I already heard it and so don't need the link. The last thing I ever wanted to hear was the mayor of a city calling for backup. The man sounds so desperate anf frustrated! People shooting at police?!? I ignored claims of terrorists taking advantage of the NO tragedy the other night...now I'm beginning to seriously wonder. Even drug runners aren't that idiotic as to shoot at police while their city is in tatters.
On CNN a while ago their reporter was on the roof of the police station. The officers instead of protecting the public was held up in the precinct house along with their families. It was too dangerous for them to be out on the streets or in the Superdome which is pitch black and the police feel that if they went in there they'd be fired upon. The reporter didn't say it but getting into a gun battle in an enclosed space with 20,000 Innocent people would make the bridge incident in Iraq look like nothing.