Huffington Post: "Will There Be Justice in New Orleans?" Please Repost
" This week The Nation reports on a stunning scandal in New Orleans. Our cover story,Katrina's Hidden Race War
, is the result of a tireless 18-month investigation by A.C. Thompson, exposing for the first time a rash of vigilante shootings in New Orleans, as white residents in the Algiers Point neighborhood formed an ad hoc militia and opened fire on black residents fleeing the Lower Ninth Ward for the nearest rescue point. In total, our report uncovered 11 separate incidents."
You can read the rest of the Huffington post article here
and sign the petition here
to, as the website says, "tell Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the racist shootings, and to demand accountability from Louisiana's dysfunctional criminal justice system."
Yet another situation where the appalling racist violence of individual perpetrators is supported by the system through the complicity and ignorance of law enforcement and government departments, among others.
, is the result of a tireless 18-month investigation by A.C. Thompson, exposing for the first time a rash of vigilante shootings in New Orleans, as white residents in the Algiers Point neighborhood formed an ad hoc militia and opened fire on black residents fleeing the Lower Ninth Ward for the nearest rescue point. In total, our report uncovered 11 separate incidents."
You can read the rest of the Huffington post article here
and sign the petition here
to, as the website says, "tell Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the racist shootings, and to demand accountability from Louisiana's dysfunctional criminal justice system."
Yet another situation where the appalling racist violence of individual perpetrators is supported by the system through the complicity and ignorance of law enforcement and government departments, among others.