Six Years Later, Police Admit to Covering Up Hurricane Katrina Shooting

On Monday, a former police detective testified that he lied about witnesses, falsified reports and assisted in planting a gun–all to justify the shooting of an unarmed residents in New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina.

Jeffrey Lehrmann, a government witness in the federal trial of five current or former officers, said he saw Sgt. Arthur “Archie” Kaufman retrieve a gun from his home several weeks after the deadly shootings on the Danziger Bridge. Kaufman later turned the gun in as evidence, claiming he found it under the bridge a day after the 2005 shootings that left two people dead and four others wounded.

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