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Six days after Hurricane Katrina, a family walked across a bridge in New Orleans looking for food and medicine. Police drove up in a rented truck and opened fire without warning. A seventeen-year-old was killed. A forty-year-old man with intellectual disabilities was shot in the back as he ran. The Danziger Bridge. September 2005. James Brissette was seventeen. Ronald Madison was forty and had the mental capacity of a child; he was with his brother Lance. Nobody on that bridge was armed. Nobody had done anything. Then came the part that turned it from a shooting into a conspiracy: officers invented witnesses. They planted a gun. They wrote a report describing a gun battle that never happened. They held meetings to get their stories straight. It went on for years. Federal prosecutors eventually broke it open. Five officers were convicted in 2011. A city was drowning. A family walked across a bridge to find food. And the cover-up lasted longer than the storm, the trial and the appeal combined. This is why we preserve the histories where lives were taken, truth was buried, and accountability came far too late. https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF