Family and friends of Mr Glover embraced following the jury’s decision A US federal jury has convicted three police officers and cleared two over the killing of a man after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans in 2005.
The jury convicted former officer David Warren of manslaughter in the shooting of 31-year-old Henry Glover.
Officer Gregory McRae was convicted of burning Mr Glover’s body, while Lt Travis McCabe was convicted of writing a false report on the shooting.
Lt Dwayne Scheuermann and ex-Lt Robert Italiano were acquitted in the trial.
The trial was the first in a series of cases against New Orleans police officers for alleged abuses committed in the aftermath of the hurricane, when thousands of desperate people were trapped in the flooded city.
The five officers described the frantic conditions in New Orleans after the storm struck the city on 29 August 2005.
They told the jury that amid the chaos and with lives at stake, they only had time to investigate the most serious of crimes.
Prosecutors said the storm did not justify the officers’ action but may explain them.
Hurricane Katrina made the officers believe “no one was watching and no one would care about Henry Glover”, said prosecuting lawyer Tracey Knight.
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