A third New Orleans police officer was charged today in connection with the 2005 shootings of unarmed civilians by police on Danziger Bridge, which took place less than a week after Katrina hit the city.
Michael Hunter will plead guilty to obstruction of justice and misprision of felony charges, his attorney tells WDSU in New Orleans. In the past month or so, two other officers have pleaded guilty to charges related to covering up the killings.
Hunter allegedly drove the truck full of officers to the bridge, where they would, according to the government, kill two unarmed civilians and seriously injure four others. And he then allegedly lied to investigators about what happened.
It was a white man's dream, Katrina, and a free for all with regard to putting the "black man" in his place. All the press coverage about the "rapes, murders and thefts" never really panned out and were disproved over time. The killings on the bridge never rang true to me, and finally, almost five years later, justice is being served.
I've never gotten over the disgraceful reaction from the Bush Administration toward the people of NOLA, nor can I get those images of bodies floating in the water, all bloated, from my head, much in the same way I cannot rid myself of the images of 9/11.
Five years later, and much of the 9th ward is still not rebuilt. Go figure, eh?
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