Posted on 06/19/2011 7:10:45 PM PDT by PROCON
Five New Orleans police officers accused of indiscriminately shooting people in the chaos unleashed by Hurricane Katrina face a high-profile trial in the coming week. The deadly 2005 shooting on the Danziger Bridge and resulting cover-up came to epitomize the city's failure to protect its citizens and exposed deep-rooted corruption in the police department which many say remains unaddressed.
"This trial is going to show the country and the world that we have a serious problem with our police department," said Eddie Jordan, the city's former District Attorney.
"This department is engaged in horrendous acts against its citizens."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
But let me be the first to say:
Bush's Fault!
Didn’t they already convict a couple of cops on this?
Didn’t they already convict a couple of cops on this?
Yeah, black Citizens.
If you're a white, and a former Marine you're sol.
Not sure, the article doesn't mention it.
This will be a high profile court case, wonder how the MSM will cover it, being that the N.O. mayor was black and the governor was a big lib?!
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“This will be a high profile court case, wonder how the MSM will cover it, being that the N.O. mayor was black and the governor was a big lib?!”
If for some reason the MSM does cover it. I seriously doubt there will be any reference to the governor’s affiliations nor the race of the mayor...only the evil police.
so this is what happens when Looter Guys are affirmative-actioned into the NOPD
Remember the 500-600 phantom police that were on the payroll, were on the insurance and pension rolls, but didn’t actually exist.
Kind of like Lyndon Johnson’s “voters” for his first successful U.S. Senate run in 1948. And who else was a surprise winner in 1948?
So true...I remember watching a show about this black NO female cop who had ties to gangsta types. Anyway, she and a few of these robbed a place, she actually returned in uniform and the victims were more or less shocked, saying it was her that was involved. I think some people were left dead. Strange piece.
Frank and LaCaze had been at the restaurant twice earlier in the night to get leftover food to eat. When Chau had let her out on the last visit, she could not find the front door key. With Frank returning again for a third time, Chau sensed something was very wrong, so she ran to the kitchen to hide the money in the microwave.
Frank entered the front door using the key that she had taken from the restaurant earlier, and walked quickly past Officer Williams, pushing Chau, another of Chau's brothers, Quoc, and a restaurant employee into the doorway of the restaurant's kitchen. Williams started to follow asking them what was the problem when shots rang out.
As Frank turned back to the dining room of the restaurant, Chau grabbed Quoc to hide somewhere. LaCaze had been behind Officer Williams and shot him in the back of the neck, severing his spinal cord, instantly paralyzing him. The officer was shot again in the head and in the middle of his back, as he lay on the floor.
Chau, Quoc, and the employee hid in the rear of a large walk-in cooler in the kitchen, turning out its light as they entered. They did not know the whereabouts of Chau's and Quoc's other sister and brother, Ha and Cuong, who had been sweeping the dining room floors when Frank entered the restaurant. From inside the cooler, Chau and Quoc could partially see the kitchen and the front of the restaurant. Chau initially could see Frank looking for something in the kitchen. As Frank moved out of Chau's line of vision, additional gunshots were fired. Quoc next observed Frank searching where the Vus usually kept their money. Quoc saw Frank walk to the part of the kitchen where the bodies of his brother and sister were later found.
Frank and LaCaze were shouting and demanding the money. Ha and Cuong did not know where Chau had hidden the money. Twenty-one-year-old Ha was shot three times as she knelt pleading for her life and seventeen-year-old Cuong was shot seven times and pistol whipped. After Frank and LaCaze left the premises, Quoc emerged from the cooler and ran out the back door of the restaurant to a nearby friend's home to call 911 to report the murders. Chau tried frantically to call 911 on her cell phone, but, being inside the cooler, she could not receive a signal.
Frank dropped off LaCaze at a nearby apartment complex, both knowing that there were witnesses left behind. Frank heard the 911 call on her portable police radio saying that an officer was down at the Kim Anh restaurant. She returned to the scene, parked in the rear, and entered through the back door of the restaurant. She made her way through the kitchen to the dining room where Chau waited for help at the front door. As Chau bolted through the restaurant's front door to the safety of arriving officers, Frank immediately identified herself as a police officer. Chau told Frank that she knew what she had done and cried to the officers that Frank had committed the crimes.
Chau and Frank were questioned in detail while seated at different tables in the restaurant. Frank was taken to police headquarters for additional questioning, where she later confessed to the crimes along with LaCaze. Frank and LaCaze were arrested and charged with first degree murder.
From Wikipedia, Frank is the cop I'm referring to.
What was Williams being paid by Vu for? This isn’t clear to me.
Found that. Apparently he was moonlighting as security for the establishment.
And this:
Frank applied with the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) in 1993. Several red flags turned up during the hiring process. She'd been caught lying on several sections of her application, and had flunked two standard psychiatric evaluations. Psychologist Phillip Scurria examined her, and advised in no uncertain terms that she not be hired, saying she was "shallow and superficial." When it looked like her application was stalling despite protesting Scurria's evaluation, she left a suicide note and disappeared for over a day.
Despite this, the NOPD was chronically short-handed, and desperate to get more people on the force. Even with this shortage, then as now, the department does not hire anyone who doesn't live in New Orleans. Additionally, an unspoken quota system required the department to hire more African-Americans. Accordingly, she was hired on February 7, 1993. She graduated from the Police Academy on February 28, 1993.
An investigation and conviction ; Warren shot suspected looter (Shooter, convicted), different cops beat the people who drove him in search of help; the cops we’re then instructed to move the car to the levee. McCrae tossed a flare into the car with the body, convicted. Supervisor McCabe)changed paperwork to cover-up, convicted.
Shooter’s partner (a woman) refused to go along with the cover-up.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/12/henry_glover_verdict_form.html
If we ever do have a civil war again here in the US, former Marines, whites or coloreds won’t be finding security from the people within the city police forces. How will the citizens have any idea who is on our side? How will the citizens determine who is for global government or for the Constitution?
Are you an idiot??? WTF does skin color have to do with it??? Is this how you think, always assessing based on color???
My God.
I too, wish that I lived in a world where prejudice and profiling didn’t exist but reality shows that skin color does indeed make a difference in so many aspects of ones life.
Ask yourself what you would do if you owned a company that had eight great employees and you needed one more. Would you hire another person with your eyes closed to skin color or would you take into consideration just what effect hiring a black person might have to do with your daily productive output? Would you ask your current employees if they had any difficulties with that.
What would you do if three people said they would quit if you were to hire a Black person? Go ahead and show that you were color blind and hire him anyway knowing that this would end up costing you at least $40K or perhaps more by the time you got through juggling the new hires into slots they could be productive in?
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