Post-Katrina Shootings Witness: Cop Said Looters 'Deserved To Be Shot'

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AP, via HuffPost:




NEW ORLEANS — A former New Orleans police officer on trial for gunning down a man outside a strip mall in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath said after the shooting that looters are "animals" who "deserved to be shot," a fellow officer testified Friday.

The former officer, David Warren, is charged with fatally shooting 31-year-old Henry Glover before two other officers allegedly burned his body in a car. Prosecutors say Glover wasn't armed and didn't pose a threat, but Warren's lawyers say he thought Glover was a looter reaching for a weapon when he shot him.

Alec Brown, a former officer who left the force in 2008, testified that he and Warren argued about looters while patrolling after the 2005 hurricane. Brown said he defended people taking food, while Warren said looters "were all animals and they deserved to be shot, and that they were all destroying the city."

"I told him, 'That's not right,'" Brown said.

Six days after Glover's death, Brown found Glover's burned remains in a charred car abandoned on a Mississippi River levee near a police station. Brown said he reported it to a superior officer, Travis McCabe. McCabe is now a lieutenant with the department. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/12/david-warren-looters-shot-nopd-katrina_n_783061.html