New Orleans cops loot WalMart

[SmallIsPower]

A video of a reporter interviewing looters after Katrina, including a looting New Orleans cop, who accuses the reporter of looting!

[bascule]

Very, very old...

[SmallIsPower]

I realise that, but I asked a bunch of local activists if they'd heard of it, they said no, and given the egregious and bizzare nature of the crime, I felt it was worth posting.

 

Here is something new, the cops were cleared by their department, while

others got 15 years for looting a grocery market.

[Pangloss]

It was quite a big story at the time, and it had some interesting and unexpected ramifications. I seem to recall at one point Wal-Mart (and perhaps Home Depot and some others) announcing that all local law enforcement were given carte blache to use whatever resources they could find in their half-destroyed stores, essentially exonerating them from any further charges of looting, as well as protecting their stores from further damage in the process by ensuring police presence in the area. I believe one department even based itself out of a local Wal-Mart during the aftermath crisis.

 

I'm curious as to why would this be significant to "a bunch of local activists"? Was it considered ammunition of some sort, and if so, for what purpose?

[Martin]

... I felt it was worth posting.

 

Here is something new' date=' the cops were cleared by their department, while

others got 15 years for looting a grocery market.

 

I hadn't seen it and was interested. thanks for the posting.

[Nevermore]

Wow, totally NSFW link. Read those user comments.