Prosecutors Charge White Man for Racially Motivated Shooting in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Nearly five years after Hurricane Katrina, federal prosecutors have charged a white man with federal hate crimes for his role in the racially motivated shooting of three black men in the aftermath of the storm. The five-count indictment accuses Roland Bourgeois of plotting to defend his Algiers Point neighborhood in New Orleans from “outsiders” including [...]

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