[rdb3]

He was trying to keep the lawlessness from spreading and he probably saved lives.

Saved lives? We know that he cost some people their lives.

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[wideawake]

We know that he cost some people their lives.

We know nothing of the sort.

All we know is that he prevented the general ruckus from metastasizing beyond New Orleans.

I think we'll find that the deaths from dehydration (if any - at most we may find that dehydration was a contributing factor to some deaths at the Convention Center) were those of the infirm and elderly who were abandoned at the Convention Center.

I highly doubt that the crowd that marched up the bridge and confronted the Gretna police included dehydrated, infirm individuals - those people had already been left to die by the crowd.