Friday, September 09, 2005
It's official: WashTimes confirms that cops prevented storm survivors from leaving
Once the right-wing press admits the existence of a story, it has legs.
Cops trapped survivors in New Orleans
Police from surrounding jurisdictions shut down several access points to one of the only ways out of New Orleans last week, effectively trapping victims of Hurricane Katrina in the flooded and devastated city.
An eyewitness account from two San Francisco paramedics posted on an internet site for Emergency Medical Services specialists says, "Thousands of New Orleaners were prevented and prohibited from self-evacuating the city on foot."
"We shut down the bridge," Arthur Lawson, chief of the City of Gretna Police Department, confirmed to United Press International...
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Charles @ 9/09/2005 08:35:00 PM
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