Posted on 04/05/2007 10:55:25 AM PDT by traviskicks
NEW ORLEANS, April 3 (UPI) -- A federal judge has dismissed a claim that local police violated the right to travel of New Orleans residents trying to get out after Hurricane Katrina.
Tracy and Dorothy Dickerson sued Gretna, the Gretna Police Department and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office. They said they were not allowed to use the Crescent City Connection, which crosses the Mississippi River.
U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon said there is no right to travel within a state guaranteed by the Constitution. The judge also found that the Dickersons missed the deadline for certification as a class-action suit.
Yeah I saw a video of a couple of them “shopping” for shoes with all of the other looters in Wal Mart. I also saw a video of them protecting everyone from a 70+ old lady by tackling her in her home so they could get the banged up old revolver she had. That was quite a threat they neutralized.
You saw video of Kenner cops looting shoes? Got a UTube link? Got any legitimate link to back that up? Or just your faulty year and a half old recollection?
“The police had no cause to prevent the movement of people out of a disaster area.”
What the police did was right. By crossing the bridge into Gretna and the West Bank, the people would have been going deeper into the bayou. The people needed to go in the other direction, up towards Baton Rouge, to get out.
And, Gretna was already under attack by thugs. The Oakridge Mall, right on the other side of the bridge was looted and set on fire. I don’t blame the West Bank people for protecting themselves.
I saw that video. It was cops, but not Kenner cops. And I have no problem with them helping themselves to shoes or food. They were working shifts in waist deep water. They needed dry shoes.
Remember, the entire city was under a mandatory evacuation order. The people that chose to ignore that order put themselves at risk.
— I’ll take government that will protect me and my family.
— As soon as you find a government that can and will do that, let us know.
Assuming the government thinks it’s safe for him to communicate with us.
Seems like the judge made the right call
My thoughts exactly. Our Constitution is in serious trouble.
Just calling out Kidster for making up false stories about the Kenner cops. Sure, a lot of New Orleans cops looted - some of them perhaps for legitimate reasons - but that doesn’t really have anything to do with this story about Kenner cops doing their jobs.
Not going to tell you where I live - but we have good cops here. They keep the bad element out, or they get carried out.
Called.
I was talking about the NO cops and the videos of thier “protection and service” I saw immediately following Katrina. I wasn’t making up stories, just relaying information available and seen.
The NO cops did fine.
I have no problem with them ‘liberating’ needed supplies given the situation they were in.
I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. If the cops grab a shopping cart and fill it with shoes and toys and clothes while people are running around also looting all around them, that’s p!ss poor IMHO.
I’ll believe most did thier duty with honor but there were more than the usual amount of bad apples in that barrel.
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