Former officers plead guilty in Danziger Bridge shootings (Katrina, NOLA)

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Talk about justice long delayed!

(CNN)Five former New Orleans police officers pleaded guilty Wednesday and were sentenced in connection with the deadly shootings of six unarmed people on the Danziger Bridge days after Hurricane Katrina.

The defendants also pleaded guilty for their roles in an extensive cover-up of the shooting, a scarring episode in New Orleans that compounded the devastation of the flooding.

For many, the long road to justice has been equally painful, culminating in sentences ranging from three to 12 years in prison. U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite called the outcome an imperfect resolution, seeing as some of the defendants were facing 65 years in prison less than five years ago.

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1. Some of us here "watched" in real time as those events unfolded and revealed on the internet...

Justice delayed and quite nearly denied. The sentences are almsot incomprehensibly light, but I suppose it is something.

The ugly ugly racist propaganda that permeated from RW factions during and after Katrina--that resulted in the loss of countless lives and forever remodeled the rebuilding of NOLA in favor of wealthy factions--has yet to be addressed

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2. we wait in anticipation for a vigorous wrist slapping

I'm sure their punishment will be a righteous deterrent