Feds open new NOPD probe

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

Feds open new NOPD probe
The Associated Press • August 14, 2010

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Del.icio.us Facebook Digg Reddit Newsvine Twitter FarkIt Type Size A A A NEW ORLEANS — The Justice Department has opened a new civil rights investigation into the alleged beating of two men by New Orleans Police in the days after Hurricane Katrina.


Justice Department spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa (So-chi E-no-ho-sa) on Friday told the Associated Press that federal authorities are investigating the alleged beatings of Ernest Bell and Robert Williams. She declined to elaborate.




The investigation follows a series of articles published in The Times-Picayune in which several NOPD officers scuffled with journalists who witnessed parts of a violent confrontation between police and two handcuffed men, according to the first-person accounts of Times-Picayune city editor Gordon Russell and Canadian journalist Lucas Oleniuk.


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[WhiteTara]

1. I'm glad this is starting to be addressed

the violence shown to the citizens of NO was horrifying and every terrible rumor seems to been proven true.