FBI Raids New Orleans Police Homicide Division
Sunday, August 09, 2009

FBI agents raided the New Orleans Police Department homicide division on Thursday looking for files and evidence relating to the killings of several African Americans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. One case involved the shooting of six people by local police on the Danziger Bridge which resulted in two deaths, and the other involved the mysterious death of Henry Glover. A local resident said he found Glover with a gunshot wound to the chest amid the flooding and lawlessness that followed Katrina, but when he drove the wounded man to police, authorities seized his car, along with Glover, whose remains were later found in the burned out shell of the car parked behind the 4th District police station. The FBI raid comes at the same time that the Department of Justice is conducting a federal grand jury investigation looking into both incidents.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
FBI Seizes Police Files in Bridge Shootings (by Brendan McCarthy, New Orleans Times-Picayune)
The Mysterious Post-Katrina Death of Henry Glover (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
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