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Remember the "Katrina shootings"

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UPDATED: Friday, April 6, 2012 17:14
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012 9:49 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Took a while, but those police have been held to account:
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Five former New Orleans police officers were sentenced Wednesday to prison terms ranging from six to 65 years for their roles in deadly shootings of unarmed residents on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina.

Kenneth Bowen, Robert Gisevius, Anthony Villavaso and Robert Faulcon were convicted of firearms charges in the shootings. Retired Sgt. Arthur "Archie" Kaufman, who was assigned to investigate the shootings, was convicted of helping orchestrate the cover-up.

Faulcon received the stiffest sentence of 65 years. Bowen and Gisevius each got 40 years while Villavaso was sentenced to 38 years. Kaufman received the lightest sentence at six years.

A federal jury convicted the officers in August 2011 of civil rights violations in the shootings on the Danziger Bridge and the cover-up.

Police shot six people, killing two, less than a week after the storm's landfall on Aug. 29, 2005. To make the shootings appear justified, officers conspired to plant a gun, fabricate witnesses and falsify reports.

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012 3:08 PM

RIONAEIRE

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What a mess, I'm glad that the families of the victims at least saw some punishment given, though that certainly doesn't even things out.

I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise. "A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012 6:28 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


So if it was a federal jury, that's supposed to mean that they do every day of those sentences, no parole, no time off for good behavior, no early release, etc.

And I hope they really do serve every single day of those sentences.

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Thursday, April 5, 2012 6:16 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Didn't know that, me too. It's a shame that stuff like this gets so much play when it happens, and few ever know the outcome years later. It paints a picture which enhances the impression of many that the cops are all bad and the justic system is totally screwed. I'm glad they got convicted.



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Thursday, April 5, 2012 6:20 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


Glad they got convicted as well.

P.S. Katrina, and everything that happened, is a big reason us gun-nuts are so adamant.

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"



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Friday, April 6, 2012 5:14 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!




Too bad there's no justice for the other 5,000 murders by police state deat hsquads during Katrina...




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