If you read more of his diary, you would see he also has been talking to other police trying to make the best of the situation. -- mbs
WS:
It strikes me as making the same type of blanket prejudice based on the status of the involved person as some of the media stories showing black people "looting" and white people "retrieving goods."
Undoubtedly, there are corrupt cops in NO - is not it what NO is known for? - but it is also good police work to retrieve weapons and ammunition or cash in the situation of total lawlessness. The cops observed doing that may be doing good police work or looting, or perhaps some of each, but the casual observer has no way of knowing which. He/she makes a blanket judgment based on his/her own prejudices - just as the media people do.
Have the common sense and critical judgment went south altogether on this list?
Wojtek
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