The Killing of Henry Glover: Who Else Knew?

When I began investigating the mysterious death of Henry Glover, one of the most notable aspects of the case was the lack of documents.

Here was a New Orleans resident found incinerated in a car just a few hundred feet from a police station in September 2005, shortly after Hurricane Katrina. Yet there was no sign that anyone in authority had ever conducted any sort of investigation. The New Orleans Police Department told me in 2008 that they knew absolutely nothing about Glover’s demise.

Today’s indictment suggests that was not true. The 11-count indictment accuses police officers of shooting Glover and torching his corpse, physically attacking his brother and another man, and then attempting to conceal it all.

What’s most striking about the charging documents is what they do not address: The extraordinary number of officers in the department who were likely aware of these events as they unfolded.

To recap:

David Warren, the former officer indicted for allegedly shooting Glover with a .223 rifle round, was accompanied by another officer when he fired the shot.


William Tanner
At that point, a man named William Tanner tried to help Glover, driving him and his brother to seek medical assistance at an elementary school that had been commandeered by a SWAT team of officers. (Tanner didn’t know that Glover had allegedly been shot by a police officer.)

http://www.propublica.org/nola/story/the-killing-of-henry-glover-who-else-knew/

This is fucked up.:mad: :puke:

And the number of formal complaints & legal CHARGES against police officers for assault, etc. was astounding. It doesn't look like they've cleaned up their act at all. What a shame.

Arrested and put in jail
If you did what they did they would arrest you

were out shooting citizens instead of protecting and helping them.

Many of the rumors that were going around at the time, have turned out to be true. I guess they thought that because of the chaos, no one would ever know what they did.

Glad that it has not bee swept under the rug, the way the criminal negligence that made it all possible has been. Instead of being charged with negligence, Chertoff, Bush and Cheney have profited from a disaster that could have been prevented.