[lbo-talk] Rogue N.O. cops

[Max Sawicky]

>From a N.O. blogger, hanging on by his fingernails:

 

 

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

 

. . . The Iberville Housing Projects got pissed off because the police
started to "shop" after they kicked out looters. Then they started
shooting at cops. When the cops left, the looters looted everything.
There's probably not a grocery left in this city.

 

 

. . . The police are looting. This has been confirmed by several
independent sources. Some of the looting might be "legitimate" in as
much as that word has any meaning in this context. They have broken into
ATMs and safes: confirmed. We have eyewitnesses to this. They have taken
dozens of SUVs from dealerships ostensibly for official use. They have
also looted gun stores and pawn shops for all the small arms, supposedly
to prevent "criminals" from doing so. But who knows their true
intentions. We have an inside source in the NOPD who says that command
and control is in chaos. He reports that command lapses more than 24
hours between check-ins, and that most of the force are "like deer in
the headlights." NOPD already had a reputation for corruption, but I am
telling you now that the people we've been talking to say they are not
recognizing the NOPD as a legitimate authority anymore, since cops have
been seen looting in Walmarts and forcing people out of stores so they
could back up SUVs and loot them. Don't shoot the messenger....

 

 

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