Shots on the bridge : police violence and cover-up in the wake of Katrina / Ronnie Greene.
"A gripping tale of police brutality, investigating the cover-up of a deadly NOLA cops' shooting of six unarmed civilians, published on the tenth anniversary of Katrina. Six days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans, New Orleans Police Department officers opened fire on residents crossi...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
[2015]
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Prologue: On the bridge
- Part I: The killings. A family's bond, a threatening storm
- A mother's last chance
- Eleven people, one van, a second-floor apartment
- An officer, a baby due, a choice
- A city under water: survivors cling to life, police lose their grip
- 108: officer in distress, a race to the bridge
- The shots on the bridge: lives intersect- two dead, four maimed, endless barrage of gunfire
- Triage
- NOPD triage: the after action reports
- Part II: Making it all go away. The cover-up
- Shock, funerals, police visits- and a family's quest for answers
- Victims shine a legal light
- The District Attorney brings charges- and the Police Brotherhood fights back
- From narcotics cop to police attorney: an insider's view
- Judicial ties, prosecutorial error, and the NOPD walks free
- Part III: The trials. Conspiracy cracks under federal glare
- USA v. Bowen, Gisevius, Faulcon, Villavaso, Kaufman and Dugue
- Judgment time, judicial questions- and an officer's shame
- In the courtroom
- Part IV: Justice held up. The online commentators
- From prep school to politics to Danziger: a judge's prayerful path
- Judgment day: a mother and brother confront the convicted
- The consent decree: a history of police abuse, documented
- "The interests of justice": the reversal
- Epilogue: As a national civil rights movement stirs, justice is on hold in New Orleans.