The Cleanup of the New Orleans Police Department Continues

In the case of the Danziger bridge shootings in New Orleans, after Katrina, five police officers have been convicted of an impressive array of charges, ranging from conspiracy to obstruct justice to false prosecution to planting a firearm to falsifying victim statements to fabrication of witnesses to “deprivation of civil rights by shooting.” One of the victims was developmentally disabled and was shot in the back… seven times. The police officers were not, however, convicted of murder.