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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: Salvation; angkor; pollywog
See #312

I know that the AP changed the story to reflect what actually happened.

I was saying that the AP originally said that the Army Corps originally confirmed that it was the police who shot at the contractors...

Given the AP's history of twisting information...I don't even assume that they were reporting the truth that the Army Corps ever did confirm that the police shot at the contractors.....they may have...or the AP may have made that up...I don't trust the AP to report the absolute truth, given their history.

441 posted on 09/04/2005 4:03:58 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: onyx
MSM has become what it alleged the internet was.

BUMP!

442 posted on 09/04/2005 4:04:20 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: INSENSITIVE GUY

I expect that the NOPD still on the job are the good guys and actually care about what's going on..the rest...pfffft..


443 posted on 09/04/2005 4:04:27 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (Honest officer, I wasn't speeding.....I was qualifying)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Army Corp of Engineering rep on WWL TV live now


444 posted on 09/04/2005 4:04:48 PM PDT by PureSolace (God save us all)
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To: tbagot

You never know...
REPORT ON NOW:
ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS NOW ON TV:
17th Canal Bridge - Contractors were fired at but not shot...
Police reports will contain details.


445 posted on 09/04/2005 4:04:58 PM PDT by LibertyRocks
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To: All

here's the updated AP story:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Katrina%20Shootings%20HK1


446 posted on 09/04/2005 4:05:02 PM PDT by George Oh Well
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To: Patriot from Philly

I just read this in MSN and the bad guys were the ones that bit the dust. No contractors were injured.

It's time to clean more than one mess up in NO.


447 posted on 09/04/2005 4:05:10 PM PDT by PROSOUTH ( Deo Vindice "God Will Vindicate")
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To: RasterMaster

On MSNBC, they were really feeling sorry for the police...talking about the 2 that committed suicide,

and said that something like half have quit!!!


448 posted on 09/04/2005 4:06:12 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: pitinkie

Ahhh... I imagine his rhetoric changes in a one-on-one interview. I watched a press conference. Makes sense now. (o:


449 posted on 09/04/2005 4:06:44 PM PDT by LibertyRocks
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To: Patriot from Philly

I agree with your assessment completely.


450 posted on 09/04/2005 4:07:03 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: LibertyRocks

He is blaming the feds..totally!


451 posted on 09/04/2005 4:07:52 PM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: Txsleuth

watching CNN interview with Nagin..it's not my problem, it's a problem between the state and the feds arguing about who has authority when..he doesn't want to hear it..


452 posted on 09/04/2005 4:08:05 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (Honest officer, I wasn't speeding.....I was qualifying)
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To: All
A scanner is now online in Louisiana scanning their state radio system. The provider says you'll hear the National Guard and Louisiana State Patrol Troop B.

http://ve3nsv.no-ip.org:8000/louisiana.m3u

As far as the call signs, anything Eagle is someone in a helicopter. Pelican is someone really high up. I've heard several people ask them for authorization to do missions and stuff. Pelican Base, im not sure what that is. Its not the state EOC because I have heard Pelican Base calling the state eoc several times. Your guess is just as good as mine. Anything log is logistics operations. SRT is the special response team, normally SWAT. There is another callsign that is like "asauce" (how it sounds) . I'm not sure who these guys are, but im guessing that they are some type of security team. Several references will be made to "Ultimate Jock". I'm not sure who he is, but he is also someone high up that has given people authorization to do missions and declined them to do missions.

Thanks to Gordon, Site Admin at http://www.scangwinnett.com for the info!

453 posted on 09/04/2005 4:08:34 PM PDT by Sunshine55 (www.MoveonTaft.org)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

I think it went more like this ... " 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 ... "


454 posted on 09/04/2005 4:08:57 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: dennisw
Get everybody out and blow the river levees. It's the only way to be sure.

Actually, didn't Ripley advise nukes?

455 posted on 09/04/2005 4:09:03 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots." [Jay Lessig, 2/7/2005])
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To: RasterMaster

I am hoping to see ole James Lee Witt testifying in the hearings about what they DIDN'T do to build up the levees!!!


456 posted on 09/04/2005 4:09:13 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: metmom

No flame from me. I think you make sense. It's sad, but I can't argue with it.


457 posted on 09/04/2005 4:09:24 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (The repenting soul is the victorious soul)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
"gentlemen, I have a gun pointed at your heads..if you don't drop and run, things will get messy"..they took him at his word..

LOL! Or words to that effect...

Maybe he said, "HALT, YOU VARLETS! DIVEST YOURSELVES OF YOUR PURLOINED LOOT, OR I WILL USE DEADLY FORCE AGAINST YOU!"

Something tells me, that he would have used much earthier language. LOL! It was funny the way those dudes sort of hesitated before dropping the loot, which led me to believe it was the cop's words that convinced them a few pair of pants and shirts weren't worth the trouble.

458 posted on 09/04/2005 4:10:15 PM PDT by wimpycat (Hyperbole is the opiate of the activist wacko.)
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To: Indy Pendance
" It always does. Rove is at it again."

I love how the Democrats seem to ascribe God-like powers to Karl Rove. They think he is God and they are in open rebellion against him, I guess.

Bishop Berkeley had a theory that we are all essentailly figments of Karl Rove's imagination. Or something like that. I used to think it was absurd, but now it almost makes sense that all of reality might merely be thought in the mind of the creator. Of course, it all feels pretty real to me.

459 posted on 09/04/2005 4:10:44 PM PDT by Montfort (Check out The Figurehead, by Thomas Larus at lulu.com. Montfort is the protagonist.)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

"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."

Yes, NBC had a news-camera team on that bridge, and reported the story straight in the 6:30pm EDT news:

Armed men fired on the contractors, and were 5 of them killed and several more injured in a firefight by police.
Contractors and police not seriously hurt.


460 posted on 09/04/2005 4:11:48 PM PDT by edwin hubble
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