Shots on the Bridge

Police Violence and Cover-up in the Wake of Katrina

De: Ronnie Greene

Narrado por: Jonathan Yen

Six days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans, New Orleans Police Department officers opened fire on residents crossing the Danziger Bridge. When the shooting stopped, a mentally challenged man and a 17-year-old boy were dead, riddled with gunshot wounds. A mother's arm was shot off, her daughter's stomach gouged with a bullet hole, and her husband's head pierced by shrapnel. Her nephew was shot in the neck, jaw, stomach, and hand. All six of the victims, along with two others arrested at the scene, were Black and unarmed.

Before the blood dried, the shooters and their supervisors had hatched a cover-up. They would plant a gun, invent witnesses, and charge two of their victims with attempted murder. The NOPD hailed all the shooters on the bridge as heroes.

Shots on the Bridge explores one of the most dramatic cases of injustice in the last decade. It reveals the fear that gripped the police of a city fallen into anarchy, the circumstances that led desperate survivors to go to the bridge, and the horror that erupted with the gunfire. It dissects the cover-up that nearly buried the truth and the legal maze that, a decade later, leaves the victims still searching for justice.

©2015 Ronnie Greene (P)2015 Tantor

Reseñas de la Crítica

"A poignant and skillful examination of a case that adds to the ongoing public debate about corrupt police practices, the militarization of local law enforcement, and convoluted legal decisions." ( Kirkus)

Awesome and Heartbreaking

The story of the terror these innocent people went through and the lack of justice they received is infuriating. You may have heard the rumors of what happened on the bridge, but this book puts it all into perspective. It’s a must read.

MUST READ

A riveting account of what really happened on the Danziger Bridge
in New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina-and the lies fabricated by the NOPD. Reading this book I felt as if I lived through that day on the bridge and the aftermath, suffered the police lies and cover-up, and the trials. This is a must read book. Harrowing. The author does a good job detailing the facts and keeping his opinions on the sidelines, at least until the final chapter when he calls out Judge Kurt Englehart for some pretty gross judicial activism, which seems like well-warranted criticism.

Heartbreaking

there are no words to explain the depravity of the killers, the failings of the justice system, or the anguish of the victims of this incomprehensible event, but Mr. Greene comes as close as any human could, and it's a compelling story read with perfection by Mr. Yen.

Unarmed

This book was so well written and narrated. The research and detail of the Danziger shooting was very impressive.
I grew up in New Orleans and I was hurt to my core for the unarmed family's who suffered unjustly and I'm sure are still suffering to this day. Well done sir! Thank you for sharing the truth. It could have been my family searching for food, water and medicine on that warm summers day, on the Danziger bridge. My prayers go out to the family's who's lives are forever changed. 🙏