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Police Chief Says Thousands Trapped in New Orleans Convention Center
AP ^ | 1-Sept-2005 | AP

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: katrina; neworleans
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To: livius
It would be a violation of the Posse Commitatus Act. I HOPE ANG troops get shipped in there by the droves to perform law enforcement. But NOT Active Duty U.S. Military.
401 posted on 09/01/2005 4:02:20 PM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: faithincowboys

So far... but they've been days with no aid at all. You do know we are not talking about the superdome right? This thread, and this group, is at the convention center and have not had water or food since the storm.


402 posted on 09/01/2005 4:03:03 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
In August 1992 my future wife and I were having a vacation in NO when we watched the debacle of Andrew going through South Florida. We had a couple of more days of vacation and a nice room at the Weston but I told her I had been through Gloria and several typhoons and had no wish to go through another. We left that day. These tourists that are now trapped in NO would have done well to have done a little research and had a bit of common sense.
403 posted on 09/01/2005 4:03:49 PM PDT by vetvetdoug (Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka, Brices Crossroads, Harrisburg, Britton Lane, Holly Springs, Hatchie Bridge,)
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To: Enterprise
Who's doing the looting? Crooks or New Orleans police officers?

You mean there's a difference between the two?! :-)
404 posted on 09/01/2005 4:04:00 PM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: Blessed

That's the point, blessed....saying this slowly....IF there had been a plan in place....food and water would have been planned to be brought in...days ago.

N.O. is not an island.

Airplanes from other areas can bring in water....other methods of transportation from where the planes are able to land can disseminate water.

Repeating:

Helicopters can drop water and food...they do this in other disasters. Someone can live for a period of time on just water....without it, they die. Very simple.


405 posted on 09/01/2005 4:04:27 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: All

What a disgrace this is for our country . What a statement this makes on our society and what greedy , low life animals some(many ) have become. This is sad , real sad.
Pop a few shots at those commiting rape and violence , thats what is long overdue. I'm sure the same thing would happen in any of our other hip hop gansta cultured urban centers. The day of helping your neighbor , having respect for eachother ,having dignity and being a gentleman is all but over .


406 posted on 09/01/2005 4:04:54 PM PDT by hoboken109
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To: HairOfTheDog

So when cannibalism commences lose your cr*p, but not a moment sooner.


407 posted on 09/01/2005 4:04:57 PM PDT by faithincowboys
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To: elli1
I guess it's down to airdropping booze & drugs to the animals or taking Putin up on his offer.

Poison some crack and heroin and drop it in there. Problem solved.

408 posted on 09/01/2005 4:05:23 PM PDT by JTHomes
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To: roses of sharon
My god, now FEMA WANTS people to die, along with the President, and they are all lying??

Nobody's in charge in NO. Ray Hagin, the mayor, is sitting up in Baton Rouge, sipping iced tea in an air-conditioned command center while his cops try to hold off armed thugs.

And armed-chair quarterbacks on FR, getting their information from Anderson Cooper, railing at FEMA for not air-dropping water and food.

Now we've got Steve Harrigan on FOXNEWS bellyaching about people "out in the open no food, no water, angry, not getting what they expected."

It's a damned disaster, people!!

I've about had it with the MSM looking over the shoulders of people who are getting shot at and second-guessing every damned thing they do!!

409 posted on 09/01/2005 4:06:08 PM PDT by sinkspur (We who have been given much must help those who now have nothing.)
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To: nmh
Didn't the mayor or was it the governor LET OUT THE PRISONS? I thought I heard this. Anyone hear that too?

I thought I heard that on CNN and figured I must have heard wrong!?

If this is true, talk about going from the frying pan into the fryer...

410 posted on 09/01/2005 4:06:22 PM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: JTHomes

Just heard on CNN - Israel new about the hurricane before-hand and no Jews have been found stranded in NOLA. Hmmmm....


411 posted on 09/01/2005 4:07:55 PM PDT by keat (Posting code without previewing since 2004)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Send 11 Texas Rangers in there. They'll take care of things.


412 posted on 09/01/2005 4:08:06 PM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: hoboken109

It's a disgrace because it proves to the world that our government is inept when it comes to handling disasters, be they natural or from terrorists. This is Day Four. People have had little to eat or drink since Sunday night. They are dying.


413 posted on 09/01/2005 4:08:12 PM PDT by StarSpangled
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To: HairOfTheDog

Remember, those live cameras belong to the MSM and a reporter on Fox just said that they have tunnel vision. They really do not know what is happening except in the few spots where they are stationed.

I would hardly call the FEMA director a liar based upon the words of the reporters.


414 posted on 09/01/2005 4:08:31 PM PDT by arjay (Grow bold, not old.)
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To: Rosenkreutz
"This is amazing... what kind of people have taken over down there?"
The ones that vote a democratic mayor and governor in office. These are your typical democratic thugs!
415 posted on 09/01/2005 4:08:35 PM PDT by martinidon (Bush won sKerry lost and Soro's is out millions for nothing!)
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To: keat
new - knew
416 posted on 09/01/2005 4:08:51 PM PDT by keat (Posting code without previewing since 2004)
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To: Blessed
2 weeks after disaster.

Exactly we can do better.

417 posted on 09/01/2005 4:08:55 PM PDT by Major_Risktaker
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To: sinkspur

Populism at its worst, which is EXACTLY why the citizens of NO have civil authorities that they do.

Liberal populism wins elections.


418 posted on 09/01/2005 4:09:11 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: faithincowboys
Your comment to me is a total non sequitur.

I said nothing to suggest the worst of this isn't man made.

My point is that generally, such as in the Tsunami recovery, most aid is accepted graciously and people help each other. Some aid is rejected for political reasons but not violently.

In the recent Angola outbreak of Marburg Fever, there was some resistance to the outsiders, but this is because they were afraid the WHO people were spreading the disease.

Only two weeks ago my inlaws were involved in a natural disaster in a third world country, with 900 dead, and there was no violence whatsoever.

419 posted on 09/01/2005 4:09:36 PM PDT by steve86 (@)
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To: hiredhand
"You mean there's a difference between the two?!"

(Hee hee hee)

420 posted on 09/01/2005 4:10:36 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Islam is not a religion, but rather a means of world conquest" - ALAN BURKHART.COM)
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