The car wasn’t abandoned; it was confiscated from the Good Samaritan who’d driven Glover to the police in search of help.
Thanks for the correction, I had thought it had been a car that had been left there/some non-working car.
I watched the documentary on NOPD problems during Katrina. I believe I would have had more potentially lethal problems with the police than others if I had been down there during that time.