My wife was watching the news just now..

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and I am work and just spoke to her and she said she saw a NOLA police officer being interviewed and he was crying and wanted to tell his family that he loved them because he didn't think he was going to make it...I am guessing because of being shot at???

Anyone else see that? Jesus, what is going on??????

[Kenroy]

1. I saw it

I didn't get the impression he was afraid of dying. I think he was overwhelmed by what he was seeing. But that's just my impression. You may be right.

[pointblank]

3. Like I said, I didn't see it....

the way she put it, he verbally said that he didn't think he would make it...

[Kenroy]

6. It's possible

maybe I just missed that part. But it was very touching, whatever his reason.

[Lindsay]

2. For one thing, those police folk have been working

pretty much non-stop since Sunday.

We're starting to hear from many sources that reports of violence have been way exaggerated, but I wouldn't be surprised if what genuine hoodlums have stuck around are targeting the police just because they can.

[pointblank]

5. I am sorry to say..

I agree with you. A lot of people hate the police, and maybe they are taking advantage of this opportunity to exact some sort of revenge...Sick I know, but some people ARE sick.

[Greybnk48]

4. I saw it last night

I thought he was just overwhelmed by what he's seen, although it was tacked on to a story about the police being shot at.

on edit: They showed an interview with another policeman and the reporter and cop were shot at during the interview. A congressman (I believe) was interviewed yesterday and he said that the local drug addicts have not have a fix in days and are going wild along with a group of thugs. The congressman was African American and made a good point about this. The group of people causing trouble are types found in any city. The sick (drug addicts) and the sociopaths are running wild. This would happen anywhere by people of any color.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. He's NOT afraid of getting shot

He's afraid of what is coming next. Airborne and waterborne infectious diseases. This is why no is being allowed in or out of NO anymore. The whole looting, shotting meme is over hyped bullshit, so that the Bushbots can blame the victims when the worse happens.

[pointblank]

8. Maybe that was the impression she got...

becasue of the story being lumped in with the police being shot at story, as another poster pointed out.

I'd be afraid too...I heard that NOLA police are quitting in droves.

[XanaDUer]

11. I saw a quick spot earlier that a lady said her baby had

measles. Did anyone else see this?

she was blond and said that the only thing her baby had were the shoes on his feet.

[KharmaTrain]

9. The Total Disolving Of Civil Order

Many NOLA cops decided to walk off the beat in recent days...some, they claim, joined in on the looting and made bad things worse.

One cop waived his badge at the camera and yelled that "this is what you swore an oath to"...to the others who had walked away.

Inversely, there was a cop who did "quit", saying he had no station to report to, no command and control and was a sitting duck from snipers.

How can you square any of this?

[Greylyn58]

10. I don't know whether it has been mentioned

in all the threads talking about the violence happening in NO, but it occurs to me that while there is a criminal element in what is happening(there always is in most large cities), that some of the violence is being perpetrated my people who have lost their minds. They have been pushed to their limits by the events happening around them and their minds have finally snapped.

They are shell-shocked, hungry, thirsty and desperate and some may have just totally lost it.

Most of the people we've seen are hungry, thirsty, tired, and angry(and rightly so), but they have behaved with dignity considering how desperate things are for them. I only hope if I were to ever go through anything close to this I could remain so.

I've only experience one hurricane in my life. It was when Hurricane Hugo ripped into Charlotte in 1989 after it tore through Charleston. Not something I would like to go through again. It was the most incredibly surreal experience and we didn't have the flooding mixed in.

The remaining people of NO need to be removed immediately and treated with as much help and kindness as we can give them. They are afterall our fellow citizens and this should never have been allowed to happen to them.

[lonestarnot]

12. Somewhat like innocent Iraqis whose homes were destroyed for lies,

only their plight was not an act of God.