Monday, December 18, 2006

Cops Shot Man In Back

New Orleans police disarmed law-abiding citizens. After the citizens were disarmed, the police could more easily shoot unarmed citizens.


Witness: New Orleans cops shot man in back as he ran away
POSTED: 7:19 p.m. EST, December 18, 2006

By Drew Griffin, James Polk and Kate Albright-Hanna

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans police lined up "like at a firing range" and fatally shot an unarmed man in the back as he fled from them in the days after Hurricane Katrina swept ashore, a witness to the shooting told CNN.

It marks the first time a witness has come forward publicly with information about the shooting of Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old mentally retarded man whose death has sparked a police investigation and a grand jury probe into what happened in and around the Danziger Bridge that day.


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