Saturday, August 06, 2011

Officers guilty over shootings during Katrina that shamed New Orleans...

In a dramatic act of delayed justice, a jury in New Orleans last night delivered guilty verdicts against five former and current officers of the city's police department stemming from the infamous Danziger Bridge shootings that came six days after Hurricane Katrina as well as the elaborate cover-up that followed.

While sentencing of the five will not come until December, the verdicts should help to lower the curtain on an episode that drew worldwide attention and shamed the whole city. They also delivered a marked success to federal prosecutors even though none of the defendants was charged with actual murder.

 "This was a critical verdict. I cannot overstate the importance of this verdict. The power, the message it sends to the community, the healing power it has," US Attorney Jim Letten said emerging from the courthouse. More...

Don't miss:
  1. Police brutality and cover-up in New Orleans during Katrina...
  2. Katrina's hidden race war...
  3. Cynthia McKinney claims 5000 people were executed during Katrina...
  4. NYPD officer admits that there are arrest quotas...
  5. Oakland: the shooting of Oscar Grant...
  6. 6 cops, 59 shots, 43 wounds, 1 dead black man... 

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