This doesn’t surprise us, more shady a$s cops:
A former New Orleans police officer was convicted Thursday of fatally shooting a man in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath and another officer was convicted of burning the man’s body in a case that exposed one of the ugliest chapters in the police department’s troubled history.
A federal jury also convicted a third officer of writing a false report on the deadly shooting of 31-year-old Henry Glover, but two others were acquitted of charges stemming from the alleged cover-up. The jury of five men and seven women convicted former officer David Warren of manslaughter in the shooting death of 31-year-old Henry Glover outside a strip mall on Sept. 2, 2005. Prosecutors said Warren shot an unarmed man in the back.
Officer Gregory McRae was convicted of burning Glover’s body in a car. Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann was acquitted of that charge. Both were cleared of charges they beat the men who had brought the dying Glover to a makeshift police compound in search of help.
Lt. Travis McCabe was convicted of writing a false report on the shooting and lying to the FBI and a grand jury. Lt. Robert Italiano was cleared of charges he submitted the false report and lied to the FBI. “This was a case that needed to be aired,” U.S. District Judge Lance Africk said after the verdicts were read aloud.
Some of the officers hugged each other before they left the courtroom, while their relatives tried to console each other. Glover’s relatives sobbed as they embraced each other.
Rebecca Glover, Henry’s aunt, said the verdict doesn’t close the case for her. “This has been a long, anguishing time,” she said. “All of them should have been found guilty. They were all in on it.”
R.I.P.
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