post katrina shooting

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former New Orleans police officer to 25 years in prison for his role in the shooting death of a man and the burning of his body after Hurricane Katrina.

A New Orleans police sergeant who admitted lying to the FBI in its probe of a deadly police shooting after Hurricane Katrina has resigned.

A jury is set to deliberate for a third day about five current and former New Orleans police officers charged in the death of a man who was fatally shot before his body was burned after Hurricane Katrina.

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.