Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry
By now, we doubt that anyone would challenge the fact that, if he deems the situation to warrant it, Sound Off Louisiana founder Robert Burns has no qualms lambasting Louisiana State Police (LSP).
By the same token, if Burns has compelling evidence that a trooper has been falsely maligned, he has no qualms exposing the truth as was done in this January 12, 2024 feature showing just what a farce the indictment against former LSP Lt. John Clary was.
Numerous folk have asked Burns to provide his take on the Kyren Lacy matter. We’re not going to provide a link to any news feature on Lacy because anyone unfamiliar with it simply pays no attention whatsoever to the news or even social media because the matter was bantered about ad nauseum about three weeks ago.
Today, Wednesday, October 22, 2025, Burns opted to create a fairly brief video outlining his rationale for why he firmly believes that LSP deserves a grade of “A” in its handling of the Lacy matter. Here it is:
10/22/25: Burns provides his take on the Kyren Lacy matter.
In the above video, Burns said that he would place the computational numbers on the screen; however, we feel it’s better to present them in the text of this feature:
80 mph (Lacy rambling down wrong lane) + 49 mph (Vehicle 2 headed in correct lane directly at Lacy) = 129 mph.
129/mph x 5,280 feet/mile = 681,120 feet/hour.
681,120 feet/hour / 3 = 227,040 yards/hour.
227,040 yards/hour / 3,600 (number of seconds in an hour) = 63.07 yards/second!!!
92 yards / 63.07 yards/second = 1.46 seconds, which is the amount of time the driver of Vehicle 2 had to react to Lacy’s reckless operation.
As noted in the football analogy on the above video, Kyren Lacy (placed at offensive tackle) engaged in a “false start” by his reckless operation of his vehicle, and he absolutely and unquestionably caused “encroachment” by the defense (driver of Vehicle # 2 who reacted to Lacy “false start”). That penalty goes against the offense (Lacy) notwithstanding the fact that the defense (Vehicle # 2) came across the line of scrimmage. For us, Matt Ory’s obsession of Lacy being “back in his lane” is immaterial and irrelevant! It’s no different than if a tackle returned to his three-point stand in the football analogy. The flag (arrest warrant) was totally and completely justified!
The big difference between what Lacy did on that highway and what would happen on a football field is that, rather than a five-yard penalty, a man lost his life!
Now, having awarded LSP a grade of “A” on the Lacy matter, it changes not the fact that LSP still warrants a grade of “F” on trustworthiness and transparency. Further evidence of that fact has arisen this week on at least two fronts. First, pill shopping trooper Michael Reichardt, who got his suspension for said act reduced from 720 hours (the maximum) to 360 hours by the Louisiana State Police Commission (LSPC), has now been accused of stealing money from the Louisiana State Trooper’s Association (LSTA) and has been allowed the privilege of retiring.
A highly reliable source told us at the time of the LSPC’s generosity extended toward Reichardt (agreeing to drop the hours of suspension from 720 to 360) that, were the deal not cut, Reichardt was prepared to expose highly embarrassing material on other matters entailing LSP.
That same claim was previously said about Trooper Daniel Fontenot, for whom the LSPC declined to summarily dismiss his case for turning ON his body-worn camera to avoid future conflict with a colleague whom he felt a need to counsel due to alleged shortcomings. We made it clear in prior posts that we firmly believe that the charge against Fontenot was “absurd,” and we even went so far as to say that then-Col. Lamar Davis’ act of imposing that discipline may have demonstrated that he was, “the most incompetent LSP Col. in LSP’s history.”
At any rate, once the LSPC declined to summarily dismiss Fontenot’s charges, he actually subsequently presented a list of some 20-30 witnesses for an LSPC hearing during which we fully anticipate he would have exposed an absolute plethora of wrongdoings at Troop D. Perhaps not unexpectedly, LSP and Fontenot came to a mutually aggregable resolution in pretty short order!
It really is a sad state of affairs when almost no trooper who has been around any length of time need fear discipline because he or she can merely open up pandora’s box of other problematic acts at an LSPC hearing!
Secondly, our site viewers may recall our feature on Col. Hodges’ propensity to “cut deals” to avoid the publicity of LSPC hearings. One of those “deals” was with Trooper Mathew Clair.
Clair received a 40-hour suspension for excessive use of force; however, LSP Col. Robert Hodges, in asserting that Clair had received “improper training,” recommended to the LSPC that his suspension be rescinded and that it be replaced with a Letter of Counseling (which is not discipline) and that the suspension be expunged from his record. Here is video in its entirety of the LSPC going along with Hodges’ recommendation:
3/14/24 LSPC meeting during which Col. Hodges’ deal entailing Mathew Clair was approved by the LSPC.
For reasons that we don’t know (but for which we trust are solid), WAFB’s (Channel 9 in Baton Rouge) Chris Nakamoto has been pursuing the video of the Clair incident, and he has been denied at every front.
According to Nakamoto (watch the video on the link above) LSP has stated that, “The trooper’s right to privacy is deemed to exceed the public’s right to know.”
At the end of the day, the buck stops at the top, and that would be LA-1, Gov. Jeff Landry.
Since this is the approach Landry’s folk have consistently taken regarding public records, which prompted us to reference him as a “used car lemon who needs to be returned to the lot,” we say that, when it comes time for Landry’s reelection efforts in 2027, voters simply need to say, “We deem our right to public information and transparency exceeds your right to serve another term as Governor.”
In analyzing this just-released JMC Analytics poll, it sure is looking like Gov. Landry’s favorability has taken a major nosedive, and he’s got very serious problems in his home base of the Acadiana area. We guess it’s tough when the home crowd turns on you, something Brian Kelly just may endure this Saturday in Tiger Stadium.
