A former New Orleans police lieutenant on trial for allegedly obstructing a federal probe of a deadly police shooting after Hurricane Katrina denies he tried to cover up the shooting or lied to the FBI about the case.

Former Lt. Robert Italiano oversaw the detectives' bureau in the district where 31-year-old Henry Glover was fatally shot by an officer outside a strip mall on Sept. 2, 2005, before two other officers allegedly burned Glover's body in a car.

Italiano and Lt. Travis McCabe are charged with writing and submitting a false report to impede the federal probe of Glover's death.

But Italiano testified Wednesday that he didn't do anything to falsify a report and insists he told the FBI the truth about what he knew about the case.

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