Man charged with post-Katrina hate crime

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Man charged with post-Katrina hate crime
11:45 AM Friday Jul 16, 2010

NEW ORLEANS - A white man accused of shooting and wounding three black men in New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath has been charged with a federal hate crime.

A five-count indictment on Thursday accuses 47-year-old Roland Bourgeois Jr. of firing a shotgun at the men in the city's Algiers Point neighbourhood while they tried to flee after the August 2005 hurricane.

Prosecutors said Bourgeois discussed shooting black people and "defending" the neighbourhood after the storm.

He allegedly retrieved a bloody baseball cap belonging to one of the victims and displayed it after the shooting.





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Roland Bourgeois Jr

[uppityperson]

1. Good. eom

[Jamastiene]

2. I'm glad they will finally be doing something about that atrocity.

Awful.

[MadMaddie]

3. Glen Beck and Sarah supporter.