New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, surrounded by Sherrell Johnson, left, whose 17-year-old son James Brissette was killed by New Orleans Police after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and city attorney Rebecca H. Dietz, center left back, and NOPD Superintendent Michael Harrison, right, speaks during a press conference to announce settlements in the civil rights cases, in New Orleans, La. Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. Landrieu announced the city has reached settlements totaling $13.3 million in lawsuits over the deadly police shootings after Hurricane Katrina and a fatal beating just before the hurricane, and he apologized to the victims' families on behalf of the city. (Matthew Hinton/The Advocate via AP)
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