The officers had pleaded guilty for their roles in opening fire on six residents, two of whom died, on the Danziger Bridge just days after the levees broke.
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There is something black children, especially black girls, are told from a very young age. You know what it is. It has made its way into the political discourse and into television sitcoms. Statisticians have worked to prove and disprove it. Young black people talk about it at happy hours and black student association meetings. We say it silently with nods to one another when we meet in places we are not expected to be: as we take our seats on a panel of experts, for example. Or when we check in with the receptionist at a job interview for a VP position at a big corporation. Our eyes say it when they meet the eyes of other black people at glitzy charity balls. We say it to ourselves as we get dressed and step out into a world that was designed to fail us, to see us fail.
back . despite the fact that former officers pled guilty to charge of planting a gun and participating in that very cover up. the fox chief correspondent, like i need to ask, what happened on the bridge? lshep, it was 9:00 a.m. on september 4th, 2005, police put out a distress call saying that there was an officer down or injured on the danzinger bridge. police arrived in a rented budget truck. shots were fired. according to the police they were fired on first . according to the civilians on the bridge it was a police ambush. whatever the truth, four people were injured and one james brissette was killed. two other men were chased by the cops and james madison was
aftermath of hurricane katrina, your brother one of them, was justice in this town also a victim? yes, it was just as bodily wound as my brother was because it just doesn t exist. drew griffin reporting. officers charged yesterday could face the death penalty. more now on the victims. ronald madison was a 40-year-old man with disabilities. he was shot in the back. the other victim, james brissette. hundreds of haitian kids still wondering where are their parents. we ll see how some relief we ll see how some relief workers are trying to help.