Latest Orleans cops convicted of post-Katrina shootings
Jurors reached a verdict participating in the strictly watched trial behind three days of negotiations. The shootings occurred on Danziger channel on September 4, 2005, six days once much of novel Orleans went submarine once the powerful tempest slammed into the Gulf Coast.Prosecutors contend the officers opened fire on an exposed ancestors, homicide 17-year-old James Brissette and wounding four others. Minutes soon, solitary of the officers shot and killed Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old guy described by Justice officials like having terrible mental disabilities. Victims mother: Justice has been served Madison was difficult to flee the to-do what time he was shot, according to a Justice territory statement. single of the officers allegedly stomped and kicked Madison in the past he died, the statement celebrated.