Posted on 09/06/2005 3:59:26 AM PDT by Budgie
http://www.infowars.com/articles/new_orleans/police_loot_walmart.htm
Many deserted before the storm even hit, so that defense should play real well, with the cops who stood fast anyway. It'd probably work just fine for the chief and Nagin.
What day was "SOUTHERN DECADENCE" to start?
100,000 SODOMITES to earn the city ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS income to the city !
AND NOBODY NOTICED!!!
EXCEPT GOD!
Same Video as posted here, just a different link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477692/posts
No doubt the guys with the big plasma TVs were stealing, but it's not clear that shoes from cheap shoe stores were part of that scene.
Some of the comments on this thread are absolutely disgusting and repulsive.
If these are indeed "official" NOPD, scorn and condemnation of them can be attributed, without "nuances" and overtones so typical of Aryan Nation Bots, but has anyone actually officially ID'd these in PD uniforms?
With 20% of the flood refugees not having shoes with them, I don't quite understand this concern with folks taking shoes from stores.
No doubt the guys with the big plasma TVs were stealing, but it's not clear that shoes from cheap shoe stores were part of that scene.
Now, think about it ~ if you can ~ what quality are the shoes you pick up at the Wal-Mart?
Or are they simply "cheap", almost throwaways?
Or maybe it's my error to think that you even know about Wal-Mart, or even Winn-Dixie. So, shifting the tone here a little bit to meet your standards, let me point out that if you wealthy elitists ever shopped at a Wal-Mart you'd not have bothered posting your notes ~ these officers were gathering shoes for use by people who had no shoes, and all you're proving is that no good turn goes unstoned.
Are you an idiot? Or troll???
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These guys went right by digital cameras by the caseload to pick up cheap shoes.
You forgot to put a sarcasm tag on your post.
Certainly since the store had power, their security cameras have captured everything on video.
Wonder if the security system kept a log of what items were stolen (you know the anti-theft tag alarms).
Think anyone thought to steal one of those devices used to remove the clamp from clothing?
If the cops were boosting shoes for the use of displaced persons with none, I would have no problem with that. But they would have a responsibility to show that is what they were doing. By the looks of it, they were just helping themselves.
The flood hit many folks so fast they didn't have time to find their shoes.
No doubt you and I would have volunteered to commandeer unused cheap tennis shoes under the circumstance wouldn't we? Or, would you let those people go shoeless?
Bet the other posters I've identified would.
The video belies the theory police were getting shoes for hurricane victims. A reporter asks what police are doing. The response from an officer is 'looking for looters' (as patrons and officers wheel shopping carts full of goodies behind her). The officer never mentions getting shoes for the hurricane victims. In fact, the response to the question is rather nonplussed.
The police woman being interviewed was never point blank asked what they were loading items into a shopping cart for.
Her excuse as to "what she was doing" was that she was "stopping the looters" although there was no footage of her apprehending or even confronting anyone (except the reporter, who she said something like 'so are you, you're here' to which he responded, "I haven't taken anything").
If they believed they were in a position to distribute such items, they should not have had a problem going on record to state what they were doing.
When people see cops behaving in an illegal manner (that includes wearing a uniform and working "security" at an illegal after hours club or even using cocaine), they know that they won't be prosecuted for engaging in the same behavior there.
All you get from voting in good government is a fair playing field, which still requires you to work hard to succeed. Vote in characters like this, on the other hand, and maybe you will get a chance to share in the loot. ;)
So the cop, who undoubtedly had lost his home and all his possessions in the flood gave a snotty reporter a sarcastic answer ~ the reporter is fortunate he was not arrested and hogtied for interfering with whatever it was the cops were doing.
You have a good point about some needed shoes. However, Watching the video, the Reporter asks the Police Officer, what are you doing? She said, she was doing her job. He said, taking shoes, she said NO, looking for looters. So if they were collecting shoes for people why didn't the Police Officer state that?
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