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Danzig
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NEW ORLEANS -- What police presence there is in New Orleans and Biloxi, Miss., isn't slowing down looters.
A police spokesman in New Orleans said a police officer was shot in the head by a looter, but he's expected to recover.
Dozens of looters on historic Canal Street have ripped open steel gates to stores. Some filled plastic garbage cans to carry or float stolen goods.
In Biloxi, looters picked through slot machines of damaged casinos to see if they still have coins inside.
A police spokesman in New Orleans said a police officer was shot in the head by a looter, but he's expected to recover.
Dozens of looters on historic Canal Street have ripped open steel gates to stores. Some filled plastic garbage cans to carry or float stolen goods.
In Biloxi, looters picked through slot machines of damaged casinos to see if they still have coins inside.
crabcake
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jazz lady said:I was watching one piece where they were flying over New Orleans, Gulfport, and Biloxi in a helicopter. The devastation is complete and absolutely incredible.
The news this morning is saying that the conditions (primarily the flooding) is actually getting worse vs. better. There was a long line of volunteers with flat-bottom boats who came from outer areas to help search for survivors, and they said that some of the boats were going past dead bodies floating to continue to search for survivors. They're even talking about evacuating the football stadium folks.
Danzig
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Governor Orders Evacuations in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS - The flooding in New Orleans grew worse by the minute Tuesday, prompting Gov. Kathleen Blanco to say that everyone still in the city, now huddled in the Superdome and other rescue centers, need to leave.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hurricane_katrina;_ylt=ApehJr1lcwKCb1Tpqd3ARxcbLisB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
NEW ORLEANS - The flooding in New Orleans grew worse by the minute Tuesday, prompting Gov. Kathleen Blanco to say that everyone still in the city, now huddled in the Superdome and other rescue centers, need to leave.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hurricane_katrina;_ylt=ApehJr1lcwKCb1Tpqd3ARxcbLisB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
morganj614
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Danzig said:
The pics are UFB. I don't know how they can ever recover from this. :sad:
Penn
Dancing Up A Storm
Yeah; Think about it - they're talking months - not weeks or days, before life returns to some normalcy down there.morganj614 said:
They're showing pictures of police capturing looters. Somebody tell me please, how you can justify going into a store and taking what you want, or will? Just because it's an emergency, does that mean things have a "free" sign on them?
aps45819
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One of the stories on WTOP had some guy saying it was payback for those "oppresed by society". Guess the perpetual victims thought it was payday.Penn said:Somebody tell me please, how you can justify going into a store and taking what you want, or will? Just because it's an emergency, does that mean things have a "free" sign on them?
Maybe that's why they didn't evacuate - they wanted to get those free TVs and jeans. 
Looting is a part of life in any city when the lights go out or some other disabling thing happens. The minute the cops are otherwise occupied or unable to respond, the dirtbags come out and start stealing things.
This tells me that, under normal circumstances, there are a lot of people who have criminal tendencies but are kept in check by law enforcement. You'd think city officials would notice that as well and use it to deter crime when things are normal.
I'll bet if NO would put out a policy statement that cops are to shoot looters on sight, it would stop.
Looting is a part of life in any city when the lights go out or some other disabling thing happens. The minute the cops are otherwise occupied or unable to respond, the dirtbags come out and start stealing things.
This tells me that, under normal circumstances, there are a lot of people who have criminal tendencies but are kept in check by law enforcement. You'd think city officials would notice that as well and use it to deter crime when things are normal.
I'll bet if NO would put out a policy statement that cops are to shoot looters on sight, it would stop.
Maxine Waters. Remember the LA riots?Penn said:
Funny:
I was listening to Chris Core last night and he was talking about the looters. This black lady calls up and starts reading him the riot act for wanting to shoot looters (which is where I got the idea in my previous post). She says, "Would you say that if the looters were white?" Core replies, "I have no idea what color the looters are - do you?" And the woman says, "I assume they're black..."
That's interesting. She calls to accuse Core of racism but it's SHE that is assuming the looters are black.
I was listening to Chris Core last night and he was talking about the looters. This black lady calls up and starts reading him the riot act for wanting to shoot looters (which is where I got the idea in my previous post). She says, "Would you say that if the looters were white?" Core replies, "I have no idea what color the looters are - do you?" And the woman says, "I assume they're black..."
That's interesting. She calls to accuse Core of racism but it's SHE that is assuming the looters are black.