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Six days after Hurricane Katrina devastates the area, New Orleans police officers reportedly receive a call from an unidentified person reporting gunfire at Danziger Bridge. Several NOPD officers arrive at the scene and open fire, killing Ronald Madison and James Brissette and seriously wounding four others.
1 day ago · By the 1930s, lynchings and other forms of “popular justice” used to enforce white supremacy in America had declined, and Jim Crow laws were coming under increasing scrutiny. As historian Jeffrey S. Adler writes, that helps explain a dramatic rise in New Orleans police detectives’ use of torture methods known as “the third degree ...
Aug 18, 2015 · Ronnie Greene's new book explores a case dating back to the days after Hurricane Katrina, when New Orleans police officers shot six unarmed civilians on the Danziger Bridge in East New...
Apr 20, 2016 · Nearly five years after a federal jury found them guilty of either gunning down unarmed civilians or covering up the incident on New Orleans' Danziger Bridge, five former police officers have...
Aug 30, 2013 · During the 1979 police strike, NOPD Officer John C. “J.C.” Raphael Jr. and his police partner Ronald Recasner continued working. They were pursuing the “Kissing Bandit,” a violent sex offender who terrorized the university area of Uptown.
Aug 5, 2011 · Several of the officers then chased Ronald and Lance Madison, two brothers, to the other side of the bridge, where Mr. Faulcon shot Ronald, a 40-year-old mentally disabled man, in the back.
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