A jury on Thursday convicted a man of two counts of attempted manslaughter, finding that Michael Clark used a semi-automatic rifle to open fire on New Orleans police during a nearly seven-hour standoff in the Lower 9th Ward.
No officers were injured in the Feb. 5, 2021, shooting, but prosecutors argued this week in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court that Clark, 29, intended to kill when he fired his gun.
The standoff started after Clark punched a neighbor in the face, then walked into his house to retrieve an AR-15, yelling, “You a b****. I’ll get you killed,” police reported…