1) The witnesses are shop stewards, ie Union reps. I never trust Pal Solidarity types.
2) They have been blogging (planting) their story on multiple sites all over the internet.
I'm suspicious.
From a socialist party website???
No
I don't -- I think it should be removed. Just look at the source -- Questionable to say the least.
I found the details of their first-person account credible, much of what they wrote is consistent with stories published in newspapers, and in fact aired on FNN, including the story about the hotel tourists being kicked out of their hotels, who hired buses that were commandeered by the authorities, and who were trapped and prevented from escaping by the bridge by police shooting in their direction. The Gretna police collaborated that they did prevent people from crossing in the UPI story.
The fact that the two paramedics are "SF Socialists" and they have some editorial about "racism" does not to me discredit a mostly straightforward account that has other collaboration. Other posts on the Internet have supported other parts of their story.