Officers Sentenced for Role in Shooting Six Victims and for Extensive Cover-Up of Crimes
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—April 4, 2012. The Justice Department announced today that five officers from the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) were sentenced in connection with the federal civil rights prosecution of a police-involved shooting that occurred on the Danziger Bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina, leaving two innocent civilians dead and four others seriously wounded. The defendants were also sentenced for their…
