Thursday, September 01, 2005
Next Week?
From CNN Online:
Widespread looting and random gunfire have been reported across New Orleans. Police told CNN that groups of armed men roamed the streets overnight.
Officers told CNN they lacked manpower and steady communications to properly do their jobs -- and that they needed help to prevent the widespread looting and violence now prevalent in the city.
Officers told CNN they lacked manpower and steady communications to properly do their jobs -- and that they needed help to prevent the widespread looting and violence now prevalent in the city.
A police officer working in downtown New Orleans said police were siphoning gas from abandoned vehicles in an effort to keep their squad cars running, CNN's Chris Lawrence reported.
The officer said police are "on their own" for food and water, scrounging up what they can from anybody who is generous enough to give them some -- and that they have no communication whatsoever. Police also told CNN they were removing ammunition from looted gunshops in an effort to get it off the streets.
The Pentagon said that by next week 24,000 troops would be on the ground to assist in recovery efforts, including 8,600 National Guard members by Friday who could be put to work in law enforcement.
Is it just me or shouldn't this been a step to take last Friday when we all knew the hurricane was going to hit??? Why isn't the government responding? Why is Condi in NYC buying thousand dollar shoes? Where are the democrats? They should be calling to arms right now! I am beginning to think that no one in Washington really cares. There are people trapped and dying, starving like a third world country. We will remember this in 06.
# posted by J.F.Tobias @ 11:34 AM 
