Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Henry Glover (photo: Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun)
The mysterious death of Henry Glover of New Orleans is gradually becoming less mysterious. Glover, who was found bleeding from a gunshot wound during the post-Katrina chaos and driven by a local resident to a temporary police compound, may have been shot with a rifle by New Orleans police officer David Warren, who spotted Glover leaving a store with looted goods, according to a New Orleans Times-Picayune article based on a police report. Glover dies September 2, 2005.
Another police report acknowledges that police took possession of Glover’s body after resident Will Tanner claimed he picked up Glover and drove him, along with two of Glover’s friends, to the makeshift police staging area. But the police report says the police chased Tanner’s car into the compound after it was seen breaking the speed limit and driving erratically. It also states there were only two men with Glover—who was already dead at the time of his arrival, police insist.
Tanner and Glover’s friends say Glover was still alive when police seized the vehicle and drove it to an isolated spot along the Mississippi River. Police say they did so to “secure” the car. However, officials have not provided an explanation of why Glover’s body was left behind, or how the car came to be burned out, charring Glover’s remains in the process.
Tanner and Glover’s friends claim they were beaten and handcuffed at the compound by police, who also failed to act on a 2005 missing person’s report filed by Glover’s mother until a media story about the incident was published in February 2009.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
New Details Emerge in Glover Case (by Ryan Knutson, ProPublica)
Missing-person Report on Henry Glover Shooting Got No Timely Follow-up, NOPD Records Show (by Laura Maggi, New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Algiers Police Shooting Report Altered, Sources Say (by Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi, New Orleans Times-Picayune and A.C. Thompson, ProPublica)
The Mysterious Post-Katrina Death of Henry Glover (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
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