[DB]

They were Army Corps of Engineers trying to work on the Levees they killed.

Just more total incompetence from the locals.

[Gillsie]

from online WSJ

Sunday, Sept. 4

6:00 p.m.: A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers says that some of its contractors were killed Sunday by police as they walked across a bridge on their way to repair a canal, the Associated Press reported. It wasn't immediately clear if these are the same men the police earlier said they shot.