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Police Kill Five on La. Bridge(UPDATE CONTRACTORS WERE SHOT AT: THE NOPD shot BAD GUYS)
CNN, AP BREAKING ^

Posted on 09/04/2005 3:16:13 PM PDT by Chucky is a girlie man

Edited on 09/04/2005 4:02:41 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

New Orleans PD shot contractors - not thugs - on bridge

Mod point of clarification: The first 100 or so replies below were posted in reaction to reports that the contractors had been fatally shot.


Mod Update
The Associated Press
Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said.

Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six.

Fourteen contractors were traveling across the Danziger Bridge under police escort when they came under fire, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers.

They were on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to help plug the breech in the 17th Street Canal, Hall said.

None of the contractors was killed, Hall said.

The bridge spans a canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River.

No other details were immediately available.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: abridgetoofar; ap; assininepress; banglist; battleofneworleans; civiliancontractors; corpsofengineers; danzigerbridge; deadthugs; domesticunrest; fakebutaccurate; katrina; muslimextremist; nolaaftermath; nopd; thugs
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

Hell, they join the looters but shoot people trying to help. UNBELIEVABLE!


101 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:26 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Saddam's family were WMD's - He's behind bars & his sons are DEAD!)
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To: WhiteGuy

Good Lord! WHat the hell is going on down there?? get those cops off the street--they are in over their heads.


102 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:26 PM PDT by ktvaughn
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To: All

Contractors not killed!!!


103 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:26 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Anyone who votes for Democrats after Aug. 28, 2005 are just plain ignorant.)
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To: WhiteGuy
Clarification, contractors shot at by bad guys, Police took out the bad guys.
104 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:36 PM PDT by dts32041 (Shinkichi: Massuer, did you see that? Zatôichi: I don't see much)
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To: angkor
Clarification - FoxNews reporting contractors NOT KILLED after all. Instead, the guys who were shooting at the contractors were shot by NO police.

Boy, what a turnaround in events. Let's all calm down until all the facts are in.

105 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:37 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Mid-life crisis in progress...)
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To: Howlin

Spinning...out of control.

AP CORRECTION:

CONTRACTORS WERE SHOT AT- THE NOLA shot at the BAD GUYS and killed them...

...still checking on what is real and what isn't...


106 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:37 PM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Fox is saying that the police shot the guys who were shooting at the contractors.

No contractors were killed.


107 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:37 PM PDT by najida (I run with scissors and I don't play well with others.)
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To: dawn53

ROTFLMAO!!!! The police shot AT people who shot AT THE CONTRACTORS. Cue the duck.


108 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:42 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
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To: Bahbah

Just heard that the contractors were NOT killed. They were shot at, and police shot the bad guys, per FOX


110 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:42 PM PDT by pollywog (Psalm 121;1 I Lift my eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help.)
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To: Birdsbane
The other thread was Super Zotted...

It's gonna leave a mark for a very long time.

111 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:44 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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Fox saying Contractors were shot AT by a thug and the police shot the THUGS


112 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:44 PM PDT by msnimje (CNN - Constant Negative Nonsense)
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To: swheats

Cops shot contractors because they were NONUNION!!


113 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:47 PM PDT by tpmintx
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To: Clara Lou

Good ol' AP getting it WRONG again!!!


114 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:52 PM PDT by frogjerk (LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Get everybody out and blow the river levees. It's the only way to be sure.

That city has some real bad ju ju. There's some kind of voodoo whammy hovering over the place and it should definably not be rebuilt. Only the port should.

115 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:52 PM PDT by dennisw (***)
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To: Youngblood

this story is wrong! The contractors were NOT killed! They were shot at, NOT KILLED


116 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:52 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: Chucky is a girlie man
Latest info on Fox says contractors shot at, nobody killed
117 posted on 09/04/2005 3:21:59 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

FOX now reporting the contractor were NOT killed. The cops got the BAD guys!


118 posted on 09/04/2005 3:22:01 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
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To: Indy Pendance

FOX news saying, contractors shot at but NOT killed..

I'm not sure they know whats happened yet


119 posted on 09/04/2005 3:22:03 PM PDT by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
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To: Dog

Time for a new thread. hehe


120 posted on 09/04/2005 3:22:05 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters
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