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

CNN, AP BREAKING ^

[Chucky is a girlie man]

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.

[KSCITYBOY]

Dummies want good people to die to support their hatred of Bush or anybody who doesn't share their sick and twisted views.

[Peach]

Thank goodness! What a horrible case of mis-reporting. CNN is not having a good week.

[JellyJam]

not yet.

[dfwgator]

Why is it the media gets a pass when they screw up and yet they cut President Bush absolutely none?

[Mo1]

.....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

[World'sGoneInsane]

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.

[America_Right]

LOL! Yeah, he should be down there ferrying Dr. Frist around to the sick/wounded...

[texianyankee]

DUmmies probably smelling a cover-up....cops had throwdowns.

[swheats]

Just proves they lie about the confirmations or their stories. Glad this one was proven untrue reeeeal fast.

[aculeus]

Just a thank you for keeping up with this crazily-reported story.

[Bahbah]

CNN is not having a good week.

They're having a bad decade. May it continue.

[Dog Gone]

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?

[MEG33]

Mine ,too..I think waiting til confirmed is a plan.

[Peach]

LOL.

Judging by their ratings, I think we're going to get our wish.

[buckleyfan]

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.

[Cboldt]

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.

[section9]

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

[cardinal4]

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!

[Normal4me]

You're the bestest a-hole FreeRepublic has! :-) You got it right on the pulled thread. BTW, thanks for all the screencaps.

[Salvation]

See #312