Witness: Officer Laughed After Burning Man's Body

A witness has testified that a New Orleans police officer was laughing after burning the body of a man who had been gunned down by police in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, according to FoxNews.com.

First off, this startles me, and it raises some serious questions as to what kind of situation is happening.

A man who had been gunned down by the police after Hurrican Katrina makes me wonder what kind of situation had occured due to this. What caused the police to kill this man? Who was this man? According to Fox News, this man was killed by a seperate police officer, and officer Greg McRae and Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann are charged with the burning of the deceased, 31-year-old Henry Glover.

The witness, Lt. Joseph Meisch, testified in court during the trail that he was outside a police station after witnessing the car with Glover's body inside drive over a levee and was set on fire. He also claimed that he saw McRae laughing as he and Scheuermann approached Meisch, and when asked about the event, McRae had informed him not to worry about it.

This causes me to worry about the mentallity of these officers, who were assigned to protect and enforce the law. Another question that comes to my mind is why would they do something like this? My first instinct is telling me that they're trying to cover something up. Corruption, possibly? Or they knew the officer who had shot the man, and perhaps there was foul-play involved? Something just doesn't sit right to me, and add to it to be laughing about it? As if this was some kind of joke?

I don't understand why these men would find it so amusing to burn the body of a deceased in a car. I can't even fathom what might be going through the mind's of the family members, who never had the chance to truly say goodbye.

To me, there's something going on beneath the surface with these officers, specifically these two. If I was a part of the investigation, I would figure out who the other officer was that shot this man, and what the story was behind that. If it was a cover-up or corruption, then there's a deeper investigation that has to take place. If these two officers just simply took amusement out of doing it, then I feel they should be locked up for life, as there is something mentally wrong with them.