None of Ronald Madison's relatives chose to speak at Wednesday's court hearing. Neither did Brissette's mother, Sherrell Johnson. Nobody spoke on behalf of Susan Bartholomew whose right arm was blown off by the police on Sept. 4, 2005. Nobody spoke on behalf of any of the pedestrians who were harm
Date: Apr 21, 2016
Category: U.S.
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5 Former New Orleans Police Officers Enter Guilty Pleas Over Danziger Bridge Killings
One of the people seriously wounded was Susan Bartholomew, who had been crossing the bridge with a group that included her two children and her husband Leonard, a longtime employee of the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board.
Date: Apr 20, 2016
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
'Shots on the Bridge' explores deadly police shooting in wake of Hurricane Katrina
The Bartholomew family had stayed in New Orleans because Susan Bartholomew, the mother, had just one van and there were 10 or 11 family members needing to get out. The van's not big enough to take everyone. And she made the decision, "If we all can't go, we're all going to stay." That's why they sta
Date: Aug 26, 2015
Category: U.S.
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5 ex-cops convicted in Danziger Bridge police shootings await sentencing
civilians, two fatally, on Sept. 4, 2005, on and near the bridge, which spans the Industrial Canal and connects Gentilly and eastern New Orleans. James Brissette, 17, and Madison were killed, while Susan Bartholomew, her husband Leonard, teenage daughter Lesha and nephew Jose Holmes Jr. were wounded.
Date: Apr 04, 2012
Category: U.S.
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Police convicted in post-Katrina shootings to hear sentences
During the six-week-long trial in 2011, lead prosecutor Barbara "Bobbi" Bernstein presented testimony from dozens of witnesses, including eastern New Orleans resident Susan Bartholomew, who lost her arm from a shotgun blast in the incident.
Date: Apr 04, 2012
Category: U.S.
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Five NOPD Cops Guilty in Post-Katrina Danziger Bridge Shootings
ridge. According to the Department of Justice, once officers arrived they began shooting into the crowd, killing two men, a teenager named James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison, a man with mental disabilities. Four others were shot, including Susan Bartholomew, who lost an arm in the shooting.
Date: Aug 05, 2011
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Danziger Bridge guilty verdicts are another strike against New Orleans police
He was killed by shotgun pellets that struck the back of his head, experts testified. Susan Bartholomew's arm was nearly blown off by a large-caliber round, and it was later amputated; she had to raise her left hand on the trial's first day to be sworn in as a witness. Her daughter's legs were torn
Date: Aug 05, 2011
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Jury convicts five police officers in post-Katrina shootings
According to the Justice Department, the evidence at trial established that officers Bowen, Gisevius, Faulcon and Villavaso opened fire on an unarmed family on the east side of the bridge, killing 17-year-old James Brissette, and wounding Susan Bartholomew, 38; Leonard Bartholomew III, 44; the B