Police shootings in the week after Hurricane Katrina. Incredible series of articles

[uppityperson]

Dec 2009 series in NOLA. Incredible.

http://www.nola.com/crime/law_and_disorder/index.ssf

Part 1 »
Part 1
New Orleans Police Department shootings after Katrina under scrutiny
Shootings after Hurricane Katrina suggest a broader pattern of violent encounters between police and civilians ...

Part 2
Police shootings after Katrina: Was a gun inside a bag a threat to 5 officers?
One man's death on a Marigny street corner at the hands of New Orleans police

Part 3
Police shootings after Katrina: How does a man waving down a police car die from a shotgun blast to his back?
The investigation into his death by New Orleans police contains contradictions

Part 4
Police shootings after Katrina: SWAT team sees armed man, shoots him three times, but where's the gun?
Was he a robber, or just looking for water with his mom?

[uppityperson]

1. kick to boost up on page for more exposure

[Echo In Light]

2. K&R

[leveymg]

3. NOLA was a Free Fire Zone. Every white man got a human hunting license, including Blackwater

[SteveM]

6. "Every white man?" Some had their guns seized by illegal fiat which

allowed break-ins by LEO, Blackwater to seize weapons -- even from women. There's a law against that kind of dictatorial authority, now.

[EFerrari]

7. Scahill says Xe is now in Haiti. And people here are outraged

by the Haitians "ingratitude".

[uppityperson]

8. Keenon McCann bleeds from his wounds after he was shot on the Interstate-10 overpass near the Superd

Keenon McCann bleeds from his wounds after he was shot on the Interstate-10 overpass near the Superdome in New Orleans on Sept. 1, 2005. McCann was one of at least 10 people shot by New Orleans police in the week after Hurricane Katrina.



Police officers stand behind the motionless body of a man at Religious and Richard streets in New Orleans on Sept. 1, 2005. After the photographer snapped this image from the window of a car, the police tried to confiscate the memory card that contained the photo, but took the card from a different camera instead. The former NOPD 6th District commander says although it’s possible the man lying on the ground was roughed up, the man was not dead.(There is another person with a red shirt in the grass)



“They never, ever told me the police shot him. They told me it was a homicide,’’ she said. “They said: We don’t even know what day it happened because we weren’t there.’’

http://www.nola.com/crime/law_and_disorder/index.ssf/2009/12/was_a_gun_inside_a_bag_a_threat_to_5_officers.html

[Flaneur]

4. Important stuff. Will there ever be accountability for those killer cops?

Nah.

[KittyWampus]

5. I'm ashamed to belong to the same species as these murderers.

[crikkett]

9. K&R

may justice be done