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A harrowing story of blue on black violence, of black lives that seemingly did not matter.On September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans, two groups of people intersected on the Danziger Bridge, a low-rising expanse over the Industrial Canal. One was the police who had stayed behind as Katrina roared near, desperate to maintain control as their city spun into chaos. The other was the residents forced to stay behind with them during the storm and, on that fateful Sunday, searching for the basics of survival: food, medicine, security. They collided that morning in a frenzy of gunfire.When the shooting stopped, a gentle forty-year-old man with the mind of a child lay slumped on the ground, seven bullet wounds in his back, his white shirt turned red.
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Ronnie Greene is Washington Enterprise Editor for Reuters. Before joining Reuters, Greene was project editor for Breathless and Burdened, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. He is the author of Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, and Margie Richard's Fight to Save Her Town.
