Death of Henry Glover

Death of Henry Glover
Death of Henry Glover
Location New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Date September 2, 2005 (CDT)
Attack type Murder, police brutality
Weapon(s) Assault rifle
Death(s) 1
Injured 3
Perpetrator New Orleans Police Department

The death of Henry Glover refers to the ongoing controversy over an African American resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, Henry Glover, whose charred body was found in a destroyed Chevrolet Malibu on September 2, 2005, parked on a Mississippi River levee. Five current and former officers of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) have been charged with Glover's death. First to be charged was former NOPD police officer David Warren, a rookie at the time, who was convicted and sentenced to 25 years and 9 months in prison for shooting and killing Glover. Former NOPD police officer Greg McRae was convicted of obstructing justice and other charges in the burning of Glover's body and was sentenced to 17 years and 3 months in prison. NOPD Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann is charged with assaulting civilians who came to Glover's aid, as well as obstructing a federal investigation through the burning of Glover's body in a 2000 Chevy Malibu. He faces a maximum of 60 years in prison. Former NOPD Lt. Robert Italiano and NOPD Lt. Travis McCabe are charged with obstructing justice and lying to the FBI. McCabe is also charged with lying to a federal grand jury. Italiano faces up to 25 years in prison, while McCabe faces up to 30 years in prison. The 11-count indictment accused officers of shooting Glover as well as physically attacking his brother and one of his neighbors. The indictment also accused officers of attempting to conceal their actions, through actions such as torching Glover's corpse. Glover's controversial death has been described as an example of frequent police misconduct in the direct aftermath of Hurricane Katrina by the news agencies ProPublica and PBS Frontline.[1][2][3]

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Henry Glover

Henry Glover was a 31-year-old African-American resident of the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans, located on the western bank of the Mississippi. He weathered Katrina in New Orleans along with his mother, brother, and sister. Henry was last seen uninjured on September 2, four days after the storm, by his sister.[3]

Chain of events

The prosecutors have alleged:[2][3]

  • NOPD officer David Warren shot Glover in the chest with a .223 rifle near an Algiers strip mall.
  • Glover's brother, Edward King, and sister, Patrice Glover, came to Glover's aid.
  • A neighbor of Glover named William Tanner drove Glover and his brother to seek medical attention at a nearby school, Habans Elementary School, which had been commandeered by a SWAT team of officers. Several SWAT officers testified in trial that Tanner actually fled from a marked police car near the school. It was only after several other police cars joined in the chase that he stopped on the Mercedes Street side of the school. Neither of the two men knew how Glover had been injured.
  • SWAT officers at the school immediately placed Tanner and King into handcuffs, and then allegedly beat them. The jury acquitted the officers on this charge. Testimony in trial also alleged that an African American officer also struck one of the detained men, but little effort was put into finding that officer. While it was alleged by William Tanner in numerous media interviews that the SWAT officers let Henry Glover bleed to death in the car, the trial testimony of Lt. Scheuermann proved that in fact he had checked Glover's body for any signs of life and in fact he was already deceased. This proof was in the form of photographs provided to the defense in discovery.
  • Glover died from his wounds. NOPD officer Greg McRae set fire to Glover’s body as it sat inside Tanner’s 2001 Chevrolet Malibu. The car was left parked on a Mississippi River levee down the street from a NOPD office.
  • Istvan Balogh, a former law enforcement officer who had come in from out of state, discovered Glover's corpse on September 9. He admitted in trial that he video taped the burned car with Glover's remains and has since sold copies of the video tape.

Aftermath

On March 31, 2011, Judge Lance M. Africk sentenced David Warren to 25 years and 9 months in federal prison on a federal civil rights violation of committing manslaughter with a firearm. Judge Africk sentenced Greg MacRae to 17 years and 3 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release on obstruction of justice and another civil rights charge.[4][5] "Henry Glover was not at the strip mall to commit suicide. He was there to retrieve some baby clothing. You killed a man. Despite your tendentious arguments to the contrary, it was no mistake," Africk told Warren.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Post-Katrina police killing goes to trial". UPI.com. November 8, 2010. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/11/08/Post-Katrina-police-killing-goes-to-trial/UPI-32951289234279/. Retrieved November 8, 2010. 
  2. ^ a b Thompson, A.C. (April 11, 2010). "The Killing of Henry Glover: Who Else Knew?". ProPublica. http://www.propublica.org/nola/story/the-killing-of-henry-glover-who-else-knew. Retrieved November 8, 2010. 
  3. ^ a b c "Law & Disorder - Transcript". PBS Frontline. August 25, 2010. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/law-disorder/etc/script.html. Retrieved November 8, 2010. 
  4. ^ Robertson, Campbell (March 31, 2011). "2 Former Officers Sentenced in Post-Katrina Killing". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/01/us/01police.html. 
  5. ^ a b Kunzelman, Michael (March 31, 2011). "Ex-cops go to prison in post-Katrina killing". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Associated Press. Archived from the original on March 31, 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5xbRk7nni. 

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