Five NOPD officers indicted in shooting, burning of Henry Glover after Katrina

Five NOPD officers indicted in shooting, burning of Henry Glover after Katrina

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A federal grand jury Friday indicted three current and two former New Orleans police officers in the death of Henry Glover, who was shot to death in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten announced.

Glover was shot and his body was left in a car behind the Algiers levee, which was torched by the officers, according to the 11-count indictment.

Former police officer David Warren, a rookie at the time, is charged with shooting and killing Glover. He was arrested and is set to appear for a bond hearing Friday before a magistrate judge, where prosecutors are expected to ask that he be held without bond until trial.

Glover was shot near the 4th District substation, according to friends and family. He was picked up by William Tanner, a good Samaritan who did not know him. Tanner has said he took Glover to Habans Elementary School for medical help because it was close by and because it had been taken over by New Orleans police.

However, Tanner and two men who rode with him and the bleeding Glover to the school that day have said police refused to help them, treating them like criminals instead. A few hours later, Tanner saw an officer drive away in his car, carrying two flares in his back pocket.

He evacuated the city later that day, without a car. Weeks later, he found the charred car on the batture with the charred remnants of Glover's body in it.

Wow, I didn't know anything about this, but reading the recounted version of what allegedly happened, it is absolutely atrocious. What a giant cluster you-know-what. The guy gets shot, a Good Samaritan tries to help him, and is assaulted by the people he asked for help from instead. Then Glover's body shows up burned in his car? WTF...oh and let's not neglect this ridiculous piece of info:

After the article appeared in the Nation, police conducted another investigation. A police report written in 2009 says that cops drove Tanner's car to the levee in order to "secure" the body.

Uh...is that even protocol? To leave a body in a car by a levee to "secure it". Are you kidding me?

According to the article, the officer who shot Glover is admitting it...now.

Glover's mother filed a missing persons report two months later. Three weeks after that the NOPD filed a report on the officer's weapon discharge, even though it happened months before. Regardless, they never made the connection that the weapons discharge and where Glover was shot were in the exact same place???

Seems ludicrous that only 5 people are being charged when it APPEARS (at least to me) that the department was trying to cover up the incident.