Danziger Bridge shootings
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danziger-bridge-shootings-174-5497453
title:
Danziger Bridge shootings
text:
On the morning of September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, members of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), ostensibly responding to a call from an officer under fire, shot and killed two civilians at the Danziger Bridge: 17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison. Four other civilians were wounded. All the victims were African-American. None were armed or had committed any crime. Madison, a mentally disabled man, was shot in the back. The shoot
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encyclopedia
description:
2005 police killings in New Orleans, Louisiana
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danziger_Bridge_shootings
date created:
2010-04-22T17:16:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T18:48:03Z
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