Shots on the Bridge by Ronnie Greene

Shots on the Bridge by Ronnie Greene

Author:Ronnie Greene [Greene, Ronnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8070-3351-7
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2015-07-14T16:00:00+00:00


FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, it was time to act.

They began on the outside, approaching Detective Jeffrey Lehrmann, who worked closely with Kaufman in crafting the initial reports. The Feds could have subpoenaed Lehrmann to appear before a grand jury, but they invited him to come in voluntarily with his lawyer. At the meeting, agents and prosecutors pressed buttons, saying the official police story was pockmarked with holes.

Lehrmann rose from his seat and began pacing the room. He did not agree to cooperate, as least not yet, but Lehrmann did share a nugget. He told authorities that Kaufman and Dugue had written yet another, thirty-two page police report about the shootings, but never released it. That nugget fueled Bezak and Bernstein.

On August 5, 2009, eight months after the first cordial chat with Kaufman, the FBI obtained a search warrant to seize Kaufman and Dugue’s offices and computers. Bezak found the thirty-two-page report in one of Kaufman’s thumb drives and portions on a diskette in Dugue’s desk. It was investigative gold, infused with details left out of the official fifty-four-page report, including the fullest description to date of which officers fired which weapons.

The media got wind of the searches and suddenly the story was back in the press. And now it came with a provocative question: Was the US Attorney’s Office exploring a cover-up in the Danziger Bridge shootings?

“FBI Seizes Police Files in Bridge Shootings,” the Times-Picayune reported two days later, telling its readers:



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