Noddy24 wrote:I remember PBS before the storm hit mentioning the buses and with on-the-spot recordings of people who planned to sit tight.
Today I read in the NYT's coverage that New Orleans didn't have the police power to enforce evacuation. They could go up and down the street with loud hailers, but they couldn't go door to door and they couldn't force people on the buses.
I saw the part about the police going up and down the streets with loud speakers telling people to evacuate, but I still have yet to see anything about buses.
Mamma Angel - Police kill at least 5 shooters in New Orleans
Mamma Angel, please note that since the New Orleans police shot and killed or wounded these five thugs, the shooting that had frightened people has ended. It is possible that these five hoodlums were the only ones among those many thousands of people who were terrorizing everyone. Shame on anyone who tried to label those thousands of people as behaving badly. It was only a rotten handful of thugs. --- BBB
Police kill at least 5 in New Orleans
Gunmen open fire on contractors; no workers reported killed
MSNBC Updated: 7:47 p.m. ET Sept. 4, 2005
NEW ORLEANS
Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said.
Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six.
Fourteen contractors were traveling across the Danziger Bridge under police escort when they came under fire, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers.
They were on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to help plug the breech in the 17th Street Canal, Hall said.
None of the contractors was injured, Mike Rogers, a disaster relief coordinator with the Army Corps of Engineers, told reporters in Baton Rouge.
The bridge spans a canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River.
No other details were immediately available.
