More police officers accused of murder in New Orleans

Four police officers are charged with shooting and killing two unarmed civilians in the chaotic days after the August 2005 Katrina storm, and if they are guilty they will face the death penalty.

They are accused of shooting citizens and trying to cover up their murder. Some other former police officers have already been found guilty of helping them cover up the killings and the whole New Orleans police department is under investigation. These abominable murders happened when a family tried to cross the Danziger Bridge to reach the supermarket and get food. And two more people were on the bridge in their way for a dental office. This is when the shootings took place. The FBI said New Orleans police showed up to see what happened and opened fire. At the end of the incident, two unarmed citizens were killed and four were wounded. One of the victims presented a gun wound in her back, an indication of the fact that he was trying to run.

At first, the police officers said they fired in self-defense, but the Justice Department discovered that the statement was a lie and that the officers shot the civilians for no reason at all. After the crime, they planted a gun at the scene of the murder as a cover-up plan, together with invented witnesses and false police reports. This is only one case of trial following alleged Katrina murders, and is following after the conviction of five current or former New Orleans police officers which were accused of murdering a man and then burning him to lose the traces.