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Man Charged In Post Katrina Hate Shootings

Written by News One on July 16, 2010 9:53 am

Hurricane Katrina picture 1NEW ORLEANS — A white man accused of shooting and wounding three black men in New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath has been charged with a federal hate crime.

A five-count indictment Thursday accuses 47-year-old Roland Bourgeois Jr. of firing a shotgun at the men in the city’s Algiers Point neighborhood while they tried to flee after the August 2005 hurricane.

Prosecutors said Bourgeois discussed shooting black people and “defending” the neighborhood after the storm. He allegedly retrieved a bloody baseball cap belonging to one of the victims and displayed it after the shooting.

Bourgeois, now a resident of Columbia, Miss., faces a possible life sentence if convicted of charges that include committing a hate crime with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.

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Tags: Hate Crime, Hurricane Katrina, Racism, Roland Bourgeois Jr
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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    He musta got a flash back 2 the early 1900′s when the levee’s popped

    they shot black folk down like dogs if they didn’t create a barrier 2 save THEIR communtities

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

    he might as well lynch them and cut there ear off 2 show the other pigs

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

    After a hurricane. hes worried about protection of the neighborhood?? he shouldve been woried about saving himself from the hurricane..he just seen an opportunity to shoot someone black and did it. SMH thats a shame.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/50Toni/ 50Toni

    DEATH BY HANGING in a Public area so the Families can watch while Breakfast Open to the Public that how White s use to do it MMMmmmm.

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