New Orleans Mayor Issues 'Desperate SOS'
The day civility died...
Storm victims were raped and beaten, fights and fires broke out, corpses lay out in the open, and rescue helicopters and law enforcement officers were shot at as flooded-out New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday. "This is a desperate SOS," the mayor said.
Anger mounted across the ruined city, with thousands of storm victims increasingly hungry, desperate and tired of waiting for buses to take them out.
"We are out here like pure animals. We don't have help," the Rev. Issac Clark, 68, said outside the New Orleans Convention Center, where corpses lay in the open and the and other evacuees complained that they were dropped off and given nothing _ no food, no water, no medicine.
About 15,000 to 20,000 people who had taken shelter at the convention center to await buses grew increasingly hostile. Police Chief Eddie Compass said he sent in 88 officers to quell the situation at the building, but they were quickly beaten back by an angry mob.
It's hard to believe with all of this going on there are people who are worried about where the Saints will play this year.
posted by Pat Campbell @ 7:04 PM
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What is the chain of command in a city crisis? Does it start at the city then state and then federal govt.? I know this is a monumental task, but I saw on TV a FEMA dir. saying that they received a call today for assistance w/ food and water at the convention center!?!? Today (Thursday). I know that we don't see all the news from there but when the hurricanes hit here Gov. Bush was on TV at least a couple of times a day with updates and reports. Is that going on or at least being broadcast over the airwaves? It just seems like all want to blame the federal govt...vis-a-vis Pres. Bush and yet it seems like there is not much being coordinated on the local level. Of course its hard to manage in a vacuum and we all need to pray and preach patience.
That's right bdkbbc: Our guv was on TV several times a day - and locally so was our county and city mayors, city police chief and Sheriff Berry. Whom you might recall - that every time he stepped to the mic he stated bolding and sincerely that looting would not be tolerated. And the very few instances that did occur were dealt with harshly.
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