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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

You have got to be kidding me! Who needs Iraqi insurgents when you've got the NOPD?!!


41 posted on 09/04/2005 3:18:53 PM PDT by golas1964 ("He tasks me... He tasks me, and I shall have him!")
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To: hole_n_one

What a CF! Those who understand, understand...


42 posted on 09/04/2005 3:18:54 PM PDT by Knute (W- Yep, He's STILL the President!)
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To: Bahbah

It IS wrong - Now AP says the contracters were fired on by a group of men - police took out THOSE gunmen!!!


44 posted on 09/04/2005 3:18:59 PM PDT by dk88 (Live loud)
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To: Chucky is a girlie man
On the west coast, we heard about an hour ago 7 or 8 people had been shot. We assumed they were bad guys, looters.

They just broke the news on this 5 minutes ago, that these were the contractors going in to help.

45 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:00 PM PDT by Black Tooth
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

First the Ray Nagin Memorial Motor Pool, and now this. This is a tragic metaphor for the incompetence of the local authorities. The governor is doing *everything* she can to prevent a unified chain of command, which is the only thing that can mitigate the ever present risks of such "bleu-on-blue" engagements.

The blood of those contractors is on the hands of the governor and her advisors.


46 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:01 PM PDT by karlito
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To: Chucky is a girlie man
OH MY GOD.

But weren't the orders "shoot to kill?" Seems like things are still not being coordinated...

47 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:02 PM PDT by podkane
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

Why were the previous threads pulled? Anybody know?


48 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:02 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: WhiteGuy

Oh my. I hope this is a mistake.


49 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:04 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: Maigret

"If only Bush had sent in the military before..."

You know the drill.


50 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:09 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: JellyJam

Oh my god....the media has the freaking story wrong!


51 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:10 PM PDT by Dog
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

Let's see how this one plays out...right now the BBC and media here is trying to give the police chief hero status for trying to maintain any sort of control while half of the department bugged out and turned in their badges.

Broad daylight here...not a nighttime shooting...some SERIOUS explaining to do.


52 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:10 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: Echo Talon

Whoa! This was first reported as looters being shot!


53 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:11 PM PDT by Youngblood
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

Incredible.


54 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:17 PM PDT by World'sGoneInsane (LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN, LET NO ONE FORGET)
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To: JellyJam

I hope your report is accurate


55 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:20 PM PDT by mystery-ak (Home of the free, because of the Brave.....do you understand that Cindy?)
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To: JellyJam

I sure hope your report is correct.


56 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:31 PM PDT by Siouxz ( Freepers are the best!!!)
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To: Dog

Yeah, go figure. :-)


57 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:32 PM PDT by JellyJam (Headline of the year: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

This is insane. I am straining to understand how this could accidently happen, but so far, I cannot see how contractors, in broad daylight, could be mistaken for armed looters or gang members. As I said before, this is insane!


58 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:36 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (There's gonna be hell to pay, so get out yer checkbooks!)
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To: hole_n_one

Horrible...Horrrible....................just speechless!


59 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:36 PM PDT by afnamvet
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To: Giddyupgo
They can't shoot the thugs.....but now this????? God Help Us.

Yeah, repairing a levee will get you killed but looting gets you a pat on the back? "New Orleans, the criminals Playground"

60 posted on 09/04/2005 3:19:37 PM PDT by msnimje (CNN - Constant Negative Nonsense)
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