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Police Shoot 8 on New Orleans Bridge
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Posted on 09/04/2005 1:58:59 PM PDT by hole_n_one

Edited on 09/04/2005 3:30:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: wardaddy

LA Times reporting NOPD shot and killed 2 others that attacked a deputy doing SAR operations


501 posted on 09/05/2005 12:27:21 AM PDT by BurbankKarl (u)
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To: BurbankKarl

good....sadly though most will just melt away


502 posted on 09/05/2005 12:33:22 AM PDT by wardaddy (i forgot)
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To: wardaddy
NOLA was majority white from General Butler's visit until 1974....as Jefferson parish grew.

Yep. Even the Cubans, Hondurans, and Nicaraguans went to Jeff Parish, particularly Metairie. It's telling that the St. Joseph's festival (the main Italian festa) has been held in Jeff Parish since the 1980s.

503 posted on 09/05/2005 12:33:24 AM PDT by Clemenza (Proud "Free Traitor" & Capitalist Pig)
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To: BurbankKarl
Now they are reporting that these were actually contractors on their way to work helping fix a canal.

I believe that the New Orleans Police Department has made a rather serious error. Again.

504 posted on 09/05/2005 12:43:44 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: hole_n_one

I know what you`re thinking.Did he fire six shots or only five?Well to tell you the truth,in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself.But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you`ve got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? Well,do ya,punk?


505 posted on 09/05/2005 4:03:08 AM PDT by jackyl (Danziger Firing Range Open 24/7)
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To: hole_n_one

Stand Up And Be Counted For What You Are About To Receive


506 posted on 09/05/2005 4:10:10 AM PDT by jackyl (We Salute You New Orleans)
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To: bigot

Nobody left them there. They left themselves there. And the city decided not to physically organize an evacuation before the storm of the 100,000 or so who didn't get themselves out because they didn't have a car.

So why is it the president's fault when the city and the state decided they couldn't move them?

Is the president supposed to override the power of a governor when it's the governor's call?

If she wanted the president to be responsible, she would have had to let Fema take over. And she didn't want that. She wanted Fema to do what her people said. So, on her head be it.


507 posted on 09/05/2005 6:47:54 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: ridesthemiles
If these were white contractors trying to survey damage for future repairs, it's going to get real messy. I see a mass exodus of other volunteers.

AP's first report was stated in err. The actual truth is: Thugs shot at the volunteers, the police killed 2 of the thugs, criticially wounded 1, and injured 3, according to Fox.

If the AP was more interested in telling the truth and getting things right, rather than hurrying to report their bias....I doubt this kind of misinformation would have been in black and white.

508 posted on 09/05/2005 6:52:10 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: Riverman94610
Do you know for sure the gunmen were black?

While it's highly likely that they were, this is NOLA after all, but that same fact means it's also highly likely the police that shot them were also black.

I predict the NAACP and ACLU won't say boo.

509 posted on 09/05/2005 8:05:50 AM PDT by El Gato
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To: hole_n_one

Happy Trails to some New Orleans residents who had their criminal careers cut short.


510 posted on 09/05/2005 11:23:53 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: RichInOC
Those aren't doughnuts at the Cafe du Monde. Those are beignets, pronounced been-YAYS. You may have noticed that they are square, flatish, and don't have holes. Served hot out of the grease and covered with powdered sugar. The sugar high hits almost immediately.
511 posted on 09/05/2005 5:10:15 PM PDT by Poker_Man
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To: Poker_Man
Tell that to Jimmy Buffett. He wrote it...

;-)

512 posted on 09/05/2005 5:14:15 PM PDT by RichInOC ("The coffee is strong at Cafe du Monde, the doughnuts are too hot to touch..." Save the Big Greasy!)
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To: hole_n_one

I'm sure that saved us millions in:

fewer food stamps to dole out
less welfare to dole out
fewer cells to maintain
fewer college degrees to pay for (while in prison)
fewer parole officers required
fewer patrolmen to raid their public housing homes
frees up public housing for others
less medical subsidy
less loss through theft at local businesses (saving consumers where it matters most)
etc, etc.

Or, we could say it's a shame that the poor people had to be shot, when we could have just used diplomacy.....



513 posted on 09/05/2005 9:03:53 PM PDT by DilJective
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To: Txsleuth
I am surprised the lawyers aren't already lined up at these shelters signing up people to sue any one they can find...

They are, at the Astrodome.

514 posted on 09/06/2005 4:16:27 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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To: DilJective

"Or, we could say it's a shame that the poor people had to be shot, when we could have just used diplomacy....."

What gets me is this:

"Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said."

What in the world were those cretins thinking, shooting at people who are there to make life possible?

Let me get my tinfoil hat on, here...is there more to this than simple barbarity and stupidity? I mean, even Homer Simpson has enough sense to put a doughnut into his mouth instead of his eye.

Could any small part of this be politically motivated? Could there be agents provocateur trying to inflame the situation?


515 posted on 09/06/2005 5:39:08 PM PDT by dsc
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To: dsc

These people have received years of rally cries from the far left to "rise up" against the wealthy and authority figures. Anyone with a job represented someone with wealth. Anyone in uniform represented authority. Why shouldn't they hate rescue workers or contractors? These people represent everything they have been taught to hate by the Clintons, the Kennedy-klan, Jesse Jackson, and other high-profile leftists/marxists.

I am sure they will be remembered as martyrs in their public housing areas.


516 posted on 09/06/2005 6:05:29 PM PDT by DilJective
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To: hole_n_one

May I guess that the crime was carrying a gun in a city out of control? If I was in NO, I would have a gun.


517 posted on 09/06/2005 10:42:35 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: hole_n_one
Tony Danza shot someone on a bridge?

518 posted on 09/07/2005 6:10:39 PM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
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