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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. |
| Summary |
"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 crossing the Danziger Bridge. When the shooting stopped, a mentally challenged man and a seventeen-year-old boy were dead, riddled with gunshot wounds. A mother's arm was shot off, her daughter's stomach gouged with a bullet hole, and her husband's head pierced by shrapnel. Her nephew was shot in the neck, jaw, stomach, and hand. All six of the victims, along with two others arrested at the scene, were black and unarmed. Before the blood dried, the shooters and their supervisors had hatched a cover-up. They would plant a gun, invent witnesses, and charge two of their victims with attempted murder. The NOPD hailed all the shooters on the bridge as heroes. Shots on the Bridge explores one of the most dramatic casesof injustice in the last decade. It reveals the fear that gripped the police of a city fallen into anarchy, the circumstances that led desperate survivors to go to the bridge, and the horror that erupted with the gunfire. It dissects the cover-up that nearly buried the truth and the legal maze that, a decade later, leaves the victims still searching for justice." |
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1160 Lexile. |
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1160L Lexile |
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Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Hurricane Katrina (2005) |
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2005 |
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Police brutality -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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Minorities -- Civil rights -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
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Minorities -- Civil rights. |
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Police brutality. |
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Racial profiling in law enforcement. |
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Louisiana -- New Orleans. |
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Electronic books. |
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9780807033517 : $24.95 |
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0807033510 : $24.95 |
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