5 NOPD officers guilty in post-Katrina Danziger Bridge shootings, cover-up

[stevedeshazer]

Source: nola.com

A jury this morning convicted all five New Orleans police officers accused in the Danziger Bridge shootings, which took place amid the chaos after Hurricane Katrina and claimed the lives of two civilians, and a cover-up of startling scope that lasted almost five years.

The verdicts were a huge victory for federal prosecutors, who won on virtually every point, save for their contention that the shootings amounted to murder. The jury rejected that notion, finding that the officers violated the victims' civil rights, but that their actions did not constitute murder.

Sentencing for the five officers, all of them likely facing lengthy prison terms, has been set for Dec. 14 before U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt.

Read more: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/08/danziger_bridge_verdict_do_not.html

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Justice is served.

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

Always sounded like murder to me.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. K&R

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. Justice, for a change. n/m

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Dissapointing on the murder charge, but I'm impressed they came back with as much

guilty as they did.

[DirkGently]

4. "How are you able to empty a shotgun in the person and it's not murder?"

Good question.

[stevedeshazer]

5. WHAT HAPPENED ON THE DANZIGER BRIDGE

.pdf

http://www.nola.com/news/wide/index.ssf?What-Happened-On-The-Danziger-Bridge.pdf?825

[stevedeshazer]

6. Kick b/c I think the Danziger Bridge .pdf is important. n/t

[StarsInHerHair]

7. at least justice is partially served,, now about the Banksters...