Vol. 75/No. 16      April 25, 2011

Warren shot Glover from a second-floor balcony of a strip mall. Trial testimony showed that Glover and his friend Bernard Calloway had gone to the mall to pick up supplies so they could evacuate the city.

Warren claims he shot Glover because he feared for his life. But officer Linda Howard, Warren’s partner, testified that Glover and Calloway weren’t armed and didn’t pose a threat.

A passerby, William Tanner, drove Glover and his brother Edward King to a nearby school for help, but SWAT police had commandeered the school. Tanner and King say officers beat them as Glover lay in the car bleeding to death.

The cops then confiscated the car, which McRae drove to an isolated area near a levee, and set it on fire with Glover’s body inside.

McRae claims he burned the evidence “because he was weary of seeing rotting corpses after the storm,” reported Associated Press. According to another cop’s testimony, McRae was laughing after he set the car on fire.

“Henry Glover was not at the strip mall to commit suicide. He was there to retrieve some baby clothing,” said U.S. District Judge Lance Africk. “You killed a man… . It was no mistake.”

The jurors also convicted former Lt. Travis McCabe of lying on his report on the shooting. His sentencing was postponed while his lawyers seek a new trial.

Two other cops involved in the killing were cleared by the jury, including one indicted for beating King and Tanner.

Twenty former and current cops were charged last year alone in a series of Justice Department investigations.

Two other cops are slated to go to trial this month for the beating death in July 2005 of Raymond Robair, 48, and subsequent cover-up.

A trial of five cops is scheduled in connection with the killing of two and wounding of four on the Danziger Bridge days after Katrina. In a previous trial, five other officers pleaded guilty to covering up the bridge shootings, receiving sentences ranging from three to eight years.
 
 
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