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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

New Orleans Police Charged With Murder

Please click onto the title of this post for a disturbing story.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you read on to additional links to this story you will also see that one of the officers had faced previous murder charges....but business as usual he was cleared of it. Here is a section of thgat article;


NEW ORLEANS — One of the seven policemen charged in a deadly gunfight on a bridge during the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina had previously been charged with murder in the 2001 death of a suspect, but the charges were dismissed.

Fraternal Order of Police lawyer Donovan Livaccari said Friday that Sgt. Kenneth Bowen had "acted within his rights to protect himself" in that case. Records show that the city agreed to pay the suspect's mother $12,500 to settle a lawsuit.

Bowen, five colleagues and another officer who has since left the force were indicted Thursday in the Sept. 4, 2005, shooting deaths of two men and wounding of four other people on the bridge.

A judge on Friday ordered the seven to surrender by Tuesday.

The shootings on the Danziger Bridge, just days after Katrina flooded New Orleans, became a symbol of the city's loss of control, and the facts of what happened remain murky. Police say that the officers were responding a report of other officers down, and that they thought one of the victims, Ronald Madison, had been reaching for a gun.

Madison, a mentally retarded man, was shot seven times — five times in the back, according to the coroner

Nancy

9:48 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I really need to hear more about this story.

The police must have felt threatened.

10:25 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It don't take much to threaten a cop. If you even question their authority they get scared and feel they are being threatened.

12:25 PM  

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