Jazz Funeral for Democracy

Mr Fontana's attorney representation of New Orleans police brutality cases against Afro Americans. More specifically the case centering around the Charles Cheatham police killing on Bourbon Street in April of 1975 by New Orleans police officer Stephen Reboul. The jury in Louisiana Civil District Court in New Orleans, Judge Tom Early presiding, granted Sheryl Cheatham, widow of Charles Cheatham, and her young son, an award of $619,000 the first to receive a payout from the city for brutalities caused my the New Orleans police Department.