Jury convicts 5 officers in Katrina shootings

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NEW ORLEANS — A federal jury convicted five current or former police officers Friday of civil rights violations in the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina, but decided they were not guilty of murder.

All five officers were convicted Friday of charges stemming from the cover-up of the shootings. The four who had been charged with civil rights violations in the shootings were convicted on all counts.

However, the jury decided that neither fatal shooting was a murder.

Prosecutors said police shot six unarmed people, killing two, on the Danziger Bridge less than a week after the 2005 storm. Officers also were charged with participating in a cover-up to make the shootings appear justified.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44035946/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/#.Tjwvo3Ptjf8

[bobthedrummer]

1. K&R n/t

[intheflow]

2. Kick, Kick, Kick!!

:kick:

And fuckin' Rec, too! About time NOLA saw a modicum of justice.

[aikoaiko]

3. sometimes justice is belated

[malaise]

4. Posted this earlier and am still amazed that

not one network or cable has covered this

[sendero]

5. I love how the cops..

.. claimed they thought they were in danger, blah blah blah but then they went to extraordinary measures to cover up their actions.

Juries are not stupid enough to believe that the innocent go to extremes to cover up what they did.

These jackasses will go to jail for a long time as they deserve.