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Grand Jury Investigating New Orleans Cops’ Conduct Post-Katrina

Written by News One on October 5, 2009 5:00 pm

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From the New Orleans Times-Picayune:

When state officials in 2006 booked Dr. Anna Pou with murder, saying she euthanized some of the sickest patients in an overwhelmed, flooded hospital where 34 patients died, Louisianans mostly rallied to Pou’s cause.

A grand jury rejected charges and Attorney General Charles Foti, who had ordered the doctor arrested, was bounced out of office.

When Salvador and Mabel Mangano were tried in the drownings of 35 people at their St. Bernard Parish nursing home it took a jury only four hours to acquit them.

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So how will New Orleanians react to the intensive federal investigation into the actions of some New Orleans police officers after the storm?

Grand jurors have been meeting for months in the federal building on Poydras Street, asking questions and seeking answers about what happened in the dark days after the storm.

Among the mysteries they’re trying to unravel: Did New Orleans police officers fatally shoot 31-year-old Henry Glover? Did other officers incinerate a car with his body inside and leave it on an Algiers levee? If so, why? And what, exactly, happened on the Danziger Bridge, where two men were killed by police?

The facts, when they come out, are likely to be weighed — at least by New Orleanians — against the end-of-days world in which the alleged misdeeds took place.

At the heart of the matter are deceptively simple questions: Should the choices people make during a catastrophe be held to a different standard than those they make under more ideal circumstances? And if so, how drastically should the rules be bent?

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It’s a question that will forever be debated on barstools, in philosophy papers and in courtrooms.

The law is fairly clear, however.

“As a legal matter, the law doesn’t change when the sky opens up and disaster takes place, ” said Dane Ciolino, a professor at Loyola Law School.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/armandx99/ armandx99

    As a New Orleanean, I’ve seen my fair share of social injustice, including that at the hands of local law enforcement. To the NOPD’s credit, there are many fine officers who do care about what they do and how they affect the community. Unfortunately, there are many bad officers who not only shame themselves, but their families, fellow officers, and the city of New Orleans as well. I am hopeful that the grand jury will effectively evaluate the evidence before them, although I find it likely that just or not, the outcome may show favor to the officers in the aforementioned cases. Please, just continue to keep us in your prayers, and we’ll keep you in ours. One love!!!

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    I have a feeling those cops will get a tap on the wrist or nothing at all.

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    I say put Dane Ciolino in a city all by him self and a couple others and flood the place. Lets see how long he will survive without trying to break open a glass window to a food store to find some food!

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    yall better learn about this s**t called ‘BLACK WATER’…… they are privately employed MERCANARIES aka soldiers 4 hire, that our government uses to do dirt……… they can basically do whatever they want.

    BlackWater was active down in New Orleans during Katrina and they active in Iraq as well…….they do what the f**k they want !!

    ps- I hope yall remember how they called us ‘REFUGEES’ ???

    they lock us up in jail cuz they cant deport us !!!

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