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CHICAGO – Two New Orleans police officers convicted of shooting and burning a man in the 2005 post-Hurricane Katrina chaos were sentenced to 25 and 17 years in jail for their crimes, officials said Thursday.
They were two of three police officers convicted in December in the September 2, 2005 slaying which was not investigated until early 2009 -- shortly after a high-profile media report.
Former NOPD Officer Warren was sentenced to 25 years for shooting a fleeing Henry Glover, 31, from the balcony of a police station.
Glover's brother and a friend flagged down a passing motorist, who put the mortally wounded man in his car to try to get medical attention for him.
When the men drove up to a makeshift police station seeing help, the police officers surrounded them at gunpoint, handcuffed them and let Glover die in the back seat of the car.
Greg McRae, who maintains his position with the department, was sentenced to 17 years in jail for driving off with the car, with Glover's body inside, and burning both the body and the car with a traffic flare...[Full Article]