Thursday, January 6, 2011

Police Misconduct: New Orleans Killings

Looting in the flooded streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, James Lee Burke's Louisiana
 
During Hurricane Katrina New Orleans was in a state of turmoil. There was a lot of violence going on. One day Six New Orleans police officers was said to have killed two unarmed civilians a few days after the flood.
This case is known as the Danziger Bridge case. The shooting led to two innocent civilians dead and four wounded badly. These were two totally different shootings that took place on September 4 of 2005. This led to the officers following up with a guilty pleas and them admitting to trying to cover up the shootings.
 
 

1 comment:

  1. I like this story, i cant believe the police would do something like this. Good job :)

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