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Federal Agents Open Inquiry Into Order Authorizing NOPD Cops to Shoot Looters
Federal agents are looking into allegations that high-ranking New Orleans police commanders gave orders after Hurricane Katrina authorizing officers to shoot looters, our partners at the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported today.
Agents have asked for information from New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Ronal Serpas and are asking to interview officers with direct knowledge of the orders, the Times-Picayune says.
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Algiers Police Shooting Report Altered, Sources Say
Case Five | | March 14, 2010A police report about the shooting of a man whose burned corpse was later discovered in a car on the Algiers levee after Hurricane Katrina…
Post-Katrina Shootings by Police Get Federal Attention
Case Two | | February 19, 2010Federal agents have broadened their investigation of the New Orleans Police Department and are now looking into three post-Katrina police shootings detailed in a news…
New Orleans Police Officer Under Investigation in Shooting in Days After Katrina
Case Five | | February 13, 2010This article was co-published with the New Orleans Times-Picayune. A former New Orleans police officer is under investigation for shooting Henry Glover outside an Algiers…
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Feds Tell Two New Orleans Officers They’re Targets in Post-Katrina Shooting Probe
The federal government has sent letters informing two New Orleans police officers that they are targets of an investigation into the death of 45-year-old Danny Brumfield Sr., a man who was shot to death just outside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center after Hurricane Katrina, our partners at the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported today.
In New Orleans, New Evidence of a Beating by Police
The New Orleans Times-Picayune has uncovered evidence that police officers physically attacked two city residents and a working photojournalist on Sept. 1, 2005, three days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.
The story helps explain a mysterious scene we reported about last December in a joint project with the Times-Picayune and PBS’ FRONTLINE, one of a series of reports documenting violent encounters between citizens and officers of New Orleans Police Department in the aftermath of Katrina.
Six More Charged in New Orleans Danziger Bridge Shootings
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the indictment of six current or former New Orleans Police Department officers...
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Religious Street
There is no police report describing what happened in this photo.
Matt McDonald
Why didn’t police tell his family he was killed by an officer?
Danny Brumfield
How does a man waving down a police car die from a shotgun blast to his back?
Keenon McCann
The gun police said he had was never found.
Henry Glover
His skull and ashes were found in the back of an incinerated Chevy.
Danziger Bridge
Officers responding to an emergency call opened fire on civilians, injuring four and killing two.
