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A federal jury Aug. 5 convicted New Orleans Police Department Sgt. Anthony Kaufman on 10 counts related to the killings of James Brissette and Ronald Madison on the Danziger Bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Despite his conviction, Kaufman will collect a pension of $2,908.20 per month. Sgt. Kenneth Bowen, guilty of 13 counts in the Danziger Bridge shootings, will receive $2,093.60 per month.
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NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans police officers decided to "shoot first and ask questions later" when they gunned down two unarmed people and wounded four others on a bridge in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, a federal prosecutor said Monday during opening statements for a trial spotlighting one of the epic storm's most notorious episodes. The jury heard a vastly different account of the encounter on the Danziger Bridge from lawyers for five current or former officers charged in the deadly shootings. Defense attorneys said their clients feared for their lives and were justified in using deadly force.
... in the shootings, which killed 17- year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison, who was ...
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WASHINGTON, July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Six officers with the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) were charged today in connection with the federal investigation of a police-involved shooting on the Danziger Bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina, the Justice Department announced today. The incident resulted in the death of two civilians and the wounding of four others. The indictment charges four officers - Kenneth Bowen, Robert Gisevius, Robert Faulcon and Anthony Villavaso - in connection with the shootings, and charges those four officers and two supervisors - Arthur "Archie" Kaufman and Gerard Dugue - with helping to obstruct justice during the subsequent investigations.
... side of the bridge, killing 17-year- old James Brissette, and wounding Susan Bartholomew, 38; Leo...
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NEW ORLEANS - A federal jury on Friday convicted five current or former police officers in deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina, a high-profile victory for the Justice Department in its push to clean up the city's troubled police department. The case was a high-stakes test of the effort to rid the police department of corruption and brutality. A total of 20 current or former New Orleans police officers were charged last year in a series of federal probes. Most of the cases center on actions during the aftermath of the Aug. 29, 2005, storm, which plunged the flooded city into a state of lawlessness and desperation.
... were convicted in the death of 17-year-old James Brissette. Jurors didn't have to decide whether Br...
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NEW ORLEANS - A federal jury on Friday convicted five current or former police officers in deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina, a high-profile victory for the Justice Department in its push to clean up the city's troubled police department. The case was a high-stakes test of the effort to rid the police department of corruption and brutality. Twenty current or former New Orleans police officers were charged last year in a series of federal probes. Most of the cases center on actions during the aftermath of the Aug. 29, 2005, storm, which plunged the flooded city into lawlessness and desperation.
... were convicted in the death of 17-year-old James Brissette. Jurors didn't have to decide whether Br...
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NEW ORLEANS - Call it the Katrina defense: the idea that police officers' deadly acts in the wake of the hurricane must be judged through the prism of the chaos and desperation that reigned at the time. Whether it worked in the trial of five current or former New Orleans police officers in the shooting death of a man outside a strip mall is open for debate. One was convicted Thursday of manslaughter, another of burning the body, a third of lying about the incident. But two others were acquitted, and no one was found guilty of murdering 31-year-old Henry Glover.
...Nineteen-year-old James Brissette and Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old mental...
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A federal jury Friday convicted five current or former police officers in deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina, a high-profile victory for the Justice Department in its push to clean up the city's troubled police department. A total of 20 current or former New Orleans police officers were charged last year in a series of federal probes. Most of the cases center on actions during the aftermath of the Aug. 29, 2005 storm, which plunged the flooded city into a state of lawlessness and desperation.
... were convicted in the death of 17-year-old James Brissette. Kaufman, who was assigned to investigat...
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... were able to provide last year," President James W. Brissette said. "The level-funded school budget...
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The vast majority of statistics involving economic development in New Orleans continued to trend in a positive direction in 2001, but one number continues to bedevil the city. As the year ended, the city was nearing 200 murders, a 12 percent increase over last year. Most killings receive only brief mentions in daily news reports. But occasionally in 2011, public officials issued clarion calls in response to murders that crystallized abject systemic failure or those that seemed especially repugnant.
...4, 2005, killings of James Brissette and Ronald Madison on the Danziger Bridg...
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In the best spirit of law enforcement coordination, and at the request of the victim's families, the New Orleans District Attorney has referred the matter to the United States Department of Justice for review," U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said in a statement early this month. When the "Danziger 7" turned themselves in to authorities, they were greeted by applause and cheers from a large crowd of supporters, some of whom carried signes that read "Heroes. "I am totally shocked." attorney Franz Zibilich, who represents [Robert Faulcon Jr.]. told The Associated Press last week. "The state never had jurisdiction over civil rights violations. And it's been three years. You would think if the Feds were interested they would have investigated long before this." NEW ORLEANS-The Civil Rights Divis...
...and James Brissette, 19, were shot and killed by police. Fou...
