Posted on 09/26/2005 11:45:14 AM PDT by stan_sipple
Mark Roper spent two weeks in St. Gabriel, La., this month, moving the bodies of Hurricane Katrinas New Orleans victims into refrigerated trailers. After watching the steady stream of corpses, Ropers biggest surprise about the dead: almost all were elderly or homeless. Most of the dead had drowned, Roper said. Others had died of dehydration, probably caused by abandonment, he said.
He was surprised by the number of homicides people with gunshot wounds to their heads and backs.
Autopsies were performed on those victims, Roper said.
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bush's private army is guilty
"He was surprised by the number of homicides people with gunshot wounds to their heads and backs"
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I didn't see any stats or numbers on the dead he had seen.
How could he tell which were homeless from looking at the body?
susie
I wonder if it would be safe to say that a large number of these could be classified as 'former looters'.
Same guys who bombed the levees?
I will contact the newspaper for details, after all a lot to us here in nebraska might be just another day somewhere else
Remove the troops from occupied New Orleans!
-Mother Sheehan
same guy who deliberately rammed barges into the levees on different canals, simultaneously
They aren't talking about those who are drained of blood.
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Because if you live in NO you are homeless. Simple really. Just look at em!
"How could he tell which were homeless from looking at the body? "
They have a little "W" tattooed in the side of their head.
No, it was Bush, they said he was in a helicopter over NO, and had a remote detonator to blow up the levee's and flood the 'hood, after the Halliburton! hurricane failed to do the job.
Haven't you heard? :o)
Exactly. He might have been surprised by how few there were.
"He was surprised by the number of homicides people with gunshot wounds to their heads and backs"
the plot thickens, why didnt Jimmy Carter think of that when massive looting occurred in NYC during Summer 77 blackout
DMOS. Federalized. Volunteer.
What about that $600K contract Blanco awarded to that big funeral home company?
Josh Swartzlander, a junior from Lincoln, Neb., who carries a 4.0 grade point average at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is a member of the school newspaper staff. A two-time intern at the Lincoln Journal Star, he plans to follow the footsteps of his parents, who are both newspaper reporters.
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