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Justice at Last?
Justice at Last?
posted by Esther Kaplan
02/13/2010 @ 1:11pm
The Nation
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The Notion
<http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/529732/justice_at_last>
Justice may finally be imaginable for Edna Glover and her family. The
charred remains of her son Henry were discovered in the burnt hulk of a
car on a levee overlooking the Mississippi River a week after Hurricane
Katrina hit New Orleans. But she'd never gotten any answers. When A.C.
Thompson began to investigate the suspicious death for The Nation two
years later, Edna had yet to be contacted by the New Orleans police or any
other law enforcement official.
But Thompson's year-and-a-half-long probe, led by the Investigative Fund
at The Nation Institute with additional support from ProPublica, sparked
an FBI investigation last spring that is finally bearing fruit. An article
in the New Orleans Times-Picayune today by Pro Publica's Thompson and the
Times-Pic's Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi, reveals that a former NOPD
officer, David Warren, in under investigation for the murder.
New Orleans police officer under investigation in shooting in days after
Katrina
By The Times-Picayune
February 13, 2010, 9:45AM
By Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi, staff writers
and A.C. Thompson, ProPublica
New Orleans Metro Crime and Courts News
Tracking local crime, criminal justice and courts news in metro New
Orleans, Louisiana
NOLA.com
<http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/02/
new_orleans_police_officer_une.html>
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<http://tinyurl.com/yavetoo>
A former New Orleans police officer is under investigation for shooting
Henry Glover outside an Algiers strip mall four days after Hurricane
Katrina, the first act in a bizarre chain of events that has led to a
massive federal probe into the city's Police Department.
Glover's burnt remains were found weeks after the August 2005 storm inside
an abandoned, nearly incinerated car on the Algiers levee.
Over the past year, the U.S. Department of Justice has interviewed scores
of officers in an effort to determine how the 31-year-old Glover died, as
well as whether officers may have tried to cover up his death.
William Tanner, an Algiers resident, has described his effort to get
medical treatment from police for Glover's gunshot wound. Tanner has
alleged that a group of officers from the SWAT unit detained and beat him
and two other men, refused medical care for Glover, and eventually drove
off in Tanner's car, with Glover's body inside.
But it was never known who had shot Glover. Now, several sources and a
defense attorney confirm that federal investigators believe that then-NOPD
officer David Warren shot Glover.
Rookie reassigned in days after Katrina
Warren, 47, was a rookie on the force assigned to the 7th District in
eastern New Orleans when the storm struck. He was unable to get to his
post and was directed to the 4th District in Algiers, according to his
attorney, Joseph Albe.
On Friday, Sept. 2, 2005 -- four days into the flood -- Warren and his
patrol partner encountered two men behind a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant
near the intersection of Seine Drive and Texas Drive, Albe said.
Glover was at that location that afternoon with a friend when he was shot,
according to family members.
Warren, in uniform, saw two men ge out of a truck and "charge" toward a
business, Albe said. Warren believed they were going to loot the business.
"He yelled stop, halt, whatever," Albe said. "They didn't."
Warren, an expert marksman, pulled the trigger on his rifle. A shot rang
out.
"After he fired, the guys turned around and ran off," Albe said.
Warren, who Albe said doesn't know exactly where the bullet landed, then
called ranking officers and reported the shooting.
"He did exactly what he was supposed to have done," Albe said.
Though the location, the date, time and circumstances square with civilian
accounts, Albe maintains there is no evidence that shows Warren shot
Glover.
"Did David Warren shoot his gun? Yes. He shot one shot. Do we know whether
it was Henry Glover? No ... We may never know."
Warren never wrote a report on the shooting incident.
"He was told not to" by ranking officers, Albe said. "Plus, an officer
involved in a shooting doesn't write his own report."
A report written more than a week after the incident classified the
shooting as a "miscellaneous incident," a designation given to minor
matters that typically receive no follow-up, the attorney said.
Albe and other attorneys representing the officers under investigation
have said the chaotic circumstances after Katrina need to be taken into
consideration when judging officers' actions.
"It wasn't 'protect and serve,'" Albe said Friday. "It was protect
themselves. It was a question of survival."
An unconventional officer
Warren is no longer with the NOPD. He joined the department as a recruit
in December 2003 and was sworn in as an officer in May 2004. He left the
force in 2008, according to civil service records.
He was an unconventional rookie: He joined the force mid-career and holds
several degrees, including a master's of business administration degree
from the University of Wisconsin, according to his personnel file.
His resume also states he has worked in the armed services, and
participated in "use of force and threat assessment" training at the
Lethal Force Institute Inc. At the NOPD's graduation for his recruit
class, Warren was honored with a precision shooting award for having the
highest cumulative score during firearms training.
<snip>
Tanner's account of what happened to Glover first appeared in a 2008
article published in The Nation magazine and on the Web site of
ProPublica, an investigative newsroom. Despite repeated inquiries by
Tanner about what happened to his car, the New Orleans Police Department
had not previously opened an investigation into Glover's death or the
incineration of his corpse.
The story prompted a federal inquiry. Since then, dozens of officers,
including the current and former superintendents, as well as other top
brass, have appeared before a federal grand jury. The U.S. Department of
Justice, working with the local FBI office and the U.S. attorney's office,
has issued countless subpoenas to the NOPD, and interviewed several
officers.
The federal investigation into Glover's death is one of several active
probes into the NOPD. A grand jury examining the well-publicized Danziger
Bridge shooting -- in which two men were killed by police and four others
were shot -- commenced last spring. The FBI also has an open investigation
into the fatal police shooting death of Adolph Grimes III, 22, who was
killed in an encounter with officers on New Year's Day 2009.
New Orleans Police Officer Under Investigation in Shooting in Days After
Katrina
Pro Publica
<http://www.propublica.org/nola/story/
new-orleans-police-officer-under-investigation-in-shooting-0210>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yz7q2bo>
Body of Evidence By A.C. Thompson
This article appeared in the January 5, 2009 edition of The Nation.
December 17, 2008
<http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090105/thompson2>
At the St. Gabriel facility, a team of rescue workers and forensic
pathologists gave the collection of body fragments a number--06-00189--and
began trying to answer a pair of intertwined questions: who was this man,
and how did he die?
Dr. Kevin Whaley, a forensic pathologist, had an immediate suspicion about
the latter. "My first reaction was that it was a homicide," recalls
Whaley, a Virginia state medical examiner who went to Louisiana as part of
a federal disaster response team. "When I heard he was found in a burned
car I thought that was a classic homicide scenario: you kill someone and
burn the body to get rid of the evidence."
Whaley studied a full-body X-ray of the remains. "There wasn't very much
left of him," Whaley says. "Pretty much most of him had gone to ash." He
figures victim 06-00189 must have been burned at an extremely hot
temperature, somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 degrees. Mixed in with the
bones and cinders, the scan revealed, was a constellation of metal bits;
the autopsy report notes "rib fractures with minute fragments of metal
within the surrounding soft tissues." From the X-rays, Whaley couldn't
tell if the metal chunks were the remnants of a bullet or a knife
blade--either way, they looked to him like evidence of a possible murder.
In Whaley's view, the case should have been treated as a possible
homicide. But Orleans Parish coroner Frank Minyard ruled the death
"unclassified" after what appears to have been a cursory inquiry. And in
the end no law enforcement agency ever probed the matter, and no media
outlet ever reported on the enigmatic case of the burned man, who was
eventually identified, via DNA analysis, as Henry Glover, 31.
Team 4: New Evidence In Post-Katrina Murder Mystery (UPDATED)
Investigator Jim Parsons Reports From New Orleans
POSTED: 8:29 am EDT July 9, 2009
UPDATED: 11:15 pm EDT July 9, 2009
WTAE ABC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
<http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/20001546/detail.html>
When Glover's remains were finally retrieved and turned into the local
coroner, there were charred bone fragments -- a hyoid bone and some rib
bones -- but nothing else. Specifically, no skull. But in Istvan Balogh's
video, there was a skull with two holes in it.
Balogh in 2005: "This is the skull. You can see it was shot in the head.
There's no question about it. That's an exit wound right there."
Forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht agreed to look at the video of the
skull. He says there are two likely explanations for the holes. Intense
heat from the fire is one. The other?
Wecht: "I would agree that it could well be a defect caused by a gunshot
wound."
Wecht says if the skull had not vanished, he could have determined for
sure what caused those holes. Still, until Team 4 discovered the
videotape, investigators likely didn't know there was a skull with
fractures.
Rafael Goyeneche, Metropolitan Crime Commission: "That will be yet another
tool that law enforcement, particularly the Justice Department, may now
have available to them with this video."
Rafael Goyeneche, a former prosecutor here, says he has confidence in the
Justice Department investigation of Glover's death, but not the one being
conducted by NOPD.
Goyeneche: "New Orleans -- particularly the New Orleans Police Department
-- has an abysmal record, as far as honesty and integrity."
Team 4 caught up with New Orleans' mayor on the Glover case following an
impromptu news conference.
Parsons: "It took your department three years to even start investigating
this after there was some reporting on the death of Henry Glover. Does
that concern you?"
Mayor Ray Nagin, D-New Orleans: "Well, we had a little event called
Hurricane Katrina, so it took us a little time to get through all the
issues. We've had many claims, but this one seems like it has a little
more legs and, therefore, the FBI is involved."
The two Pittsburgh private investigators say they did tell local and
federal law enforcement agents about the burned-out car while they were in
New Orleans in 2005.
But it wasn't until recently -- when Team 4 connected their video to
reporting on this case by propublica.org and The Nation -- that the
Pittsburgh men realized they had captured important evidence in a possible
police cover-up, and they have since turned over their videotape to the
FBI.
More on this developing case:
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=
1T4DAUS_enUS314US314&q=%22Henry+Glover%22+
and+%22new+orleans%22&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&oq=>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ygw56y8>
PBS Frontline on Post-Katrina Police Shootings
By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica
February 9, 2010 5:45 pm EST
Pro Publica
<http://www.propublica.org/nola/story/
pbs-frontline-on-post-katrina-police-shootings-209/>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yab6ftt>
Late last year, we at ProPublica, along with the New Orleans
Times-Picayune and PBS "Frontline," unveiled Law & Disorder, an ongoing
project examining violent encounters between police and civilians in the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Tonight our partners at Frontline are launching a new Law & Disorder site,
with fresh video, audio, photos, and documents. Taking you deeper into our
earlier stories, the new site has video interviews with the key figures,
as well as the reporters who put the pieces together.
During the week after the storm roared ashore, police shot at least 10
people, killing a minimum of four. Our project raises questions about
whether officers needed to use deadly force in all these instances, and
documents the New Orleans Police Department's flawed and cursory
investigations of the shootings.
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Glover v. City of New Orleans
803 So. 2d 60 - La: Court of Appeal, 4th Circuit, 2001 - Google Scholar
Edith Glover, Wife of and Henry GLOVER v. The CITY OF NEW ORLEANS Through
the NEW ORLEANS POLICE DEPARTMENT. No. ... We find that the New Orleans
Police Department and the City of New Orleans acted reasonably when
attempting to arrest Henry Glover, Jr. ...
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