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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: Dog Gone
Clearly, AP is bumbling along.
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posted on
09/04/2005 3:38:49 PM PDT
by
JellyJam
(Headline of the year: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
To: Indy Pendance
To: onyx
I recall when the internet first started really gaining its momentum in the area of getting the "other side" of the news. MSM idiots like Dan Blather didn't like it and made comments (I'm paraphrasing here) along the lines of the internet fueling rumor mills and tried to destroy the credibility of information obtained here. Now the MSM JUMPS all over any rumor and reports it as facts immediately in the race to be first.
Won't go into details, but my family experienced first hand a few years ago just how willing they are to LIE to make a story more exciting.
All members of the MSM are SCUM!
343
posted on
09/04/2005 3:39:10 PM PDT
by
Muzzle_em
(I'm an island awash in a sea of stupidity)
To: BCrago66
Interestingly, when the order is to cancel a story, the newspeople use the word KILL:An old and widely understood journo term.
Not a happy term if you're freelancing, e.g., "no money".
344
posted on
09/04/2005 3:39:21 PM PDT
by
angkor
To: JellyJam
Well, this 'version' of events makes the most sense. I thought it odd, but not out of the realm of possibility given the conditions, that Corps of Engineers contractors would be walking around armed. I also thought it unlikely, but again not completely unlikely, that even the NOPD could mistake armed Corps of Engineers contractors for a lawless gang and start firing. But contractors traveling with a police escort being fired upon and police returning fire makes more sense.
I think the story is starting to gel into a coherent set of facts.
BTW, I have to commend those of the NOPD who haven't quit. The ones who are staying must have a strong sense of duty and love for their city.
345
posted on
09/04/2005 3:39:48 PM PDT
by
wimpycat
(Hyperbole is the opiate of the activist wacko.)
To: Normal4me
You're the bestest a-hole FreeRepublic has! You sweet talker, you!
To: tbagot
347
posted on
09/04/2005 3:39:50 PM PDT
by
Cougar66
(The only liberal movement is what's in their diapers. .)
To: ScreamingFist
Knock off the cat in hat photos, some of us are dial-up and actually want to read the thread..... Get firefox and set it to only load images from originating website.
348
posted on
09/04/2005 3:39:52 PM PDT
by
pepperhead
(Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
To: section9
SeeBS Evening News just reported the first inaccurate story giving less information than we did.
349
posted on
09/04/2005 3:40:07 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
("Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan)
To: JellyJam
Okay. That makes more sense.
To: Mo1
The media sure did screw that one up.Yep, the AP's Dan Rather moment. They rushed to release because they simply wanted the original story to be true.
To: Da Mav
Are you kidding? Can you spell Global Warming? Those guns were too hot because of global warming and they went off accidently, causing innocent people who were only feeding their family to be shot by Bush's de facto police state. Is it worth all this for tax cuts for the rich? Doh! You're absolutely right. What was I thinking?
To: Tejas Punto
I hope Sean Penn doesn't meet with an accident
Oh no, we can't lose him
To: angkor
I like verbal economy, so "kill" works for me. Also used in the brokerage business, e.g., "Fill or Kill."
To: hole_n_one
Well, I am glad they killed the thugs! That's all I have to say. Maybe the rest of the "thugs" will hear about this.
355
posted on
09/04/2005 3:40:59 PM PDT
by
World'sGoneInsane
(LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN, LET NO ONE FORGET)
To: wimpycat
BTW, I have to commend those of the NOPD who haven't quit. The ones who are staying must have a strong sense of duty and love for their city. Amen. And when it's all said and done, Bush should invite them to the White House to honor them.
356
posted on
09/04/2005 3:41:11 PM PDT
by
JellyJam
(Headline of the year: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
To: Bahbah
So the lame brains in the MSM continue to try to hunt for something to indict, and keep falling on their faces because it isn't true.
Wouldn't it be NICE if they actually, I don't know, didn't feed on death and Destruction?
There are other GOOD stories out there that happened they could "rush" to the newswire yet they yawn. they could cover how competant Governors and Mayors respond, not a word. After they realized the Governors weren't going to respond to their desire to indict Bush they were exiled. Especially Barbour who creamed them over on CNN. LOL
To: BCrago66
The AP was not so inclined (to kill the story) when it reported the crowd booing when told of Clinton's heart operation - "and Bush did nothing"
358
posted on
09/04/2005 3:41:32 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: Muzzle_em
Read the "Drudge Manifesto" if you havent yet. MSM media makes more errors than most know
359
posted on
09/04/2005 3:42:04 PM PDT
by
Cougar66
(The only liberal movement is what's in their diapers. .)
To: pepperhead
Get firefox and set it to only load images from originating website. Already have it and thanks, didn't think outside the box. Good suggestion.
360
posted on
09/04/2005 3:42:18 PM PDT
by
ScreamingFist
(Peace through Stupidity. NRA)
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