Word: louisiana
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...responsible for the city's sky-high murder rate. And a string of guilty pleas from corrupt city officials, including one that led to the resignation this month of popular City Council member Oliver Thomas, has elicited charges that white prosecutors are motivated by race; even the somewhat staid Louisiana Weekly, an 80-year-old newspaper targeted to African-American readers, recently ran an op-ed piece claiming the U.S. Attorney's Office was abetting a white power grab...
...Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University, an organization founded in 1993 with the mission to counter prejudice and improve race relations. Hill, who is white, led a grass-roots campaign to defeat David Duke, the former Klansman who made it into a runoff in Louisiana's 1991 gubernatorial race; racial tensions in the aftermath of Katrina, Hill says, are even more stark than those that surfaced during that watershed event...
...before State District Judge Jerome Winsberg earlier this week, believe the Manganos are responsible for the deaths, there is a growing consensus that blame for all post-Katrina woes lies at the feet of the federal government, which built the flood-control system that was supposed to protect South Louisiana's low-lying areas in the first place. The defense maintains that the Manganos thought it better to offer shelter to residents rather than put them through the trauma of evacuation, and that they were so confident that the nursing home was safe that they extended the offer to staffers...
...Manganos could also benefit from growing public antipathy to Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti, whose office is prosecuting the case. Foti's public approval rating has plummeted since the arrest one year ago of two Memorial Medical Center nurses and surgeon Anna Pou, whom Foti accused of murdering patients in the days following Katrina. The public rallied around the health care workers, and New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan dropped the second-degree murder and murder conspiracy charges last month after a grand jury decided not to indict...
...Prosecutors will argue that, even if the Manganos never expected or intended anyone to die, they are still responsible for not heeding mandatory evacuation orders. The defense will counter that the state should have had procedures in place to evacuate those most in need, and have issued subpoenas for Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco's and former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, whose agency was responsible for the levee system. "The whole theme here is that this is the government's fault, including the Corps and the governor," Ciolino says...