Shots on the Bridge : Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina (Hardcover)

from kristincedar

Certainly fitting, not just in timeliness for the city, but for my own personal life as well. This past Monday I moved to New Orleans after only having a tertiary exposure to the city. While Shots on the Bridge doesn't open up any revolutionary theories, the dialogue needed to be had about such a...

from Julie_Fey

Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina is an account of a shooting by the New Orleans Police of unarmed African American citizens on the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans days after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. I found this book by Ronnie Green as a wake up...

from utacraft

Just after the floods in the New Orleans, there was a shooting on the Danzinger Bridge on September 5,2005. Innocent and unarmed people were shot by police, the NOPD hailed all the shooters as heroes. For years there was a cover-up and false testimony, it was not until much later that William Bez...

from SeriousGrace

Ronnie Greene wants to send a strong message. Before he even gets to the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina he wants to make sure you understand this: historically, New Orleans has been a city of crooked cops. He outlines other incidents of police brutality and corruption that went on before Se...

from Carrie.Kilgore

Well researched story of a horrific shooting in the aftermath of Katrina. The author is fair, outlining the events and circumstances that led to the shooting of two unarmed black families by police. One can at least understand how such a tragedy came to pass. The true horror is the cover-up than ...