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Originally posted by techweenie
Here's another story from a couple of people attending a convention when Katrina hit, plus some corrobaration:
"...the police commander came across the street to address our group. He told us he had a solution: we should walk to the Pontchartrain Expressway and cross the greater New Orleans Bridge where the police had buses lined up to take us out of the city. The crowed cheered and began to move. We called everyone back and explained to the commander that there had been lots of misinformation and wrong information and was he sure that there were buses waiting for us. The commander turned to the crowd and stated emphatically, “I swear to you that the buses are there.”
We organized ourselves and the 200 of us set off for the bridge with great excitement and hope...
As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing their weapons over our heads. This sent the crowd fleeing in various directions...”
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This story smells like it's a lie. Consider:
Of these 200 people, none of them bothered to get the name of the police commander who lied about the buses? The writer is not willing to state the name of this commander?
If the Gretna sheriff's officers were actually "firing their weapons" over the heads of this crowd and others who were trying to cross the bridge on foot, why is it the case that no media source has bothered to capture this on video???
Do you know what sort of ratings such footage would bring to a primetime news broadcast? Would a reporter like Geraldo
not try to get video of this?
Who are the supposed authors of this story, "Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky"? If they were visiting a paramedic's conference in New Orleans, they must be home by now. What are their addresses? Has any reporter tracked them down to get their story first hand? What about the rest of this crowd that was fired upon? Has any of them been interviewed?
Where was this story first published/posted?
I'll need a lot more verifiable details before I'll believe that the story is true.