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To: Suma who wrote (41200)	9/11/2005 9:45:15 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Gretna's Choice By Pascal Riche My advice for the Congressional commission which will investigate into how the Hurricane Katrina disaster was handled in New Orleans: don’t forget to pay a visit to the Chief of the Police of the city of Gretna, across the Mississippi river bridge. When we left New Orleans, on Friday September 2, after having discovered -as reporters- the horrors of the Convention Center, we picked up a couple who wanted to flee the town. They told us that they had already tried to evacuate on foot, but some policemen forced them to turn back on the bridge. "It's like a jail, here", they said. I found this information unbelievable. Since then, other eyewitness accounts confirmed that police officers sealed this bridge, close to the Center Convention, prohibiting people from escaping the New Orleans trap. See Denise Moore’s story , for instance. Or you can read this account from two San Francisco paramedics, Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky: sheriffs even fired their weapons over their heads to dissuade the crowd from going ahead. The police explained that they wanted “no Superdomes in their city". On Sunday (4 September), New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was interviewed on a special edition of ABC's Nightline. He explained that when people tried to cross the bridge, they “were met (at the county line) with attack dogs and police officers with machine guns saying ‘You have to turn back...’.” Gretna, in Jefferson Parish, is a mainly white suburban town of 18,000 inhabitants. In the aftermath of Katrina, three quarters of the inhabitants still had electricity and running water. The Gretna Police Chief Arthur Lawson admitted that he gave the order to block the bridge, explaining that there was "no food, no water, no shelter" in his nice town. “If we had opened the bridge, he said, our city would have looked like New Orleans does now: looted, burned and pillaged.” Property over life? tpmcafe.com I hope the media keeps on this story, that town has a lot to answer for. Reminds me of the final Seinfeld episode where they all got arrested for failing to help someone when they had the chance.