Quiet as it is kept, the firemen in New York did quite a bit of "looting" in the aftermath of 9/11...but they are still "heros."
~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Brent Wodehouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp? vnu_content_id=1001051261 > > 'Times-Picayune' Announces New Home - in Houma - and Reports Looting by > Cops and Firemen > > By E&P Staff > > Published: August 30, 2005 6:25 PM ET > > > NEW YORK The battered Times-Picayune of New Orleans, which evacuated its > downtown office this afternoon, posted a simple note to it staffers on its > Web site late this afternoon: "We are working at the Houma Courier for a > few days. If you have news, call 985-850-1182. We plan to set up a longer > term newsroom in Baton Rouge. Call the Advocate to find out where we are." > > Meanwhile, two staffers published a story on one of the Web site's blogs, > reporting on the looting in the city - joined in by cops and firemen who > had been called to the scene. > > Other reports, and TV footage, have shown brazen looting at many sites > around the city. One compared the current climate in the increasingly > desperate city to "Sodom and Gomorrah." > > One looter shot a local police officer, but Tuesday night word came that > the officer was expected to survive. > > At the Times-Picayune Web site, Mike Perlstein and Brian Thevenot wrote > that at a Wal-Mart on Tchoupitoulas Street, mass looting broke out after a > giveaway of supplies was announced at that location. While some did indeed > carry away food and essentials, others "cleared out jewelry racks and > carted out computers, TVs, and appliances on handtrucks. Some officers > joined in taking whatever they could, including one New Orleans cop who > loaded a shopping cart with a compact computer and a 27-inch flat screen > television. > > "Throughout the store and parking lot, looters pushed carts and loaded > trucks and vans alongside officers. One man said police directed him to > Wal-Mart from Robert's Grocery, where a similar scene was taking place. A > crowd in the electronics section said one officer broke the glass DVD case > so people wouldn't cut themselves. > > "The police got all the best stuff. They're crookeder than us," one man > said. Most officers, though, simply stood by powerless against the tide of > law breakers. > > One veteran officer said, "It's like this everywhere in the city. This > tiny number of cops can't do anything about this. It's wide open." > > Some groups, the reporters wrote, "organized themselves into assembly > lines to more efficiently cart off goods. Inside the store, one woman was > stocking up on make-up. She said she took comfort in watching police load > up their own carts. 'It must be legal,' she said. 'The police are here > taking stuff, too.'" > > > E&P Staff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Life without art & music? Keep the arts alive today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/FXrMlA/dnQLAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
