Ex-New Orleans cops get long sentences

UPI
April 4, 2012

Four former New Orleans police officers were sentenced to decades in prison Wednesday for killing unarmed men in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

A fifth police officer got six years for his role in trying to cover up the shootings, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported.

U.S. District Judge Kurt Englehardt heard statements in the morning from relatives of the men shot on the Danziger Bridge.

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This article was posted: Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 3:06 pm

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