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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: George Oh Well
The police shot at a gang of 8 or 9 people who were themselves shooting at 14 contractors attempting to cross the bridge. No contractors were killed. 5 gang bangers were killed. This is the most decent accomplishment of the NOPD yet!
WELL SAID!!!
To: George Oh Well
news reports I've heard say gunMAN..as in 1..I'll wait for the official story before I make any more comments in this incident..
422
posted on
09/04/2005 3:58:37 PM PDT
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(Honest officer, I wasn't speeding.....I was qualifying)
To: wimpycat
this morning I saw some footage of a heavyset, (black) NOPD officer aiming a rifle at the head of a looter with an armful of clothes. I think that is old footage, like from Wednesday or Thursday. Yeah, I'd give that officer a medal. The ones out there working are really really showing the good side of humanity. It's literally thankless work.
423
posted on
09/04/2005 3:59:10 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: George Oh Well
The police shot at a gang of 8 or 9 people who were themselves shooting at 14 contractors attempting to cross the bridge. No contractors were killed. 5 gang bangers were killed. This is the most decent accomplishment of the NOPD yet! I hope THIS story is true and that word spreads quickly through the cockroach net that the NOPD has waken up.
To: All
Glad to see the mods owning up to their initial error, and rectifying same by reinstating this thread.
425
posted on
09/04/2005 3:59:54 PM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-G-d, PRO-LIFE..." -- FR founder Jim Robinson)
To: JellyJam
Thanks. I'm sure it'll all sort out soon enough.
To: Anti-Bubba182
To: Libertarian444
"Anderson Cooper on CNN lobbing softballs to Blanco mouthpiece James Lee Witt blaming Bush for cutting levee funding..."Somebody ask him about the emergency planning he and his group grafted from the taxpayers!
428
posted on
09/04/2005 4:00:39 PM PDT
by
RasterMaster
(Saddam's family were WMD's - He's behind bars & his sons are DEAD!)
To: LibertyRocks
Well he lost me when he went into Global warming..oh no..Nagin on 60 mins!
429
posted on
09/04/2005 4:00:47 PM PDT
by
pitinkie
(revenge will be sweet)
To: JellyJam
somehow I didn't think they would've shot at contractors; they would know who's who. In fact, I bet the contractors wear orange vests or something to identify them. But then I wouldn't think that the armed thugs would have had a reason to shoot at the contractors either. Guess I'm not understanding the we're gonna shoot at humans just because we can mentality.
To: LibertyRocks
They will not report again till get some kind of real confirmation on who is dead and who is not, etc...My, that's "prudent".
I would expect any reputable news organization to spew whatever unconfirmed and unsourced AP/Reuters/CNN BS comes across their screen.
Common sense, yes?
Isn't this what they now teach at Columbia SoJ?
431
posted on
09/04/2005 4:01:27 PM PDT
by
angkor
To: tbagot
... think I saw Kerry windsurfing in the easternmost parish of New Orleans.Actually, he couldn't be there. I saw him at a Wendy's trying to order escargot.
432
posted on
09/04/2005 4:01:39 PM PDT
by
Real Cynic No More
(Al-Jazeera is to the Iraqi War as CBS was to the Vietnam War.)
To: Cougar66
They all have someone whose job it is to monitor the wires and feed breaking news to the on-air person. No one wants to wait for fear of being scooped.
I don't watch or read CNN, so I referenced FNC.
433
posted on
09/04/2005 4:01:50 PM PDT
by
reformedliberal
(Bless our troops and pray for our nation.)
To: pitinkie
if Nagin is on 60 minutes..any bets on whether or not they'll ask about the buses not used??
434
posted on
09/04/2005 4:02:09 PM PDT
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(Honest officer, I wasn't speeding.....I was qualifying)
To: Fitzcarraldo
"I hope THIS story is true"
I know what your implying, but the truth is we shouldn't have to HOPE a story is true, the damn media is irresponsible.
435
posted on
09/04/2005 4:02:25 PM PDT
by
SeaBiscuit
(God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
To: pitinkie
Ahhhh.. yeah would've lost me too. I missed that part of the conference apparently. Started listening when it was already on - at least the one I saw on WWLTV. (o:
To: golas1964
Moderator: Please pull my previous post (41). Wish I'd had the accurate story first.
437
posted on
09/04/2005 4:02:44 PM PDT
by
golas1964
("He tasks me... He tasks me, and I shall have him!")
To: Chucky is a girlie man
Its the New Orleans police,what did you expect?Fox news even caught them looting a store the other night so who's side are they on anyway?
To: Peach
Re: CNN. I actually thought they had outstanding reporting early on. They did so much better than Fox. Now I am back to Fox.
About 2 days about they went into entirely Bush bash mode, and the thing is...they could have kept me as a viewer since I was so disgusted with Shep and Geraldo.
But Fox got better and CNN got so much worse.
CNN just does breaking news better than Fox. I think that new leftist executive producer put out the word to get Bush on this.
To: LibertyRocks
And Anderson so breathlessly egging him on..
440
posted on
09/04/2005 4:03:51 PM PDT
by
pitinkie
(revenge will be sweet)
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