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?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...dence-in-post-katrina-vigilante-shooting.html
Plum furniture on that AK?
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/07/former_algiers_point_man_charg.htmlFormer 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.