6 years later, still picking up the pieces of Katrina
Hurricane Katrina ranks as the costliest natural disaster in human history. But more than the damage wrought by Mother Nature, it is the callous disregard for the poor and black residents of Louisiana and stories of police abuse that endure as the lowest moments in that tragedy. Rumors that police had attacked and, in at least one case, murdered helpless residents of the city were disbelieved, denied, and, until now, forgotten.
William Faulkner said the past is never dead; it’s not even past. And six years later, on Monday, July 11th, a former New Orleans police detective testified that he fabricated witnesses and helped plant a gun to justify the shooting of unarmed residents on a New Orleans bridge after Katrina. From the article:
Lehrmann said the false accounts of what officers did on the bridge continually changed as they honed their cover story.
“The lies changed whenever we needed to change them,” he said.
Read the full story here: http://news.yahoo.com/ex-cop-says-helped-cover-katrina-shootings-181631947.html
In the good ol’ vein of ‘what-the-hell-is-going on’, our friend Brentin Mock highlights an interesting development in his latest column in 
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