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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.
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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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Comment #21 Removed by Moderator
To: Chucky is a girlie man
I take it their guns were hostered, which then makes me ask "Didn't the cops tell them to freeze or did they just shoot?".
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posted on
09/04/2005 3:18:14 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
"Lucy! You got some 'splanin' t'do!"
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
09/04/2005 3:18:15 PM PDT
by
mhking
(The world needs a wake up call gentlemen...we're gonna phone it in.)
To: Chucky is a girlie man
Hmmmm. Wonder if any of the police ever got close enough to ask these people what they were doing on the bridge?
24
posted on
09/04/2005 3:18:18 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: hole_n_one
Me too
what the heck is going on down there?
25
posted on
09/04/2005 3:18:18 PM PDT
by
Mo1
To: Chucky is a girlie man
I'm not sure how they'll do it, but by tomorrow this will be Bush's fault.
26
posted on
09/04/2005 3:18:20 PM PDT
by
Maigret
To: Chucky is a girlie man
New Orleans goes from bad to worse...
Didn't think that was possible. Get the incompetent New Orleans police out of there. They cannot work under pressure apparently.
To: Chucky is a girlie man
God, I hope this is wrong.
I think we finally found something about this disaster that the NYT can't blame on Bush.
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posted on
09/04/2005 3:18:24 PM PDT
by
Starve The Beast
(I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused)
To: Chucky is a girlie man
How can Bush avoid blame for this?
To: Chucky is a girlie man
Just when you think NO officials cannot do anything more stupid, they up an exceed your expectations.
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posted on
09/04/2005 3:18:26 PM PDT
by
twntaipan
(Leadership: Rudy has it! W has it! Ray Nagin (mayor of New Orleans) can't spell it!)
To: Chucky is a girlie man
Just damn. I guess the police fired without being threatened. This is crazy.
31
posted on
09/04/2005 3:18:30 PM PDT
by
zoso82t
To: hole_n_one
They can't shoot the thugs.....but now this????? God Help Us.
To: Chucky is a girlie man
How are they going to spin this so that it is Bush's fault?
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posted on
09/04/2005 3:18:30 PM PDT
by
msnimje
(CNN - Constant Negative Nonsense)
To: Chucky is a girlie man
Fox ia apparently trying to downplay the shootings by stating it is like the "Wild West"
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posted on
09/04/2005 3:18:37 PM PDT
by
NY Attitude
(You are responsible for your safety until the arrival of Law Enforcement Officers!)
To: Rokke
A little louder:
Now maybe Blanco will let the Federal Government take over.
35
posted on
09/04/2005 3:18:38 PM PDT
by
nicmarlo
To: Chucky is a girlie man
The New Orleans Police defies description.
Is incompetarded a word?
36
posted on
09/04/2005 3:18:39 PM PDT
by
Wormwood
(Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
To: Chucky is a girlie man
Good Lord, what next?!
The crap pile the LA government made just keeps get bigger and bigger.
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posted on
09/04/2005 3:18:43 PM PDT
by
conservativebabe
(God Bless Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida)
To: Chucky is a girlie man
but they don't shoot looters? Ugh.
To: WhiteGuy; Admin Moderator
Plz pull as this is already handled on the side bar, at least that is what you told me when I first posted story.
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posted on
09/04/2005 3:18:47 PM PDT
by
dts32041
(Shinkichi: Massuer, did you see that? Zatôichi: I don't see much)
To: JellyJam
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