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(CNN) — Federal officials announced indictments Tuesday against four police officers and two supervisors in the investigation surrounding the post-Katrina deaths of civilians on New Orleans' Danziger Bridge. At least three New Orleans police officers were in FBI custody Tuesday afternoon, an attorney for one of them confirmed. Kenneth Bowen, Anthony Villavaso and Robert Gisevius surrendered to authorities. Announcement of the charges stemming from a federal civil rights investigation was made by Attorney General Eric Holder in New Orleans. “Put simply, we will not tolerate wrongdoing by those who have sworn to protect the public,” Holder told reporters. Holder promised the Justice Department will help restore the troubled New Orleans police department. “Today marks an important step forward in administering justice, in healing community wounds, in improving public safety and in restoring public trust in this city's police department,” Holder said. He was joined by the Justice Department's civil rights chief, Thomas E. Perez, and U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, the top federal prosecutor in New Orleans. The shootings occurred at the bridge on September 4, 2005, six days after Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast. added by: TimALoftis