Pittsburgh Crips Leader Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Charges
Officers Convicted of Killing Two Victims and For Extensive Cover-Up of Crimes
WASHINGTON – A
federal jury today
convicted five officers from the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) on 25 counts in connection with the
federal prosecution of a police-involved shooting on the Danziger Bridge in the
days after Hurricane Katrina and an extensive cover-up of those shootings, the Justice Department
announced today.
The incident resulted in the
death of two civilians and the wounding of four othe ....
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