Ex-Cop To Be Sentenced For Katrina Shootings Cover-Up
October 5th, 2011 1:44 pm Associated PressNEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge is prepared to sentence one of five former police officers who pleaded guilty to helping cover up deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina.
Federal prosecutors are urging U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman to be lenient when he sentences Ignatius Hills on Wednesday for participating in a cover-up of the Danziger Bridge shootings, which killed two people and wounded four others less than a week after the 2005 storm.
