Frontline S28E21 Law & Disorder

Title: Law & Disorder
Episode #: 28x21
Original Airdate: Wednesday August 25th, 2010

Frontline (US) :: Law & Disorder (28x21)

FRONTLINE investigates several questionable shootings by police in the days following Hurricane Katrina, raising new questions about the actions of some officers -- and their command structure -- during the aftermath of the storm.

After Katrina, New Orleans Cops Were Told They Could Shoot Looters In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, an order circulated among New Orleans police authorizing officers to shoot looters, according to present and former members of the New Orleans Police Department.

It's not clear how broadly the order was communicated. Some officers who heard it say they refused to carry it out. Others say they understood it as a fundamental change in the standards on deadly force, which allow police to fire only to protect themselves or others from what appears to be an imminent physical threat.

Format : AVI
Length : 465 MiB for 56mn 39s 899ms

Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 995 Kbps
Aspect : 608 x 336 (1.810) at 29.970 fps

Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 138 Kbps
Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz

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Ekolb