Posted on 08/30/2005 6:11:52 PM PDT by Rebelbase
The New Orleans police officer shot in the head by a looter Tuesday was expected to survive, officials said.
The officer, who has not been identified, was in surgery at West Jefferson Medical Center after being shot in the forehead, police said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Time to stop this now.
The governor has to step up and put out a shoot to kill order or this will become Beruit by morning.
When was the last time looters were shot on sight in the US?
Just an observation... 100% of the looters being shown on Fox news right now are black.
That is sad for them. Why they feel it is OK to loot is beyond me.
1965, Los Angeles, California. Some were shot on sight. The biggie was in the aftermath of the Great San Francisco Earthquake in 1906. Some were shot on sight there, too. Soon, very soon thereafter, LOOTING came to a conclusion.
My prayers are with the small businessmen in New Orleans. Time to lock & load, people!
About the same time law and order ceased to exist in the United States.
Considering some of the recent video i've seen of the looters, none of them are afraid.
Take a couple of them out, and you'd see it cease quickly.
You pulled the first one because of no associated link - "no link, no dice" was the justification.
A second post was made for the same article, with nola.com as the source, gone very quickly.
The story is there.
What's the deal?
LVM
'After Katrina, Looters Ravage New Orleans
From Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS -- With much of the city flooded by Hurricane Katrina, looters floated garbage cans filled with clothing and jewelry down the street in a dash to grab what they could.
In some cases, looting today took place in full view of police and National Guard troops.
At a Walgreen's drug store in the French Quarter, people were running out with grocery baskets and coolers full of soft drinks, chips and diapers.
When police finally showed up, a young boy stood in the door screaming, "86! 86!" -- the radio code for police -- and the crowd scattered.
Denise Bollinger, a tourist from Philadelphia, stood outside and snapped pictures in amazement.
"It's downtown Baghdad," the housewife said. "It's insane. I've wanted to come here for 10 years. I thought this was a sophisticated city. I guess not."
Around the corner on Canal Street, the main thoroughfare in the central business district, people sloshed headlong through hip-deep water as looters ripped open the steel gates on the front of several clothing and jewelry stores.
One man, who had about 10 pairs of jeans draped over his left arm, was asked if he was salvaging things from his store.
"No," the man shouted, "that's EVERYBODY'S store."
Looters filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on bits of plywood and insulation as National Guard lumbered by.
Mike Franklin stood on the trolley tracks and watched the spectacle unfold.
"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.
A man walked down Canal Street with a pallet of food on his head. His wife, who refused to give her name, insisted they weren't stealing from the nearby Winn-Dixie supermarket. "It's about survival right now," she said as she held a plastic bag full of purloined items. "We got to feed our children. I've got eight grandchildren to feed."
At a drug store on Canal Street just outside the French Quarter, two police officers with pump shotguns stood guard as workers from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel across the street loaded large laundry bins full of medications, snack foods and bottled water.
"This is for the sick," Officer Jeff Jacob said. "We can commandeer whatever we see fit, whatever is necessary to maintain law."
Another office, D.J. Butler, told the crowd standing around that they would be out of the way as soon as they got the necessities.
"I'm not saying you're welcome to it," the officer said. "This is the situation we're in. We have to make the best of it."
The looting was taking place in full view of passing National Guard trucks and police cruisers.
One man with an armload of clothes even asked a policeman, "can I borrow your car?"
Some in the crowd splashed into the waist-deep water like giddy children at the beach.'
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The Democrat Govenor?
I don't think the governor has the first clue about what to do. Her goal was always to be elected, not to govern. Well, honey, you're in the big leagues now!
Sadly, there are a number of people on FR who think looting should be permitted. I hope they see this--these are the kind of people who loot. There is no nobility here, just pure avarice and greed. Prayers for this officer!
It is times like this that you see what people are really made of. Makes me sick. ?
We have our own animals. This makes Iraq look peaceful.
Hannity was just interviewing the AG of Lousisana and he practically justified the looting under the guise that the food is going to go bad, anyway. I guess he missed the TVs and DVD players going out the door.
This is so embarrassing. These looting pictures are being beamed around the world. I was so proud of New York during 9/11; I'm so embarrassed for New Orleans right now.
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