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Danziger Bridge Incident - Cover-up and corruption in New Orleans ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- officers provided false info, failed to investigate fully, planted a weapon (CNN)  -- A former New Orleans, Louisiana, police officer who pleaded guilty to covering up police shootings of civilians on a Louisiana bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison, authorities said. Former officer Michael Hunter pleaded guilty April 7 in federal court in New Orleans to conspiracy to obstruct justice and for misprision of a felony (for concealing a known crime), in the Danziger Bridge shootings in New Orleans that left two dead and four seriously wounded, the Department of Justice said in a statement Wednesday. Hunter also was ordered to pay a $2,500 fine and serve three years' supervised release. His sentence will begin in March 2011. Judge Sarah Vance said that the kind o

Publisher's note: This is a reprint of a year long investigation conducted by the Arkansas Department of Education, regarding allegations of discrimination against ethnic Creole Indians within the Pulaski County Special School District aka PCSSD. These allegations involved discrimination by both so-called blacks and whites against Arkansas' ethnic American Creole Indians. Descendants of those that pre-date USA acquisition of 1803 Louisiana Purchase Treaty territories & hold the federal government to their 1803 Treaty commitments, especially after cutting up Creole Land to satisfy the embarrassing end of The War of 1812 The documented allegations include heinous acts committed against American Creole Indian Children encompassing their fellow classmates, Fuller Middle School Academics, school district members like the bigot Mildred Tatum & the Jim Crow controlled Pulaski County Sheriff's Office (proof available upon request). Why are we bri

Wednesday, Dec 1, 2010 THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT AND PUBLIC MEETINGS LITTLE ROCK - Act 93 of 1967, commonly known as the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act, maintains that it is "vital in a democratic society" for the public's business to be conducted in public, so that Arkansans can be aware of public-policy decisions and the performance of their government. The Arkansas Freedom of Information law, one of the strongest in the nation, allows consumers to review state and municipal government records or observe the actions of governing bodies. Today, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel released this consumer alert to remind Arkansans about the FOIA and how it works for them. "Arkansas is known nationally for its strong open records and open meetings law, and we should all be glad for that," McDaniel said. "A robust FOI law allows for all Arkansans to be active and informed citizens." In previous consumer alerts, McDaniel discussed genera