Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Cops Sealed Bridge in Wake of Katrina
The AP reports that police in Gretna, Louisiana, sealed a bridge which would have allowed many people to flee from New Orleans.
Obviously, President Bush is at fault for this development.
Cops trapped survivors in New Orleans
I think that President Bush should apologize for this, too. But, where was Shepherd Smith screaming, "Where are the cops? Where are the cops? Where are the cops?"
The AP reports that police in Gretna, Louisiana, sealed a bridge which would have allowed many people to flee from New Orleans.
Obviously, President Bush is at fault for this development.
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, adding that his jurisdiction had been "a closed and secure location" since before the storm hit.
"All our people had evacuated and we locked the city down," he said.
The bridge in question -- the Crescent City Connection -- is the major artery heading west out of New Orleans across the Mississippi River.
I think that President Bush should apologize for this, too. But, where was Shepherd Smith screaming, "Where are the cops? Where are the cops? Where are the cops?"
