FEMA trailer resident killed in standoff with police

June 4, 2008

FEMA trailer resident killed in standoff with police

The Associated Press

New Orleans police say a man is dead following a nearly 10 hour standoff.

Police say the standoff began Tuesday afternoon when the unidentified man chased away FEMA workers, who were at the victim’s Lakeview home to make arrangement to reclaim the trailer in which he was living.

Though he didn’t actually draw his gun, police say the man placed his hand on it near his waistband while ordering the FEMA workers to leave the trailer.

The workers called police, who tried to talk the man into leaving the house adjacent to the trailer, where he had locked himself in, but he refused.

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SWAT team surrounds man barricaded in FEMA trailer
by The Times-Picayune
Tuesday June 03, 2008, 6:08 PM

An NOPD SWAT team Tuesday afternoon surrounded a house in Lakeview as a resident who learned he was about to lose his trailer threatened a FEMA official with a gun and barricaded himself inside the trailer, police said.

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/swat_team_surrounds_man_barica.html

Toxic FEMA Trailers May See Comeback in 2008 Hurricane Season

Agency May Have to Supply Troubled Trailers if Disaster Strikes
FEMA may have to rely on so-called toxic trailers in hurricane season 2008 if disaster strikes again. Meanwhile, the agency is seeking alternatives for disaster housing.

In a new twist in the story of toxic FEMA trailers on the Gulf Coast, the government has admitted that it may end up housing disaster victims in the troubled dwellings once again this hurricane season, reports the Associated Press.

After reports of victims being poisoned by harmful off-gassing of formaldehyde from the trailers, FEMA began taking steps to move people out of them. However, the AP obtained a copy of the agency's 2008 hurricane preparedness report, which concluded that the head of FEMA could approve the use of similar trailers, as long as they meet the agency's standard for low formaldehyde levels.

http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/eco-friendly/fema-trailers-2008-hurricanes-460603

Allison v. United States • Ð; 1895; 160 U.S. 203; 216
Is it reasonable to believe that you’re in immediate deadly danger if a person, known to be abusive, known to carry a pistol, and who has made public threats against your life, makes a motion as if to draw down on you, even if it turns out he wasn’t armed at the time YES; If there is no corroborating evidence besides your testimony, may the jury decide to take your word for it and acquit based on your credibility YES; If you have your deer rifle with you while visiting a friend’s house and your adversary shows up, and in an ensuing confrontation you shoot him, can the judge instruct the jury that you’re guilty of murder if you armed yourself to go hunt down your adversary, when there is no evidence to support this claim NO.


Gourko v. United States • Ð; 1894; 153 U.S. 183; 189
If you shoot someone who has repeatedly threatened you, and the circumstances of the shooting are not found to be justifiable as self defense, does the fact that you armed yourself in response to the threat automatically make the shooting murder (as opposed to manslaughter)
NO.

Rowe v. United States • Ð; 1896; 164 U.S. 546; 247
If a man is provoked into making a minor assault on someone, and then backs off in good faith, is his right to self defense restored if the person he assaulted attacks him with a deadly weapon? YES; Is he required to retreat under such circumstances ; Is he under an obligation to try to only wound an attacker when fighting for his life NO; Can either party in a mutual combat claim self defense NO.

Wallace v. United States • Ð; 1896; 162 U.S. 466; 224
Is it up to the jury to decide whether a homicide is murder, manslaughter or justifiable YES; Does a perfect right of self defense require blamelessness in the confrontation and an act of necessity only YES; Can you claim self defense if you had intentionally brought about a lethal conflict NO; Is it up to the jury to decide whether you armed yourself defensively or otherwise YES; Is it murder if you enter a quarrel without felonious or malicious intent, and then, under reasonable belief of imminent mortal danger, you kill the assailant NO; Does the fact that you deliberately go and arm yourself, for self defense or other innocent purpose, turn a subsequent shooting necessarily from manslaughter to murder NO.