A couple of my son's Army buddies went into NOLA with the Guard- they said beginning Tuesday after Katrina passed they were constantly shot at..luckily -like Mike- they'd been to Iraq and had combat experience.
I read after the Galveston 1900 storm the first couple of looters were SHOT dead. The looting stopped.
Mike won't hesitate to shoot back...
ailing STK orders, I was reading an article quoting some police resources that was pointing out that looting psychology is like rioting psychology in that most of them hope to get away with it by hiding in the crowd, so the key to stopping looting is zero tolerance right from the start. When it is allowed to escalate somebody is going to get hurt.
After a couple of days I resented them calling what was going on in NO "looting" because it was RIOT behavior by then, just like in L.A. 1992, shooting at anything remotely associated with whitey, and living lawlessly in the meantime.