OK, I thank the poster about the info on the Danziger Bridge shooting where police shot into unarmed civilians, killing 2 and wounding 4 others. I did some search, and according to the information coming out, after they killed the 40-y.o. mentally disabled man who had no weapon and posed no threat whatsoever, they went on to plant a weapon on the scene, and accused the deceased man’s older brother of possessing a gun and shooting into police!
Had they succeeded in framing this totally innocent man, whose younger disabled brother they just killed, he could have been potentially sentenced to life in prison.
This Danziger Bridge shooting in New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina, has got to be one of the most outrageous cases of police brutality and cover-up in recent history. I wonder, was this a totally isolated incident, or have there been more like this? It seems like a whole police department was caught up in fabricating lies, false evidence, and cover-up.
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New Orleans Cop Explains How Police Gunned Down Unarmed Civilians In Post-Katrina Incident
The Shootings and the Start of the Conspiracy
In 2005, defendant HUNTER was an officer assigned to NOPD’s Seventh District. On September 4, 2005, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the defendant and his fellow Seventh District officers were working out of a temporary station at the Crystal Palace on Chef Menteur Highway. In response to a radio call that officers on the I-10 high-rise bridge had taken fire, defendant HUNTER and other NOPD officers loaded into a large Budget rental truck, which HUNTER then drove from the Crystal Palace to the Danziger Bridge.
En route to the Danziger Bridge, Sergeant A asked to borrow an assault rifle defendant HUNTER had placed in the cab of the Budget truck. HUNTER hesitated initially, but then relented and agreed to let Sergeant A use the assault rifle.
When defendant HUNTER first observed the Danziger Bridge on September 4, 2005, he saw in the distance a handful of people casually walking on the roadway on the bridge. **HUNTER realized that the people on the bridge would not know that the Budget truck held police officers who were responding to a call for assistance, so he used his left hand to fire warning shots, with his NOPD-issued handgun, out the window of the truck.
As defendant HUNTER fired these warning shots, the people on the bridge scattered and ran toward a concrete barrier separating the roadway from a pedestrian walkway. The civilians, who did not appear to have any weapons, began to climb or jump over the barrier.**
Defendant HUNTER stopped the Budget truck a short distance from where he had seen people climb over the concrete barrier. As the truck rolled to a stop, Sergeant A fired an assault rifle down toward the civilians on the walkway. At one point before HUNTER got out of the truck, he saw an older black male raise his head above the barrier, and he saw Sergeant A fire at the black male. The black male did not appear to have a weapon and did not threaten the officers.
In addition to the people who jumped over the concrete barrier, defendant HUNTER saw civilians running westward, toward the top of the bridge. HUNTER got out on the driver’s side, ran to the front of the truck, and fired his handgun in the direction of the people running away up the bridge. Sergeant B, who had also run to the front of the truck, stood nearby, firing an M4-type assault rifle at the same civilians. HUNTER did not see any weapons on these civilians, and did not see them stop or turn around. They did not appear to be a threat to the officers as they ran up the bridge. HUNTER fired his handgun numerous times in the direction of these fleeing civilians, but did not believe that he struck them.
Defendant HUNTER then walked to the passenger side of the truck, where Sergeant A and other officers were lined up in a position to fire at or behind the concrete barrier. HUNTER saw Sergeant A and one or more other officers firing at or behind the barrier. Seeing that there was no threat to the officers, defendant HUNTER shouted, “Cease fire!”
When the officers stopped firing, defendant HUNTER walked toward the back of the truck on the passenger side. While defendant HUNTER was still on the passenger side of the truck, near the walkway, he saw several civilians, who appeared to be unarmed, injured, and subdued. Sergeant A suddenly leaned over the concrete barrier, held out his assault rifle, and, in a sweeping motion, fired repeatedly at the civilians lying wounded on the ground.
The civilians were not trying to escape and were not doing anything that could be perceived as a threat.
From the parts I bolded in the above quote, it seems like the way this shooting started is one of those cases that they should teach, “how not to do things”. Imagine this from a civilian’s perspective. A Budget rental truck is coming your way, and somebody is shooting from it. You try to take cover, when the people from the truck jump out, and they turn out to be police officers, and they just keep shooting at you like Rambos.
The rest of the story gets even more horrific - please go to the website above to read it. They shoot another unarmed man in the back, from point blank range, and then one of the police officers jumps and starts kicking him and stomping on him, while the man is dying.
You can probably deduce what my name actually is.
