Fourth New Orleans Officer Charged In Coverup Of Post-Katrina Shootings

[RamboLiberal]

A fourth New Orleans police officer was charged today in connection with the coverup of the police shootings of unarmed civilians on Danziger Bridge in New Orleans less than a week after Hurricane Katrina struck.

Officer Robert Barrios is accused of conspiring to obstruct justice with other officers who were on the scene when police killed two people and seriously wounded four others in what the Times-Picayune editorial board recently dubbed a "massacre."

The bill of information, which typically precedes a guilty plea, alleges "that Barrios and other officers discussed the stories that they would tell about what happened on the bridge and that, on Jan. 25, 2006, before the officers gave formal, audiotaped statements about the incident, they gathered with supervisors in an abandoned and gutted out building, where they again went over the stories they would tell on tape."

"The bill of information alleges that the purpose of the conspiracy Barrios joined was to provide false and misleading information in order to ensure that the shootings would appear to be legally justified and that the involved officers would therefore be shielded from liability."

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/fourth_ex-officer_charged_in_post-katrina_shooting.php?ref=fpblg

[Raineyb]

1. Good! It took long enough. n/t

[EFerrari]

2. K&R

[Brewman_Jax]

3. The truth cannot stay hidden

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