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Shots on the Bridge

Police Violence and Cover-up in the Wake of Katrina

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Shots on the Bridge

Written by: Ronnie Greene
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
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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 17-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.

©2015 Ronnie Greene (P)2015 Tantor Freedom & Security Politics & Government Racism & Discrimination True Crime United States New Orleans
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"A poignant and skillful examination of a case that adds to the ongoing public debate about corrupt police practices, the militarization of local law enforcement, and convoluted legal decisions." ( Kirkus)

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Grim story

There wasn’t much about this book to uplift one’s spirits, but it’s important that it has been written. The actions of these cops sickened me, and justice is had to find. Well researched though, narration was good. But I am left wanting to forget…

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