Re: New Orleans Polices Charged With Killings Debunkers After Katrina

On Jul 17, 10:53�am, nathaniel x vance <broali...@yahoo.com> wrote:

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New Orleans Polices Charged With Killings After
Katrina<http://www.truth-out.org/new-orleans-police-charged-with-killings-aft
er-katrina61419> Tuesday 13 July 2010 by: Jordan Flaherty �|
ColorLines |
Report<http://colorlines.com/archives/2010/05/the_long_rap_sheet_of_new_orlea
ns_cops.html>

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As revelations of police violence and corruption shake New Orleans,
the city's new mayor, Mitch Landrieu, has signaled the disturbing
direction he plans to take, asking the Department of Justice to
help restructure the police department while at the same time
appointing a new police chief whose daughter lives with a police
officer involved in a racist brawl now under federal investigation.

The dual announcement came last week in the wake of eight federal
criminal investigations into accusations that police brutalized and
killed residents in New Orleans in the days after Hurricane Katrina
struck the city and in more recent years. Already, four police
officers have pled guilty.

Now the Justice Department is expected to announce its wider
investigation of the New Orleans Police Department. Most likely,
this will lead to a restructuring of the police force which could
go in one of two ways: a kind of hostile takeover, in which the
Justice Department issues mandates, or a friendly partnership, in
which the feds play the role of cooperative overseer.

By asking publicly for help from the feds, Mayor Landrieu is clearly
hoping to get the latter, gentler deal.

But what Justice Department officials will find in New Orleans is
a systemic problem of corruption that has its roots in pre-Katrina
times and that's going to require more than just a new police chief
or a restructuring. Part of the city's troubled system includes its
elected coroner, the district attorney's office, the U.S. attorney
and the city's independent police monitor, whose ability to perform
its own investigations have been, according to residents here,
severely limited.

The Justice Department will also find a slew of other crimes at the
hands of police that families and activists say need to be investigated.

The current scandal broke with the stories of killings that happened
in the days after Hurricane Katrina, when police officers apparently
believed they were defending a city under siege and were given tacit
permission to use deadly force at their own discretion.

Among the most disturbing revelations:

* � On September 2, 2005, four days after Katrina made landfall,
Henry Glover was shot by one officer, then apparently taken hostage
by other officers who either killed him directly or burned him
alive.

* � Also on September 2, Danny Brumfield Sr., a 45 year old man
stranded with his family at the New Orleans Convention Center, was
deliberately hit by a patrol car, then shot in the back by police
in front of scores of witnesses as he tried to wave down the officers
and ask for help.

* � On September 4, 2005, a group of police officers drove up to
several unarmed civilians at the Danziger Bridge who were fleeing
their flooded homes and opened fire. Two people were killed, including
a mentally disabled man named Ronald Madison. Madison was shot in
the back by officer Robert Faulcon and officer Kenneth Bowen then
rushed up and kicked and stomped on him, apparently until he was
dead.

* � Police officers then arrested Madison's brother Lance under
false pretenses and later had secret meetings where they conspired
to invent a cover story, including planting evidence, inventing
witnesses and coordinating lies.

But the violence wasn't just about a few bad cops.

At the time, no one in power neither in New Orleans or in Washington
seemed to be interested in looking into the details of who shot who
and why. Although seven officers were indicted in 2006 for the
Danziger Bridge shooting, the case fell apart in court. For more
than three years, these post-Katrina murders were ignored by the
city's district attorney, the Republican U.S.

General Attorney, and even the local media. Then, in late 2008
ProPublica and The Nation published the results of an 18-month
investigation by journalist A.C. Thompson, and soon after the
Department of Justice, under new leadership, began its own inquiries.

FBI agents reconstructed crime scenes, interviewed witnesses and
seized officer's computers. Since then, the disturbing revelations
have continued to unfold, as one-by-one officers have been forced
by the evidence against them to confess. One of the most chilling
findings is that police may have burned a man alive or at least
burned his body to cover up the evidence of murdering him.

While the stories are shocking and terrible, advocates here say
police violence has been endemic.

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