Police Shoot 8 on New Orleans Bridge

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050904/ap_on_re_us/katrina_shootings_hk1

NEW ORLEANS - Police shot eight people carrying guns (!?!) on a New Orleans bridge Sunday, killing five or six of them, a deputy chief said.

Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said the shootings took place on the Danziger Bridge, which connects Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River.

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Lori Price

:cry:

:wow: :wow: :wow:

:cry: :cry: :cry:

...and my wife is totally impressed w/DU and your service. I'll get an extra 30 min of online time thanks to you (lol).

afterall, they think everyone should be armed..

and only the ones that vote Republican.

edit: here's a link to the story

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9208195/

http://moneycentral.msn.com/inc/news/providerredir.asp?feed=FT&Date=20050904&ID=5084629
'Both the Superdome and the Conference Center, where refugees were most concentrated, are situated close to the elevated highways that are the city's lifelines to the outside. Crowds even made their way up to the highways and started to cross the main bridge across the giant Mississippi but were turned back by police firing in the air.'

Police shot eight people carrying guns on a New Orleans bridge Sunday, killing five or six of them, a deputy chief said.

Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said the shootings took place on the Danziger Bridge, which connects Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River.

He said he had no other details
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9208195/

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Were they one of the roving gangs of criminals that we have heard about, or citizens that took up arms for self-defense?

nt

We don't know anything. Were they given a chance to disarm by the police? Did they fire on Police first? I'm not jumping to any conclusions over this one.

...can be morphed into Pakistani religious fanatic al Qaeda operative with a suicide bomb under his big, heavy parka, then Lord only knows what we're bound to be told about the people on the bridge.

Remember, the first press reports about the electrician from Brazil made him out to be a nervous Pakistani in a heavy coat who had run from police -- who had had no choice but to shoot him dead. Eye witnesses were interviewed, and they confirmed all that.

Too bad for the police that the security cameras were rolling:

• The man they shot was from Brazil, not Pakistan or the Mideast.
  
  
• He was not a Moslem extremist -- or a Moslem of any kind.
  
  
• He was not wearing a "heavy parka". He was wearing a light denim jacket.
  
  
• He did not run from police.
  
  
• His demeanor was calm and unsuspicious.

Both the police -- and their supposed eyewitness, whose remarks were duly printed up in the press -- were full of shit.


So yeah, we should follow the bridge shooting incident. It'll be interesting to see where it goes.

they were shot simply for refusing to
turn over their weapons to police.
If this is so, we're bound to see more
incidents like it in the near future.

My cynicism meter is pegged...did they need an "event" to reinforce a meme that these people are dangerous?

grab for Louisiana by Bush in the Washington Post article, why would they need to declare Martial Law and need all those ambulances and things if everyone is gone.

They kept the Red Cross out just like Fallujah so there would be no independent witnesses and are sending a message to the journalists that they can be shot just like the ones who have been targeted by Bush's elite SS in Iraq.

This is so horrible. When will Fitzgerald send in the Federal Marshalls or the Pentagon Flag Officers send in troops to remove Bush/Cheney forcibly from office.

How can we help? I think we can help by calling for Impeachment again and again to the media and Congress, they and we are in danger whether we do anything or not. Freedom's just another word for nothin left to lose.

Don't forget the March on Washington Sept. 24 ANSWER.com has more information and flyers to download.

Trying to walk out with it under their T-shirts!

Good thing we stopped them.

and there was a report of up to 20 people being held hostage by NOPD officers. I sure as hell hope this isnt connected in any way with that report.

There's something seriously wrong with this story. Since when do we arbitrarily shoot armed people without figuring out who they are beforehand!!! NRA, where are you????

we don't know the details.

Who says they didn't fire on the cops first?

New Orleans:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050904/ap_on_he_me/katrina_health

Doctors Hamstrung in Relief Efforts
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer
30 minutes ago

BATON ROUGE, La. - Volunteer physicians are pouring in to care for the sick, but red tape is keeping hundreds of others from caring for Hurricane Katrina survivors while health problems escalate.

Among the doctors stymied from helping out are 100 surgeons and paramedics in a state-of-the-art mobile hospital marooned in rural Mississippi.

"The bell was rung, the e-mails were sent off. ...We all got off work and deployed," said one of the frustrated surgeons, Dr. Preston "Chip" Rich of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"We have tried so hard to do the right thing. It took us 30 hours to get here," he said.

That government officials can't straighten out the mess and get them assigned to a relief effort now that they're just a few miles away "is just mind-boggling," he said.

While the doctors wait, the first predictable signs of disease from contaminated water began to emerge on Saturday: A Mississippi shelter was closed after 20 residents got sick with dysentery, probably from drinking contaminated water.

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note to self: keep my gun concealed.

:scared:




I guess the Minutemen that everybody was so sure were going to open up on the Mexicans have done a FAR better job than the Bushies...

I know some relief people have gone there from Calif - firemen, etc.
Maybe these cops were L.A.P.D.?

that would answer a lot.

"Withhold judgement"?? Fuck that, this is an internet message board and I will judge away... Here is my judgement: guilty. USA, you are guilty. Especially racist people in the United States, you are guilty.

...really, really happy. Overjoyed even.

damn them to hell!

Unconfirmed ... The Army Corp of Engineers is reporting that 8 of their people were shot on a bridge.

They are still trying to confirm this story.

mistaken identity!

FUCK!:wow:

Good god in heaven. This is FUBAR.

army corps of engineers report their contractors shot by police on bridge, more coming they said @ 6:03 e.s.t.

I am so glad he is in NO... the truth will come out.

Are these people nuts?

Who is in charge down there?

and get killed?

they wer shot on their way to work. On CNN. :(

This is so terrible :(

The police officers that have been on duty in that city since the beginning of the storm with no food, water, facilities, sleep, etc., need to be relieved. Obviously, they are beyond their capacity to function properly. What a shame. What a shame. Can it get any worse?

when a white supremacist regime declares war on anyone it deems "non-white."

"*Mistakes" can happen. Collateral damage and all that rot.

Now Fox is reporting that there were Contractors on the bridge and bad guys on the bridge. The bad guys were shooting at the Contractors and the police shot the bad guys. None of the Contractors were killed.

real-time misinfo test for the 'net

this is no way to deal with 'little' America

But don't worry... the false story will live on forever now. :grr:

http://www.nbc30.com/news/4887230/detail.html

Spokesman: Engineers Shot By New Orleans Police

NEW ORLEANS -- Police shot eight people carrying guns on a New Orleans bridge Sunday, killing five or six, a deputy chief said.

A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers said the victims were contractors on their way to repair a canal.

The contractors were walking across a bridge on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to fix the 17th Street Canal, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Corps.

Earlier Sunday, New Orleans Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people ("carrying guns," LOL!), killing five or six. The shootings took place on the Danziger Bridge, which spans a canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River.

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Lori Price

were shooting at the COE guys. the COE guys are ok.

They're trying to get some verification from ACoE or NOPD of what happened since the story is so fluid and there's no way to know what actually occurred yet.

New Orleans police shoot several armed people on a bridge!

New Orleans police shoot several contractors on a bridge!

New Orleans police shoot several gunmen who were shooting at several contractors on a bridge!

New Orleans police shoot a lone gunman who was shooting at several contractors on a bridge!

Tune in five minutes from now to hear a totally different story!


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get their lies straight...

Lori Price

As police sought to restore order, they encountered at least one person with a gun who fired on contractors with the Army Corps of Engineers, the Corps reported. The police fatally shot the gunman, the Corps said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9156612/

.. whether any of the gunmen were killed, were immediately available ... http://www.wral.com/news/4935160/detail.html

NOPD report they have shot at some people on a bridge.
ACoE report they were shot at on the same bridge.

The media runs a story about the NOPD shooting at the ACoE.

The truth (apparently) is that the NOPD shot at some people who were shooting at the ACoE.

The only people who were incorrect was the media for making a false assumption. I really don't see anything inconsistent other than the media's reporting. No one else has changed their story, just clarified it to fix the media error.

Looks at 2nd amendment.

If anyone would like to post the updated story, please feel free to do so. Thanks