the suppressed-racial-complaints set. Sgt. Barnes's narrative effectively launders Wells's threats against a Black minor into a paperwork dispute about "telling the truth." The complainant explicitly framed her concern as racial; LSPD chose the milder, non-racial allegation label.