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On the morning of September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, members of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), ostensibly responding to a call from an officer under fire, shot and killed two civilians at the Danziger Bridge: 17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison. Four other civilians were wounded. All the victims were African-American. None were armed or had committed any crime. Madison, a mentally disabled man, was shot in the back. The shootings caused public anger and further eroded the trust New Orleans had in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina and the NOPD.

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  • On the morning of September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, members of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), ostensibly responding to a call from an officer under fire, shot and killed two civilians at the Danziger Bridge: 17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison. Four other civilians were wounded. All the victims were African-American. None were armed or had committed any crime. Madison, a mentally disabled man, was shot in the back. The shootings caused public anger and further eroded the trust New Orleans had in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina and the NOPD. The NOPD attempted to cover-up the killings, falsely reporting that seven police officers responded to a police dispatch reporting an officer down, and that at least four suspects were firing weapons at the officers upon their arrival. Rev. Raymond Brown, the local head of the National Action Network, described the shootings as "...a racial tragedy." On August 5, 2011, a federal jury in New Orleans convicted five NOPD officers of myriad charges related to the cover-up and deprivation of civil rights. An attorney for the Justice Department described the case as "the most significant police misconduct prosecution [in the U.S.] since the Rodney King beating case". However, the convictions were vacated on September 17, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt due to prosecutorial misconduct, and a new trial was ordered. The Justice Department appealed the decision to vacate the convictions, but a federal appeals court agreed that a new trial was warranted. However, on April 20, 2016, the five former officers pleaded guilty to various charges related to the shooting, and in return received reduced sentences ranging from three to twelve years. Three of the officers are white and two are African-American. (en)
  • Les tirs du pont Danziger (en anglais : The Danziger Bridge shootings) sont une série de coups de feu tirés au fusil d'assaut par des policiers, qui eurent lieu le 4 septembre 2005 sur le pont Danziger, à La Nouvelle-Orléans, en Louisiane, aux Sud des États-Unis d'Amérique. Six jours après que l'ouragan Katrina a provoqué une importante inondation à la Nouvelle-Orléans, le service de police de la ville a tué deux civils, James Brissette, âgé de 17 ans, et Ronald Madison, âgé de 40 ans, à l'aide de fusils d'assaut. La police de La Nouvelle-Orléans a alors tenté de masquer la réalité de ces crimes en affirmant faussement que sept policiers avaient répondu à un message de la police signalant qu'un policier avait été abattu, ajoutant que quatre suspects au moins leur avaient tiré dessus lors de leur arrivée. Le révérend Raymond Brown, à la tête de la section locale de l'association de défense des droits civiques, (en), décrit cet événement comme une « tragédie raciste » « ...a racial tragedy ». Le 5 août 2011, un jury fédéral de la Nouvelle-Orléans a condamné les cinq policiers pour une multitude de faits liés au faux témoignage, à la dissimulation d’événements et au non-respect de droits civiques. Un avocat du ministère de la justice décrit l'affaire comme « la bavure policière la plus significative depuis l'affaire du passage à tabac de Rodney King » (« the most significant police misconduct prosecution [in the U.S.] since the Rodney King beating case ». Les condamnations ont cependant été annulées le 17 septembre 2013 pour vice de procédure et un nouveau procès a été décidé. Le ministère de la justice a fait appel à la décision d'annulation des condamnations, mais une cour d'appel fédérale a considéré qu'un nouveau procès était justifié. (fr)
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  • New Orleans Police Department officers Kenneth Bowen; Robert Faulcon Jr.; Robert Gisevius Jr.; and Anthony Villavaso II. (en)
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  • On the morning of September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, members of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), ostensibly responding to a call from an officer under fire, shot and killed two civilians at the Danziger Bridge: 17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison. Four other civilians were wounded. All the victims were African-American. None were armed or had committed any crime. Madison, a mentally disabled man, was shot in the back. The shootings caused public anger and further eroded the trust New Orleans had in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina and the NOPD. (en)
  • Les tirs du pont Danziger (en anglais : The Danziger Bridge shootings) sont une série de coups de feu tirés au fusil d'assaut par des policiers, qui eurent lieu le 4 septembre 2005 sur le pont Danziger, à La Nouvelle-Orléans, en Louisiane, aux Sud des États-Unis d'Amérique. Six jours après que l'ouragan Katrina a provoqué une importante inondation à la Nouvelle-Orléans, le service de police de la ville a tué deux civils, James Brissette, âgé de 17 ans, et Ronald Madison, âgé de 40 ans, à l'aide de fusils d'assaut. (fr)
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