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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Four more New Orleans police officers have been charged in the deadly shootings of two people in Hurricane Katrina's chaotic aftermath and could face the most serious punishment yet - the death penalty - for the killings that have brought down a string of other officers. Six current or former officers are charged in a 27-count indictment unsealed Tuesday. Five former New Orleans police officers already have pleaded guilty to helping cover up the shootings on the Danziger Bridge....

NOLA "SNIPER" STORY IN DOUBT Saturday, November 26, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.com Were the horror-stories of snipers shooting at relief contractors, after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, just one more example of propaganda to justify the police-state tactics employed by local authorities? New evidence has been revealed that these tales of woe may have been as disingenuous as the reports of massive police defections during the looting in the aftermath of the storm. (Those reports have since been found to be a cover-up of payroll padding in the city's employment records.) A story in the Los Angeles Times appears to debunk...

NEW ORLEANS — Even in the desperate days after Hurricane Katrina, the news flash seemed particularly sensational: Police had caught eight snipers on a bridge shooting at relief contractors. In the gun battle that followed, officers shot to death five or six of the marauders. Exhausted and emotionally drained police cheered the news that their comrades had stopped the snipers and suffered no losses, said an account in the New Orleans Times-Picayune. One officer said the incident showed the department's resolve to take back the streets. But nearly three months later — and after repeated revisions of the official account...

Five people killed by New Orleans Police Last Updated Sun, 04 Sep 2005 18:59:47 EDT CBC News New Orleans police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors travelling across a bridge on their way to make repairs. Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people, killing five or six. John Hall of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said fourteen contractors were travelling across a bridge that spans a canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River, under police escort, when they came under fire. The contractors...

CBS) NEW ORLEANS Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said. Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people, killing five or six. Fourteen contractors were traveling across the Danziger Bridge under police escort when they came under fire, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers. They were on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to help plug the breech in the 17th Street Canal, Hall said. None of...

<p>Mod point of clarification: The first 100 or so replies below were posted in reaction to reports that the contractors had been fatally shot.</p>