Posted on 09/27/2005 12:17:49 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
Live conference...
"Shermy.... you're not really that gullible are you? There's crime all over our country that the FBI could be investigating."
OK. I agree. I'm gullible. Tracing the names was up there in difficulty with the anthrax case and Bush/Rove specifically ordered the FBI to focus on the phantom cops because it would embarass Nagin and I was wrong to believe thta if Bush/Rove wanted revenge they would have gone after Blanco, and I didn't hear Bush fall on his own sword (too much IMO) and say he wanted to look forward. Also, the Louisiana posters making no comments linking this scandal to grand national political intrigues must be trolls.
Y'know what we need? We need some of the police in Baghdad to come to New Orleans to train a new NOPD. I know, I know, they'll call the French Quarter the "Triangle of Death" (especially the morning after Mardi Gras), and they'll complain that they're stuck in a "quagmire" in the Ninth Ward (literally, if those levees keep seeping), but really, the sacrifice is worth it if they can help us establish a functioning democracy in New Orleans!
}:-)4
bump for DNC deathwatch
I wonder if Riley will be next
http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/special_reports/katrina/story/2688723p-11232345c.html
New Orleans police chief defends officers
By MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press Writer
Last Updated 12:54 pm PDT Wednesday, September 7, 2005
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Fed up with the criticism, New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass said Monday that his officers held their ground without food, water and even ammunition in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
"In the annals of history, no police department in the history of the world was asked to do what we (were) asked," Compass said with a mix of anger and pride.
Two police officers killed themselves. Another was shot in the head. Compass said 150 had to be rescued from eight feet of water and others had gotten infections from walking through the murky soup of chemicals and pollutants in flooded areas of the city.
Compass denied that police officers deserted in droves. Some officers had abandoned their jobs, he said, but he did not know how many. He said the department was doing a roll call.
At a news conference earlier Monday in New Orleans, Deputy Police Superintendent Warren Riley said between 400 and 500 officers on the 1,600-member police force are unaccounted for.
Some lost their homes and some are looking for their families. "Some simply left because they said they could not deal with the catastrophe," Riley said.
The officers still on the beat in the flooded city are being cycled off duty and given five-day vacations in Las Vegas and Atlanta, where they will be offered counseling, officials said.
Compass, visiting the emergency operations center in Baton Rouge on his first trip outside New Orleans since the storm hit, said New Orleans had police officers "who made the ultimate sacrifice for this city."
"We had no food. We had no water. We ran out of ammunition. We had no vehicles. We were fighting in waist deep water that was infected and polluted," he said.
Compass said the looting and criminal activity involved a small group of people preying on the weak after being thrust into evacuation areas with regular citizens.
As for reports that police stood by while women were raped and people were beaten, the chief responded: "Are you crazy? We did everything that was humanly possible to protect human life."
Without communication or lights, officers sometimes had to follow the traces of light made by fired weapons and physically wrest the guns from individuals' hands, Compass said. He said he did not know how many people were shot by police since Katrina came ashore.
When asked what he thought of federal and state officials' response to the storm, Compass did not offer criticism.
"I'm not a bureaucrat. I'm a police chief. Those type of questions I don't really answer," he said. "We needed more resources, but those resources didn't come."
What did Bush know when did he know it cuz we all know this is his fault!
Not exactly. Red beans and rice is on Mondays only. Corruption in NOLA is 24/7, like titties and beer.
I reported this on FR last week or before.
The moment Nagin said the NO cops were in Vegas, I knew what was up.
....and apparently the FBI is saying that 420 of them don't exist.
NOPD created ghost officers.
And they would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
LOL
The media will not be quite as hysterical about that now.
4:15 P.M. - (AP):
Police say storm victims are being raped and beaten inside the New Orleans Convention Center.About 15,200 people who had taken shelter at the convention center to await buses grew increasingly hostile.
Police Chief Eddie Compass says he sent in 88 officers to quell the situation at the building, but they were quickly beaten back by an angry mob.
Compass says, "We have individuals who are getting raped, we have individuals who are getting beaten."
He says tourists are walking in that direction and they are getting preyed upon.
In hopes of defusing the unrest at the convention center, Mayor Ray Nagin gave the refugees permission to march across a bridge to the city's unflooded west bank for whatever relief they can find. But the bedlam appeared to make leaving difficult.
"It's a sad day in the city of New Orleans when a hero makes a decision like this," Nagin said. "He leaves the apartment in pretty good shape and with a significant amount of leadership."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050927/ap_on_re_us/rita_new_orleans_hk2
He left the APARTMENT in pretty good shape. The NO police DEPARTMENT is FUBAR, however.
ping
Hannity just said "Take my word for it, Allen will be the Republican Candidate"! We're on kids, work on the site.
Re: Tony Snow
This discussion starts around here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492034/posts?page=169#169
LOL!
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