Algiers Point: Man charged w/ shootings after Katrina

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Watch the 1st and 2nd vids.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...dence-in-post-katrina-vigilante-shooting.html

Plum furniture on that AK?

Former Algiers Point man charged with shooting African Americans in aftermath of Katrina

Roland J. Bourgeois Jr. was charged in a five-count indictment today with committing a hate crime with a deadly weapon in connection with a shooting that happened in the days after Hurricane Katrina.

According to the indictment, on Sept. 1, 2005, Bourgeois fired a shotgun at three African-American men because of their race and because they were attempting to use the public streets in the Algiers Point neighborhood of New Orleans.

Bourgeois plotted with others to defend Algiers Point "from outsiders, including African-Americans who did not reside in Algiers Point," according to the indictment. He also allegedly used racial epithets in reference to African-Americans and bragged after shooting a black man that he had "got one."

People identified Bourgeois as the shooter in an article published earlier this year by The Times-Picayune, ProPublica, and PBS "Frontline."

Donnell Herrington was wounded by a shotgun blast to the back as he walked in the neighborhood with two other black men. The group sought to evacuate from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

After Bourgeois fired a shotgun at the three men walking on a public street, he learned that one of his victims had been wounded and he announced that he was going to kill African-Americans, the indictment alleges.

Bourgeois, who now lives in Columbia, Miss., then allegedly warned a black resident of Algiers Point that, "anything coming up this street darker than a brown paper bag is getting shot."

Immediately following the shooting, Bourgeois retrieved from the scene -- and subsequently displayed -- a bloody baseball cap that belonged to one of the victims.

Today's indictment was announced by Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Thomas E. Perez; U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana Jim Letten; and Special Agent in Charge of the FBI New Orleans Field Office David Welker.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/07/former_algiers_point_man_charg.html

 

[themcfarland]

is there a statute of limitations involved?

 

[charlie12]

"After Bourgeois fired a shotgun at the three men walking on a public street, he learned that one of his victims had been wounded and he announced that he was going to kill African-Americans, the indictment alleges"

I really bet he said "Africa-Americans"

I wonder if he went over the bag limit?

 

[madmax4x4]

"After Bourgeois fired a shotgun at the three men walking on a public street, he learned that one of his victims had been wounded and he announced that he was going to kill African-Americans, the indictment alleges"

I really bet he said "Africa-Americans"

I wonder if he went over the bag limit?

Dang, come on man.
I will say watching that video pissed me off. It's a race war because people in a neighborhood had guns and radio's. I saw white guys in pickup truck "hootin' and hollerin'... WTF

Sure some, like the jackass above could not get control of him self but many couldn't. If everyone could you would not see looting in the first place.

 

[my-rifle]

That's #1Bambam's neighborhood. Hey B! What up? Didn't you stay during the storm and the aftermath? You see anything like this?

 

[MRBULLRED]

 

[jayd]

One has the right to remain silent
Anything said can and will be used against you...........

 

[#1bambam]

That's #1Bambam's neighborhood. Hey B! What up? Didn't you stay during the storm and the aftermath? You see anything like this?

I evacuated with my wife and youngest daughter and I returned around 5 days later.I learned more about this today than I have ever heard before.When I got back my landlord who owns several propertys asked me to check his personal and other houses.None were looted.There were no big truckloads of white guys riding around that I saw unless they were in uniform.There were some neighbors that were walking around during the day but I never heard them say they were joyfully hunting.At nite that I would get on top of my house and look over into the city and would hear plenty of random gunfire from there.The bus barn thats close to the corner was robbed of all its buses though and a store was gutteddown twards the base.My hood is the safest place in New Orleans and I have several black neighbors that dident get shot during Katrina. I feel sorry for the guy if it did go down like that it would be a terrible thing to have to go through.

 

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is there a statute of limitations involved?

For the crime he's charged with, I think it's 6 years in Louisiana.

I wonder if he went over the bag limit?

WDSU got a hold on some video where a guy claimed to have killed 38 looters in Algiers.

Someone posted the vid a while ago.
[YOUTUBE]Gy0zP4pYkSo[/YOUTUBE]

 

[#1bambam]

Ok this guys girlfriend had it right this guy had a wild imagination.When I got back he was riding around in his truck with a wetsuit on carrying a spear gun saying he was ready for the flood that was going to hit us.(Rita).I dont belive he killed anything but a lot of alcohol.There was no sighns in the streets like the one in the video by the time I got back.

 

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Former Algiers man is mentally unfit to stand trial in shooting of three black men after Hurricane Katrina, judge rules

A former Algiers resident is mentally unfit to stand trial for allegedly shooting three black men after Hurricane Katrina, a federal magistrate ruled Wednesday. The federal trial of Roland J. Bourgeois Jr., 47, of Mississippi, was scheduled to begin next month following several delays.

But on Wednesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Louis Moore, after reviewing several medical and psychiatric reports, ordered Bourgeois into the hospital under federal custody.

Moore, acting on doctors' recommendations, ruled that Bourgeois is "unable to understand the nature and consequence of the proceedings against him or to assist properly in his defense."

Bourgeois will remain hospitalized for up to four months before he is re-evaluated. Bourgeois had been free on bond since his indictment last summer.
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Bourgeois' doctors, as well as outside specialists, have testified that is terminally ill and suffers from numerous maladies. At his arraignment in August of last year, Bourgeois, confined to a wheelchair, appeared frail, confused, and much older and weaker than his age. Doctors estimated he had between six months and a year to live.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/09/former_algiers_resident_is_men.html

 

[Moondew]

Mentally unfit? Did he drink too much 'shine between Katrina and while he lived free in Miss.?

 

[lsu fan]

Interesting reads...


http://www.oxfordpress.com/news/content/shared/news/nation/stories/09/10KATRINA_ALGIERS.html

http://www.thenation.com/article/katrinas-hidden-race-war?page=0,6

 

[jgreco15]

African Americans? How does anybody know if these people are from Africa? I would be willing to bet that they are just black people, not people who moved to the US from an African country.

 

[my-rifle]

I believe that is what we call a "euphemism".

 

[my-rifle]

I don't know how many of you were here in in New Orleans the weeks immediately following Katrina, but we were all afraid. Everyone was worried that the rumored armed gangs were going to show up at any moment, or the army was going to open up on you for doing things that were ordinarily legal. Everyone felt like we had to take the law into our own hands, since there was little sign of organized law and order. While the reputed delight this man took in shooting unarmed black people sounds pretty reprehensible, the armed barricades and paranoia was de rigeur. Many New Orleaneans returned to empty neighborhoods, and the smell of rotten organic stuff coupled with the flies and the strangers wandering about was pretty unnerving - specially after what in retrospect was wildly irresponsible reporting by - well everyone. We all expected the worst, and I feel that in this case as well as the Danziger Bridge case these factors should be taken into account. A lot of the crazy things that went on after Katrina really need to be analyzed in that light, and mitigated by the same.

 

[Russo]

tough situation...