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Ex-cop sentenced in Katrina shooting cover-up

Ex-cop sentenced in Katrina shooting cover-up: "NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Michael Hunter stood quietly as a judge sentenced the former New Orleans Police officer Wednesday to eight years in federal prison for his role in the coverup and deadly shooting of unarmed civilians after Hurricane Katrina. The sentence by U.S. District Judge Sarah Vance was the maximum allowed and nine months more than the sentencing guidelines recommended. Vance called the police shooting on the Danziger Bridge that killed two and wounded four civilians, 'sickeningly brutal.' 'It is hard to imagine a more profound breach of public trust than what happened here,' Vance said. Hunter admitted firing at the people on the bridge, although he knew they were unarmed and posed no threat, but said he did not hit anyone. But Vance pointed out that he did nothing to stop his fellow officers from firing, in fact watching 'an officer shoot Ronald Madison in the back at close range.'"

Brooklyn Men Start Group To Escort People Home After Robberies | News One

Brooklyn Men Start Group To Escort People Home After Robberies

(“We Make Us Better” ) that is escorting people

home from the train station after a bunch of recent

robberies in their Bed-Stuy neighborhood.

The New York Daily News reports: After a spate of recent muggings

and robberies, a group of 20 Bedford-Stuyvesant men

started escorting people home as they got off the train and

are walking through the neighborhood reaching out to

young men. “We’re not the

Guardian Angels,

we’re not armed,

”said Kareem Varlack,

35, a field technician for Verizon and a founding

member of the group We Make Us Better."