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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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To: Bahbah
Dummies want good people to die to support their hatred of Bush or anybody who doesn't share their sick and twisted views.
To: prairiebreeze
Thank goodness! What a horrible case of mis-reporting. CNN is not having a good week.
322
posted on
09/04/2005 3:36:10 PM PDT
by
Peach
(South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
To: Indy Pendance
323
posted on
09/04/2005 3:36:14 PM PDT
by
JellyJam
(Headline of the year: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
To: Mo1
Why is it the media gets a pass when they screw up and yet they cut President Bush absolutely none?
To: Libertarian444
.....Anderson Cooper on CNN lobbing softballs to Blanco mouthpiece James Lee Witt blaming Bush for cutting levee funding... Yes .. but when the investigations start rolling .. Witt will be asked how much money was paid to built the Casinos and where did it come from
325
posted on
09/04/2005 3:36:25 PM PDT
by
Mo1
To: OrangeDaisy
Probably crawling under a rock right now hoping no one notices. I saw it on Yahoo, and I clicked to FR to check it out. It's off Yahoo now. I wonder if AP lurks here.
326
posted on
09/04/2005 3:36:35 PM PDT
by
World'sGoneInsane
(LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN, LET NO ONE FORGET)
To: tbagot
LOL! Yeah, he should be down there ferrying Dr. Frist around to the sick/wounded...
327
posted on
09/04/2005 3:36:46 PM PDT
by
America_Right
(I serve the cause of freedom. What do you do? -SECDEF Heller from "24")
To: Indy Pendance
DUmmies probably smelling a cover-up....cops had throwdowns.
To: angkor
Just proves they lie about the confirmations or their stories. Glad this one was proven untrue reeeeal fast.
329
posted on
09/04/2005 3:36:58 PM PDT
by
swheats
To: Admin Moderator
Just a thank you for keeping up with this crazily-reported story.
330
posted on
09/04/2005 3:37:06 PM PDT
by
aculeus
(Ceci n'est pas une tag line.)
To: Peach
CNN is not having a good week.They're having a bad decade. May it continue.
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posted on
09/04/2005 3:37:14 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Tim Russert is a poopy-head)
To: JellyJam
No other details, including whether any of the gunmen were killed, were immediately available. Well, if the contractors weren't killed, and we don't know if the gunmen were killed, who exactly is lying in pools of blood?
To: Mo1
Mine ,too..I think waiting til confirmed is a plan.
333
posted on
09/04/2005 3:37:48 PM PDT
by
MEG33
(GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
To: Bahbah
LOL.
Judging by their ratings, I think we're going to get our wish.
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posted on
09/04/2005 3:37:51 PM PDT
by
Peach
(South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
To: billnaz
Probably not a whole lot has changed - NOPD is some of the lowest-paid metropolitan cops in the country, which weeded out a lot of the good ones over time.
However, I would imagine that the ones who haven't left, the ones who are still there in this madness trying to help people, really are committed and are doing a good job. Not to mention, they are probably learning pretty quickly under fire - like troops in a war. JMHO.
335
posted on
09/04/2005 3:37:54 PM PDT
by
buckleyfan
(WFB, save us!)
To: angkor
I hope that liar at the ACOE has his/her butt kicked. Dollars to donuts, the ACOE source was accurate, and the reporter either changed it or misunderstood. The media is awful for getting simple facts correct.
336
posted on
09/04/2005 3:38:00 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: angkor
I was stupid and jumped the gun, believing the first AP reports about the contractors being killed by trigger happy NOPD'S.
Won't make that mistake again.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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posted on
09/04/2005 3:38:07 PM PDT
by
section9
(Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
To: tbagot
Again, where is Kerry and his Brand of Brothers? Their unique boating skills could sure be put to use here, right? Maybe they could cross the watery border into Mississippi. Have Christmas there.Thanks for a much needed laugh! Imagine Kerry standing at the head of the boat like George Washington!
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posted on
09/04/2005 3:38:14 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
("When the Levee breaks, Mama, you got to move....")
To: hole_n_one
You're the bestest a-hole FreeRepublic has! :-) You got it right on the pulled thread. BTW, thanks for all the screencaps.
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posted on
09/04/2005 3:38:32 PM PDT
by
Normal4me
((it's called sarcasm!))
To: nicmarlo
340
posted on
09/04/2005 3:38:46 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
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