Judge: Cops Covered Up Katrina Shootings
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 9th, 2010 4:52 am by HL
Judge: Cops Covered Up Katrina Shootings
A New Orleans police officer who fired his gun at civilians on the Danziger Bridge a week after Hurricane Katrina pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday, offering a chilling account of what transpired on the bridge that day in 2005. Michael Hunter, 33, entered a guilty plea. Two investigators have confessed to playing roles in a wide-ranging cover-up of the police shooting, which injured four unarmed civilians and left two men dead. “I don’t think you can listen to that account without being sickened by the raw brutality of the shooting and the craven lawlessness of the cover-up,” said U.S. District Judge Sarah Vance.