Police shoots 5 armed looters that ambushed Rescue team

by Gerard 19 Replies latest jw friends

• 

  Gerard

  
  Sometimes violence is granted in order to stop violence. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said.

  Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six.

  Fourteen contractors were traveling across the Danziger Bridge under police escort when they came under fire, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers.

  They were on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to help plug the breech in the 17th Street Canal, Hall said.

  None of the contractors was injured, Mike Rogers, a disaster relief coordinator with the Army Corps of Engineers, told reporters in Baton Rouge.

  The bridge spans a canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River.

  Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said the shootings took place on the Danziger Bridge, which connects Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River.

  No other details were immediately available.
• 

  BrendaCloutier

  I heard that on the news last night. Good. You shoot inappropriately, expect to get shot.
• 

  Ellie

  Im glad the police shot them but just wait a few days and they will be condemned I'm sure.
• 

  confusedjw

  Right on this site
• 

  juni

  I had heard on CNN Mon. am that I believe 1 was shot dead and the others were shot, but taken to hospitals and then they'll deal with them. They got exactly what they deserved.

  Sounds like some are being reunited w/family members and taken into church members' homes. And I heard that Texas can take no more people. So many have helped out. And these people are worthy of death at Armageddon according to JW if they don't become believers? I find it hard to swallow. Juni Breeze
• 

  upside/down

  Bout frickin time...

  "All that's necessary for evil to triumph...is for good men to do nothing"

  u/d
• 

  lonelysheep

  Good.
• 

  TonyT

  
  
  More innocent victims of the trigger happy police.
  

  
  
  
  

  
  
  Rather than condemning these people we should try to understand how society failed them, forcing them to engage in antisocial behavior such as firing at rescue workers.
• 

  confusedjw

  No go further. Figure how how those in charge of Society were failed by their parents so that they failed Society and Society failed these poor folks so that they needed to shoot at Rescue workers.
• 

  juni

  For you bleeding hearts - poor, poor people just had to shoot at police because they've had a hard time of it. PUKE Cry me a river!!!! What happened to social responsibility? They're criminals that need to be dealt with. Atleast the police wounded them in a way they could go to the hospital.

  How many of us have had s***** upbringings, but don't go out and shoot and loot? I bet you wouldn't feel the same if you were looking down the gun barrel of a criminal or witness an horrific crime.

  I have no idea what color the skin of these people - doesn't matter to me if they were green. There has to be law and order or anarchy exists which takes away the basic human right to exist peacefully on this planet.

  And that's my 2 cents worth to some crazy, stupid comments. Juni Breeze