Michael Lohman

Ex-New Orleans Cop Pleads Guilty To Massive Cover Up In Post-Katrina Shootings

Justin Elliott | February 25, 2010, 1:07PM

The Danziger Bridge (Fmr. New Orleans Police Lt. Michael Lohman inset)

A veteran New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty yesterday to orchestrating an elaborate cover-up of a shooting in the days after Katrina in which police gunned down six unarmed city residents, killing two and seriously wounding four.

The development -- which the Times-Picayune calls a "potentially devastating blow" to other officers linked to the case -- is the first plea in a wide-ranging federal probe of several post-Katrina police shootings. The Feds are reportedly looking at possible crimes in both the shootings themselves as well as the subsequent investigations.

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