Oris Buckner dead @ 70...only Black man on New Orleans homicide squad, he provided key testimony in 1 of the city’s most notorious civil rights cases

[basquebromance]

The retired New Orleans police officer who broke ranks to help convict NOPD detectives in the 1980s died

Oris Buckner III, New Orleans officer who revealed police abuses in 'Algiers 7' case, dies

Oris Buckner III, a former New Orleans Police Department officer who broke ranks in the early 1980's to help convict three other detectives for brutalizing residents in the notorious “Algiers

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[Sunsettommy]

What a courageous man!