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The people should have been allowed to cross the bridge. The sheriff should have been in his right to control their movements(put on buses and driven to safe areas) once on his side of the river.

Don'tcha understand this is what was happening in Gretna until the ran out of fuel, etc to transport the walkers... When that happened they blocked the bridge to keep them from overtaking their evacuated city.....

Here's a quote from post #65 above where the Chief tells of hauling 6000 back across the river, pass the Superdome to an evacuation center located at I-10 and Causeway Blvd.. Communications is going to be the major shortcoming of this entire event or the root cause of much of the problems, imo.

Lawson said that as the crowd near Gretna grew into the thousands, his officers commandeered three buses and made numerous trips, carrying about 6,000 people to a designated evacuation point where Interstate 10 crosses under Causeway Boulevard until they ran out of gas.

And as I said, he should have been on the phone with the Governor's office seeking the assistance that he needed to deal with the fleeing people.

In a crisis like this, you do not turn people away. You provide the assistance that you can and await the arrival of the calvary.

I cannot believe that he called the Governors office and was advised to shoot over the heads of the oncoming flood of people. I guess that my point is that no sheriff has the right to do what was done here, regardless of whatever inane law was passed by the city council.
Once he could no longer handle the crowds, he has to involve the State authorities. Once the State can no longer handle the situation, they have to ask for assistance from the Federal Govt.

I stand by my earlier post. The lawsuits are going to fly.