Jury convicts 3 officers in post-Katrina death

"NEW ORLEANS – A former New Orleans police officer was convicted Thursday of fatally shooting a man in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath and another officer was convicted of burning the man's body in a case that exposed one of the ugliest chapters in the police department's troubled history.

A federal jury also convicted a third officer of writing a false report on the deadly shooting of 31-year-old Henry Glover, but two others were acquitted of charges stemming from the alleged cover-up."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_katrina_burned_body

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Yea, it being the aftermath of Katrina had a major role in all of this. The officer thought, well since we're in a state of Marshall Law, they're are bodies all over, no accountability...so shit why I don't I try to pick off a ****** from this balcony? That'd be fun.

The shooting from the balcony is the #1 fact that shows this wasn't in self defense.

 

Two other police officers involved in the Danziger bridge incident, Jeffrey Lehrmann and Michael Lohman, pleaded guilty in February and March 2010.

http://www.chicagodefender.com/article-7321-ex-new-orleans-officer-pleads-in-shooting-cover-up.html

Excerpts:

"Jeffrey Lehrmann, who left the police department in 2006 and is a special agent at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Phoenix, pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony, which means he had knowledge of a crime and didn't report it.

Michael Lohman, a retired New Orleans police lieutenant, pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy to obstruct justice, but prosecutors said Lehrmann was the first to agree to cooperate with the Justice Department probe. State charges of murder or attempted murder against seven other officers were thrown out by a judge."

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Seems rather amazing that someone like Lehrmann could get a job as a special agent at U.S. Immigration enforcement after what he did and while still being investigated.

Gives the impression that the agency actually looks for people with those traits.

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Yeah. And unfortunately, many in local government positions also stick up for unscrupulous people of their city. Former NYC mayor Guiliani always stuck up for the NYC police. The police could have murdered a thousand babies, and Guiliani would have defended the police.

Some of the New Orleans police officers who were charged in the Katrina-related events won their cases at the local and state levels. It wasn't until the federal investigations started that some of them finally plead guilty or were convicted.

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Well after all, gulliani WAS involved in the whole 9/11 plot, shagggie.... He's an evil motherfucker. (you're right, just sayin' though, he's exceptionally bad)

This shits nuts. I honestly never paid much attention to katrina, but damn, it's too bad these guys didn't really have a gun. I mean, I know I'd have a gun, who wouldn't want one in that situation, for the express purpose of returning fire on averagely currupt law enforcement? We do have the right to have guns and all. "I shot him because I thought he had a gun, which he had the right to have" shouldn't fly to any degree, this guy should go down for murder, as should anyone who colluded with him to hide this, beat witnesses, or the like, as stated in the story.

 

The Danziger Bridge incident has even more bizarre aspects.

http://www.propublica.org/nola/story/fourth-person-indicted-in-danziger-bridge-shootings/

Excerpt:

"Ryder, 45, is an intriguing character. A convicted felon with no law enforcement experience, he pretended to be a deputy sheriff working for St. Landry Parish in the days after Hurricane Katrina. Armed with a cheap 9-mm handgun, he was posing as a deputy when New Orleans Police Department officers shot six civilians on the Danziger Bridge, according to a bill of information filed in court by federal prosecutors.

Prosecutors say Ryder deceived FBI investigators during two interviews in 2009, falsely claiming he had been shot at by civilians as he chased them through a trailer park located between the bridge and a nearby highway."

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