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Six days and nights after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans, New Orleans Law enforcement officials Department officers opened fire on residents crossing the Danziger Bridge. Once the shooting discontinued, a psychologically challenged man and a 17-year-old guy were useless, riddled with gunshot wounds. A mother's arm was shot off, her daughter's belly gouged with a bullet opening, and her husband's head pierced by shrapnel. Her nephew was shot in the throat, jaw, belly, and palm. All six of the subjects, along with two others imprisoned at the picture, were dark and unarmed. Prior to the blood dried out, the shooters and their supervisors had hatched a cover-up. They would plant a weapon, invent witnesses, and demand two of their subjects with attempted murder. The NOPD hailed all the shooters on the bridge as heroes. Photographs on the Bridge explores one of the very most dramatic conditions of injustice within the last decade. It discloses worries that gripped the police of your city dropped into anarchy, the circumstances that led anxious survivors to go to the bridge, and the horror that erupted with the gunfire. It dissects the cover-up that practically buried the reality and the legal maze that, a decade later, leaves the subjects still looking for justice.
