NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal prosecutor pleaded for leniency Wednesday for two former police officers who pleaded guilty to helping cover up deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina, but a pair of judges rejected those requests.
U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman sentenced Ignatius Hills to 6 1/2 years in prison for his role in the cover-up of the Danziger Bridge shootings, in which police shot and killed two people and wounded four others less than a week after the 2005 storm.
 
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