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Louisiana: No Excuse for Shooting in Storm’s Aftermath, Jurors Told
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 10, 2010
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The chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina offers no excuse for the actions of five current or former police officers being tried in the fatal police shooting of a man whose burned body was found in a car in September 2005, a federal prosecutor told jurors Wednesday. In her opening statement, Tracey Knight, the assistant United States attorney, said Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann and Officer Gregory McRae burned the body of Henry Glover to destroy evidence in the shooting death of the 31-year-old man days after the hurricane devastated New Orleans. Ms. Knight suggested that Katrina emboldened the officers. “They thought no one was watching and no one would care about Henry Glover, but they were wrong,” she told jurors.

A version of this brief appeared in print on November 11, 2010, on page A21 of the New York edition.
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