FBI raids NOLA police over Katrina killings

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http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/08/fbi-raids-nola-police-over-katrina-killings/

By Daniel Tencer

Published: August 8, 2009
Updated 11 hours ago

Nearly four years after the police shootout that took the lives of Ronald Madison and James Brissette on New Orleans’ Danziger Bridge, the FBI raided the offices of the police investigators who had been looking into the deadly incident.

The bureau’s move suggests that the federal government may be serious about seeing police officers prosecuted over the Sept. 4, 2005 shootout, when Madison and Brissette were allegedly killed by police while four others were wounded as they crossed a bridge in the midst of the Hurricane Katrina crisis.

It also suggests the FBI may be worried that New Orleans police are trying — or may in the future try — to destroy evidence of what happened that day.

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3. What kind of fuck head would unrecommend this?

I canceled that one out.

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4. As the article speculates, the NOLA cops & city gov't are probably destroying evidence.

What happened on that bridge was nothing short of cold-blooded murder. I still get watery eyes when I think of some of the interviews I heard with survivors & family members of ther deceased.

Those who have helped cover up the events & shield the murderers should he held accountable as accessories after the fact.

However, given the FBI's hundred year consistent history of incompetence, lying, cronyism, malfesance & murder I don't hold out much hope for true justice. It was known as the "Department of Easy Virtue" until Hoover took over and "cleaned" it up. LOL!

The outrage should be greatest on the local level. Residents of NO & Louisiana should put enough heat on their local & state officials to get something done.

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