Posted on 05/26/2011 8:40:19 AM PDT by WaterBoard
New Orleans Capt. Jeff Winn has been fired from the department today for his failure to notify NOPD investigators about his knowledge of what happened in the Henry Glover civil rights case, according to his attorney.
Winn testified at trial that he knew a man who had been shot arrived at school grounds in Algiers where his officers in the NOPD's Special Operations Division had set up camp in the chaotic week after Hurricane Katrina. He told two of his subordinates -- Officer Greg McRae and Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann -- to drive the man's body, inside a car, to a nearby levee so it would be out of the way.
Winn testified that he did not know McRae burned the body until early 2009.
Five officers, including Scheuermann and McRae, were accused of various roles in the Algiers man's death, the burning of his body, the beating of his companions and a subsequent cover-up.
the cover-up persisted until the FBI opened a probe in early 2009. McRae, Officer David Warren and Lt. Travis McCabe were convicted.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
So did they “drive the body” in one of the Cadillacs black officers stole form the local dealership?? At least the murder victim enjoyed an expensive ride!
Fired? That’s it? How about a prosecution under 18USC242? This is a death penalty Civil Rights case if there ever was one.
He was put into an abandoned car in an area where most people aren’t around and the cops torched the car.
Oh, it aint over.
The car wasn’t abandoned; it was confiscated from the Good Samaritan who’d driven Glover to the police in search of help.
What ever happened to the charge that 1/3 or so of the officers in New Orleans disappeared immediately after Katrina. It was unknown at the time if they turned coward or if they never existed. Did they ever find out?
I don’t know. Many did abandon their duty as they tried to get their own families to safety and just said the hell with it.
Katrina made police choose between duty and loved ones
That image was fostered by former police superintendent Eddie Compass’ estimate, shortly after the hurricane hit, that 500 officers roughly one-third of the police force had abandoned their posts.
Riley, who was appointed by Mayor Ray Nagin when Compass resigned a month after the hurricane, has said that the actual number of deserters was less than half what Compass estimated.
The latest police department statistics reflect that:
Seventy-six officers have been fired for abandoning their jobs during the crisis.
At least 11 have been fired for neglecting their duties.
An additional 41 have resigned while under investigation for a range of alleged misconduct related to the storm, including neglect of duty.
An undisclosed number of officers have been suspended for up to 120 days for misconduct during the hurricane crisis.
Roughly 65 officers initially accused of misconduct have been cleared of wrongdoing.
At the end of January, the police review panel was still reviewing the conduct of about 30 officers.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-02-20-neworleanspolice_x.htm
Thanks for the correction, I had thought it had been a car that had been left there/some non-working car.
I watched the documentary on NOPD problems during Katrina. I believe I would have had more potentially lethal problems with the police than others if I had been down there during that time.
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