Posted on 09/01/2005 2:49:12 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
The New Orleans police chief says 15-thousand people are trapped in the city's convention center. And he says some are being raped and beaten.
Chief Eddie Compass says displaced tourists are "walking in that direction and they are getting preyed upon."
Compass said he sent eight eleven-man teams into the convention center. But as soon as the first team arrived, he said, "they were beaten back within 30 feet of the entrance."
Earlier, the city's mayor issued a "desperate SOS" on behalf of the thousands who are stranded at the convention center.
He also gave the go-ahead for them to march across a bridge to a dry area of the city and look for whatever relief they could find.
I know. I am heartsick over this whole situation.
Who is this Marshall Law guy?
If he shows up, I hope he enforces Martial Law.
And nobody can blame this on illegal aliens either.
Well, I heard that they were having difficulty relocating prisoners, but I didn't hear that they'd let them all loose...
bout normal
"nawlins" is a toliette bowl and GOD should just go ahead and flush it...
The only people that love "nawlins" are freaks and freaks that have never been there!!! (but that is just my opinion)
Bush could have been sending in helicopters from a very early stage repairing the levees. The is a bi-partisan screw-up of the first order. No politician can be left off the hook, nobody.
I havebeen struck by the number of people who have small cildren who chose to ride out the storm. What were they thinking?
And this storm mostly passed them by. If it ad hit NO dead on, No would be flattened.
I repeat. What were they thinking?
Marshall Law?
Isn't he related to Doc & Kitty and Festus???
Jest kiddin'.
My wife's been on my ass for years to visit New Orleans and I've continually said "No." Always had a bad feeling about the place. Think I'm more right now than ever before.
Katrina wasn't born in the USA. She snuck over the border.
You're insane.
What part of "MANDATORY EVACUATION" don't you comprehend?
Sorry you got flamed Cobra64.I believe that some just expected that everyone knew that people some were truly stranded. There just was no way to leave.
Yeah... what part of MANDATORY EVACUATION didn't they understand?
It's one thing to make it mandatory but if there's just no way to leave, what were they to do?
I read a thread last night where some Freepers had said they saw video or pics of brand new school buses. Underwater. Why didn't officials put people on those buses and get them out? They'd have saved their buses and people.
Kill, main, terrorize usa citizens with a good chance to live to do it angain another day.
Yeah, pretty much a regular day in NO.
I've walked around every major US city and there are only 2.5 that I felt kind of afraid in; NO, Detroit and Atlanta (the half as I was only afraid half the time). NO has always gotten top honors.
BWAHAA. Thanks for injecting some humor.
human nature at its worst....you got that right.
If the 'cops' he sent were anything like the ones we saw filling their shopping carts at Long's and K-Mart, I can see why!
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