Hurricane Katrina 2005
Sept. 1, Mayor Ray Nagin called the entire police force off of rescue work and ordered it to secure the city.
>An estimated 200 officers just walked off the job.
"it’s every man for himself.”
Sept. 1, Mayor Ray Nagin called the entire police force off of rescue work and ordered it to secure the city.
>An estimated 200 officers just walked off the job.
"it’s every man for himself.”
Civilization is a fragile thing
A group of about 30 British students at the Superdome:
“All us girls sat in the middle while the boys sat on the outside, with chairs as protection”
“was like something out of Lord of the Flies,” with “people shouting racial abuse about us being white.”
“All us girls sat in the middle while the boys sat on the outside, with chairs as protection”
“was like something out of Lord of the Flies,” with “people shouting racial abuse about us being white.”
Young men robbed and raped with impunity. Occasional gunshots panicked the crowd. At least one man committed suicide by throwing himself off a high deck and splattering onto the playing field. Bodies of the murdered, and of infants and the elderly who died of heat exhaustion...
Crack addicts–who had brought their most valuable possession with them–smoked openly and fought over drugs.
Sitting with her daughter and other relatives, Trolkyn Joseph, 37, told a reporter that men had wandered the center at night raping and murdering children. She said she found a dead 14-year old girl at 5 a.m. on Friday morning, four hours after the girl went missing.
Hurricane Katrina 2005:
Highway 10, hundreds of volunteer firefighters, auxiliary coastguardmsmen and citizens with small boats were eager to reach people, but could not set out because of sniper fire.
"We are trying to do our job here but we can’t if they are shooting at us”
Highway 10, hundreds of volunteer firefighters, auxiliary coastguardmsmen and citizens with small boats were eager to reach people, but could not set out because of sniper fire.
"We are trying to do our job here but we can’t if they are shooting at us”
Just outside New Orleans, gunmen held up a supply truck carrying food, water, and medical supplies that were on their way tho a 203-bed hospital. Patients all across the city eventually had to be taken out, but rescuers met resistance
“Hospitals are trying to evacuate. At every one of them, there are reports that as the helicopters come in people are shooting at them, saying, ‘You better come get my family.’”
“This is a nuthouse,” said April Thomas, 42, who fled to the dome with her 11 children. She has enlisted the older boys to take turns walking patrols at night as the rest of the family sleeps.
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“You have to fend people off constantly,” she said. “You have to fight for your life. I wake up in the morning, and the first thing I say is: ‘Where are my babies? Is everyone here?"
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