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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Six days after Hurricaine Katrina devastated New Orleans two families were making their way across the Danzinger bridge to find food and shelter. A Budget truck screeched to a halt and the men inside opened fire on the people resulting in two deaths and many injuries. The men were NOPD officers and were reporting to an 'officer down' call. In the hours and days after the officers and their superiors fabricate a story to cover up their wrong doing which resulted in the arrests of some of the innocent family members. This is such a heart wrenching account of the Danzinger Bridge shootings and cover-up. The shootings were done by men trying to help the citizens of New Orleans during a time of devestation and overwhelming adversity. Instead they tried to cover up their lack of following police procedure and staggering violence by framing innocent people.It took years of the families and their lawyers to finally get justice served. This was a good book, The author was well informed about the events. The book got a little dry with the legal descriptions toward the end. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. As if the devastation of Katrina wasn't enough the aftermath, what happened on the Danziger Bridge and the cover up is even more tragic. You ask yourself "How could this happen?" This book tells of the corruption in law enforcement in New Orleans not only in the police department but also in the courts. Was justice ever served? Some will say yes, some will say no, but whatever the outcome this book is a must read. I received this from LibraryThing Early Reviewer for an honest review. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I received this book as part of the Early Reviewers program. This is the story of events that occurred during Hurricane Katrina that left two unarmed people dead and four others seriously wounded all at the hands of police officers. This is a story of race, corruption, and pure evil behavior by those hired to protect all citizens. This story was very heartbreaking and still lives families without justice. I can honestly say that although this is a fascinating, heart wrenching story it was difficult to follow along with due to the introduction of so many characters. However, the basis beyond the story and the telling of the cover up that was involved was very interesting. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Engrossing, easy to read. The last 1/4 of the book was dry however. read like a text book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"A gripping tale of police brutality, investigating the cover-up of a deadly NOLA cops' shooting of six unarmed civilians, published on the tenth anniversary of Katrina. Six days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans, New Orleans Police Department officers opened fire on residents crossing the Danziger Bridge. When the shooting stopped, a mentally challenged man and a seventeen-year-old boy were dead, riddled with gunshot wounds. A mother's arm was shot off, her daughter's stomach gouged with a bullet hole, and her husband's head pierced by shrapnel. Her nephew was shot in the neck, jaw, stomach, and hand. All six of the victims, along with two others arrested at the scene, were black and unarmed. Before the blood dried, the shooters and their supervisors had hatched a cover-up. They would plant a gun, invent witnesses, and charge two of their victims with attempted murder. The NOPD hailed all the shooters on the bridge as heroes. Shots on the Bridge explores one of the most dramatic cases of injustice in the last decade. It reveals the fear that gripped the police of a city fallen into anarchy, the circumstances that led desperate survivors to go to the bridge, and the horror that erupted with the gunfire. It dissects the cover-up that nearly buried the truth and the legal maze that, a decade later, leaves the victims still searching for justice"--
"On Sunday September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans, two sets of lives intersected on the Danziger Bridge. One was the police who stayed behind as Katrina roared near, desperate to maintain control as their city spun into chaos. The other was the residents buried by the storm and, this Sunday morning, searching for survival. The police and survivors collide in a frenzy of gunfire. The Shots on the Bridge explores one of the most dramatic cases of injustice seen in our country in the last decade - the massacre of innocent people, carried out by members of the New Orleans Police Department, in the brutal, disorderly days following Hurricane Katrina. It takes the reader into the heart of post-Katrina New Orleans, revealing the fear that gripped the police of a city slid into anarchy, the circumstances that led desperate survivors to arrive on the bridge that morning, and the horror that erupted when the police opened fire. It dissects the cover-up that nearly buried the truth, and the legal maze that, a decade later, leaves the victims still searching for justice. It profiles the victims on the bridge, and the officers who, racing to the bridge after a distress call, unloaded their weapons. Equal parts human saga, police procedural, and legal narrative, The Shots on the Bridge reveals a civil rights struggle for justice in a nation still grappling with cases of police misconduct, and the victims of the blue wall of silence"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This is such a heart wrenching account of the Danzinger Bridge shootings and cover-up. The shootings were done by men trying to help the citizens of New Orleans during a time of devestation and overwhelming adversity. Instead they tried to cover up their lack of following police procedure and staggering violence by framing innocent people.It took years of the families and their lawyers to finally get justice served.
This was a good book, The author was well informed about the events. The book got a little dry with the legal descriptions toward the end. ( )