In the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans, a 17-year-old African-American young man named James B. Brissette Jr. was killed in a hail of police gunfire on the Danziger Bridge. On the morning of September 4, 2005, Brissette, along with his friend Jose Holmes Jr. and the Bartholomew family, was walking across the bridge, seeking safety and supplies in the ravaged city. Without warning, a rental truck carrying several New Orleans Police Department officers screech
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