[MineralMan]

""There was no food, water or shelter" in Gretna City, Lawson said. "We did not have the wherewithal to deal with these people. If we had opened the bridge, our city would have looked like New Orleans does now: looted, burned and pillaged." "

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Nothing more to be said. The Police Chief exceeded his authority. He's meat.

[Petronski]

Yep. Q.E.D.