I just posted about this in the new thread called Eyewitness: police would not let us leave NOLA. The EMT in question was featured on NPRs "This
American Life" and told the same story. Chilling. Time for tin hats indeed!
Originally posted by Valhall
I'm sorry, but why the hell is everybody falling out over a bunch of visitors hold up in the dry-lands of the French Quarter?
For christ's sake pull your heads out. Half of this article has been previously attributed to Europeans... do you not check anything?
Let's pretend it was real. Let's pretend some disfortunate folks visiting NO got put out and a little hungry in the French Quarter.
Heads up! do a little bit of farking research
Originally posted by Valhall
Is the "W Hotel" considered in the French Quarter?
W French Quarter
316 Chartres Street• New Orleans, LA 70130
Durso and Trampus had been trying to leave the stricken city since the rains and winds died. They bought tickets on a bus arranged by their hotel to flee Wednesday, only to see it commandeered by police, said Gray.
Durso told the Associated Press that they'd asked a police officer for assistance and his response was, " 'Go to hell -- it's every man for himself.' "
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They trudged for blocks to walk over a bridge, but officers wouldn't let them cross — and fired a few warning shots over their heads to convince them.
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"I grew up in an upper-middle class family. Street life is foreign to me,'' said Larry Mitzel, 53, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. "I'm not sure I'm going to get out of here alive.''
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"We're appalled,'' said Jill Johnson, 53, of Saskatoon.
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They were turned back when another group trying to cross began to threaten the officers, said Whit Herndon, 32, of Jonesboro, Ark.
And when exhausted hurricane victims set up temporary shelters on the highway, Gretna police came back a few hours later, fired shots into the air again, told people to "get the f -- off the bridge" and used a helicopter to blow down all the makeshift shelters, the paramedics said.
When the officers had pushed the crowd back far enough, one of them took the group's food and water, dropped it in the trunk of a patrol car and drove away.
Gretna Police Chief Arthur Lawson confirmed that his officers were under his orders to seal off the suburban city of 17,500 residents.
sfgate.com.../c/a/2005/09/09/BAGL1EL1KH1.DTL