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Operation Golden Eagle, the new collaborative partnership between the Louisiana State Police and the New Orleans Police Department, began Tuesday (June 1). Though Mayor LaToya Cantrell is unable to quantify exactly how many state troopers are participating, both she and NOPD Superintendent Shaun D. Ferguson are quick to note that the emphasis is on “constitutional […]

You cant download on-the-go, theres no dvr, yada yada yada. stream some stuff! somewhere! sometimes! you totally nailed that buddy. simple. dont let directv now limit your entertainment. only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. new orleans will pay out $13 million to settle civil rights lawsuits linked to police shootings in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. this stems from fatal confrontations from police officers and unarmed civil answcivilians on danzinger bridge. 20 police of...

History, but they do have very real challenges and proliferation of guns is one. you have the chicago police chief saying we cant have ak-47s on the streets of chicago. when you take the two sides to the coin, the capacity to criminalize black bodies like in this awful shooting at danzinger bridge and then the challenges that police institutions face, we dont want to demonize the place, we know theres challenges, but theres a wide gap across those two challenges. >> let me push back a little on ...

Unit" correspondent drew griffin is here. the mayor is really trying to turn things around. >> and hes targeting the police department of new orleans. 16 new orleans police officers are now either under indictment or have pleaded guilty in post-katrina related shootings. police officers. two more likely to be indicted. the revelations just now coming out five years later showing cover-ups, planted guns by police, witnesses that the police simply made up. and in one terrible case a mentally disab...

Danzinger bridge six days after katrina hit the city. the officers say they open fire in self-defense. two much their supervisors were also indicted on charges of obstructing justice. in the aba ham mas a guilty plea by the barefoot bandit. thats colton harris-moore being led into court today. he paid a $350 fine for landing his plane illegally on the island. hes in miami where hell face several charges in federal court. hes been on the run since escaping a juvenile halfway house in washington...

Unarmed family on the east side of the danzinger bridge and then two brothers on the other side of that bridge. four people were injured, two died including a 40-year-old man with a severe mental handicap. were told he had been shot in the back while running away. prosecutors also claim the officers along with their supervisors tried to cover it up planting a gun, falsifying witness statements and paperwork. blaming others who were there. a fourth officer has also been charged and has not yet en...

Talk about competitive parents and competitive sports. back when george steinbrenner was a kid, he played track and field. if he ever came in second place, his father would pull him off to the side and say, not good job son, he would say, what the hell happened there? thats what his father would say to him. george credits that with giving him the competitive nails to make the yankees a success. were also watching developing news, attorney general eric holder about to announce those new federal...

Crimes. theres been some people who have been financially injured and they may not be made whole based upon this whole situation. >> all right, clint, its always good to talk to you. thanks so much. we want to take you now to new orleans. we have been waiting for this press conference to get underway. new indictments for the shootings on the danzinger bridge. >> with speaconspiracy to obstr justice and conduct a cover-up and conspiracy to violate the civil rights of jose 40e78s on the bridge b...

Vehicle, firing their weapons at something. impossible to tell what from this news crews vantage point. within hours new orleans police were giving their version of events. they said a gang of armed men shot at police first and police had returned fire. a very different story emerged later. the people on the danzinger bridge that day were unarmed, crossing the bridge apparently to try to find food and a safe place to stay as their city drowned. but a police call came in saying officers were bein...

Detective who pleaded guilty to helping cover up a deadly shooting of an unarmed resident after hurricane katrina. officers killed six people and wounded four others on the danzinger bridge days after katrina. a key piece of evidence was this exclusive video of the incident. it was captured by an nbc news photographer. he now works as a u.s. immigration agent. he pleaded guilty on march 11th. another former police officer also pleaded guilty, and a third is indicted and is also expected to plead...