Cops shot at 14yr old boy during Hurricane Katrina

El Guapo!

Scumbags! :mad:
And the defense argument is pathetic. I hope they all get prosecuted to the full extent. But they'll probably only get a slap on the wrist.

Katrina cops admit cover-up after shooting the innocent




Officers stand on trial for covering-up a one-sided shoot out following Hurricane Katrina.



In the ongoing investigation of police brutality and misconduct during the Hurricane Katrina aftermath, the latest person to take the stand against New Orleans officers says he was kicked, punched and beaten after cops opened fire on him.
Leonard Bartholomew IV was 14 years old during the natural disaster, and he said that he was trying to cross New Orleans’ Danziger Bridge when a box truck tore past him and someone began shooting from inside.
Former 7th District Officer Kevin Bryan says he asked fellow cop Ignatius Hills why he was shooting at Bartholomew and asked him "What the f--- are you doing?"
"I was trying to shoot that little n

---

," responded Hills, says Bryan.
The two officers raced after the teenager, eventually trapping him on the ground. Bryan says he “slapped him with an open hand” in “the heat of the moment,” but then felt horrible over the incident.
Attorneys representing the defense are arguing that hysteria and trauma that came as a result of Katrina caused officers to work under conditions they weren’t use to and that mistakes were made as a result.
One of those mistakes that afternoon on the Danziger took the arm off of Bartholomew’s mother, who was shot while trying to take refuge. Two unarmed men were also slain in the ordeal, including a teenager and a mentally-disabled man.
"I should have been shot too. It wasn't right that everybody else had to go through all that pain and I was all right," Bartholomew told jurors. “Everybody had to go through all of this pain and I was just walking around… I felt like it just wasn't right." Though he wasn’t hit by bullets, he was unexplainably apprehended and taken to a New Orleans jail cell. When he was released later in the day, he was miles from home and was unsure of his family’s whereabouts — or condition.
It ended up taking Bartholomew ten days before he was able to connect with anyone in his family.
Officer Hill has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony, and has testified that he unjustly shot Bartholomew and participated in a police cover-up of the whole ordeal.
Bryan says that, on the crime scene, he asked to see the reports from his fellow officers but was rebuffed by Hills.
"I thought it was some shady stuff," Bryan says. "For him not to show me a report…it was shocking."
A dozen New Orleans police officers responded to the scene that afternoon. Five officers have pleaded guilty to their roles in the conspiracy and six others facing 24 counts each, including depriving citizens of civil rights, using a weapon in committing a crime and obstruction of justice.

http://rt.com/usa/news/katrina-orleans-bryan-bartholomew/

greenybaby

sickening but on a brighter note, he didn't die

hatrickpatrick

*sigh*

People like this should never be allowed to become police.

I would be wholeheartedly in favour of a full psychological evaluation of potential recruits and anyone with any form of loose cannon tendencies, trigger happiness or sadism should simply be barred completely from joining either the police or the military, or any profession in which you have the power to kill people who piss you off. >_<

digme

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

*sigh*

People like this should never be allowed to become police.

I would be wholeheartedly in favour of a full psychological evaluation of potential recruits and anyone with any form of loose cannon tendencies, trigger happiness or sadism should simply be barred completely from joining either the police or the military, or any profession in which you have the power to kill people who piss you off. >_<

the military tend to shoot people. lol
look at iraq 90% of deaths are civilians

hatrickpatrick

digme wrote: »

the military tend to shoot people. lol
look at iraq 90% of deaths are civilians

And maybe if there were stricter criteria for what constitutes the right frame of mind to be trusted with such abilities, there would be far less innocent deaths.

digme

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

And maybe if there were stricter criteria for what constitutes the right frame of mind to be trusted with such abilities, there would be far less innocent deaths.

right frame of mind then there would tend not to be any invasions.

El Guapo!

I agree that they should all be psychologically screened before they are allowed into the police force. It might not stop all the nut-jobs doing stuff like this but it'll help.

CreepingDeath

Dean09 wrote: »

I agree that they should all be psychologically screened before they are allowed into the police force. It might not stop all the nut-jobs doing stuff like this but it'll help.

They might've been okay when they joined, but the pressure of the job got to them. Between being attacked, shot at and under high pressure situations daily, they could snap.

El Guapo!

CreepingDeath wrote: »

They might've been okay when they joined, but the pressure of the job got to them. Between being attacked, shot at and under high pressure situations daily, they could snap.

That's still know excuse for shooting at a harmless 14yr old boy during a major national catastrophy. No matter what way their defense tries to sugar-coat it, they're still sick fúcks.

discus

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

*sigh*

People like this should never be allowed to become police.

I would be wholeheartedly in favour of a full psychological evaluation of potential recruits and anyone with any form of loose cannon tendencies, trigger happiness or sadism should simply be barred completely from joining either the police or the military, or any profession in which you have the power to kill people who piss you off. >_<

\errr, everyone has the power to kill someone. We all drive cars dont we? We all can buy knives?

Gandalph

Protect and serve obviously in full effect here...scum

tallaghtmick

racist cops shocking