During Katrina, the intersection of the Intracoastal Waterway and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet acted like a giant “V” to funnel storm surge into New Orleans East and St. Bernard Parish.

The officers acknowledged shooting at people on the bridge, but said they did so only after taking fire. Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005. In its aftermath, levees broke, flooding 80 percent of New ...

NEW ORLEANS — Seven police officers charged in a deadly bridge shooting in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina turned themselves in Tuesday at the city jail, where at least 200 emotional ...

The brazen violence and deception after the shooting on the bridge was just one of many cases of police brutality in the weeks before and after Hurricane Katrina that led to the U.S. Justice ...

"One of my father's good friends, they stole a boat, and we put our parents and grandparents on the boat and carried them to the bridge from ... to overcome from Hurricane Katrina helped shape ...

"One of my father's good friends, they stole a boat, and we put our parents and grandparents on the boat and carried them to the bridge from ... to overcome from Hurricane Katrina helped shape ...

In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating the ... just six days after Katrina hit, a police shooting on the Danziger Bridge led to the killing of two unarmed Black civilians.

In addition to the Bourgeois matter, other cases arising from post-Katrina violence included the deadly shooting by police officers of unarmed civilians at the Danziger bridge in the days after ...

In 2016, four former New Orleans police officers pleaded guilty to shooting six unarmed black civilians on the Danziger Bridge days after Hurricane Katrina, killing two and wounding the four others.

New Orleans — The city of New Orleans will announce details of settlements resolving civil rights lawsuits over deadly police shootings after Hurricane ... bridge less than a week after Katrina ...

A decade later, police plead guilty in Katrina bridge shooting by Associated Press | April 21, 2016 at 3:17 a.m. | Updated April 21, 2016 at 3:16 a.m. Associated Press | April 21, 2016 at 3:17 a.m ...

4, 2005, Danziger Bridge shooting that left two civilians dead ... said they arrived at Danziger Bridge six days after the hurricane hit the city in order to respond to reports of an officer ...