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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Well, they certainly were thorough

Second former New Orleans police officer pleads guilty in Danziger Bridge shootings

Many of the details Lohman admitted to when he pleaded guilty are reiterated by Lehrmann in documents associated his case. But the Lehrmann factual basis, which describes the facts the former NOPD is admitting, lays out a series of fresh details and allegations. These new details included the fabrication of civilian witnesses, the removal of physical evidence from the shooting scene and creation of false statements that police maintain were made by the shooting victims.


Adding... Always frugal to bring along a bag lunch..

Lehrmann also admitted that he and two sergeants rode with an investigator to the investigator's house. At that point the investigator retrieved a bag from a storage container in his garage. When asked what was in the bag, the investigator said it was "a ham sandwich." Lehrmann looked in the bag and saw the revolver that police would claim to have found under the bridge. Police would later say that gun was evidence that the civilians had shot at officers.

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