I doubt very much this is a hoax. It sure doesn't sound like one to me. If so, I have been fooled, but I've been listening to it for a couple of hours. Seems VERY genuine.
In the interest of full disclosure (AGAIN), yes I DID find this link while lurking over at DU. The DUmmies were commenting on it (of course, their ghoulish, mindless comments were along the lines of: "It's chaos! It's a cluster**** down there! It's Bush's fault!") and I followed it, found it compelling, and posted it here for the same reason.
AGAIN: If someone can find a DIFFERENT police scanner link for New Orleans, PLEASE post it here. It should be pretty easy to verify that this is real.
If ONE news source was reporting this shooting, I'd agree... I believed it too, but the link is owned by kids
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if it was a hoax than so be it. if i was the hoaxter, i would have had the city on fire, multiple shoot outs at the dome and blah blah blah.