Reply #18: And from the other side of the "tracks"...

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Reports from http://polimom.blogspot.com (a blog for residents of affluent Algiers Point):

9/1 @ 7:44 PM -- "So far, the dead are all looters." {looters or just people someone thought were looters?}

9/2 @ 5:59 AM -- "The night was quiet on the point…"

9/2 @ 9:52 AM -- "The looting on AP {Algiers Point} seems to be confined to businesses/commercial building…"

9/2 @ 7:37 PM -- Comment added by Debbie "My husband and a small band of neighbors stayed and have been patrolling Lower Coast on horseback, armed with guns. On Wed, police took them to Breaux Mart and allowed them to take food, water and supplies…."

9/2 @ 9:31 PM -- "…The reality is that the looters on the West Bank are from… well… the West Bank."

9/3 @ 7:56 AM -- "The folks…say that someone was prowling around the block last night. They know because they scattered some aluminum cans about as an alert system…. Whoever it was said, "Don’t Shoot," and took off…"

9/3 @ 12:38 PM – "We can't fire a warning shot - shooting will bring armed residents from all around the area immediately. I feel really sorry for looters who try to come in here."

Nola.com Nola View, Friday, September 02, 2005, "Trapped in Algiers" 4:47 PM by "…Looters walk his neighborhood everynight with flashlights looking for unoccupied homes"

Were those "looters with flashlights" actually vigilante "patrols"? What about the person that was "prowling around the block last night"?

The silence on the criminal behavior of vigilantes needs to be broken!

Are vigilante murders going to be investigated? What do public officials have to say on the subject?

We’ve heard plenty of tough talk about using lethal force to stop looting. What about efforts (lethal or not) to stop vigilantism?


Here's what I sent to CNN on the subject: Rampant rumors and paranoid vigilantes