Guardsmen 'played cards' amid New Orleans chaos

[steve2470]

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=348160

Oh boy, now Japan is really going to respect us :sarcasm:

Guardsmen 'played cards' amid New Orleans chaos



Sunday, September 4, 2005 at 07:32 JST
NEW ORLEANS — A top New Orleans police officer said Saturday that National Guard troops sat around playing cards while people died in the stricken city after Hurricane Katrina.

New Orleans deputy police commander W.S. Riley launched a bitter attack on the federal response to the disaster though he praised the way the evacuation was eventually handled.


His remarks fueled controversy over the government's handling of events during five days when New Orleans succumbed to lawlessness after Katrina swamped the city's flood defenses.

The National Guard commander, Lt Gen Steven Blum, said the reservist force was slow to move troops into New Orleans because it did not anticipate the collapse of the city's police force

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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Yeah.. there heave been reports of people just standing around

because they have no orders.. they can't act without them.

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[undergroundpanther]

2. Well once a dumb self centered cop

always a dumb self centered cop ,,and there are plenty of pigs hiding behind the blue wall alongside the decent cops,The decent cops often go unnoticed while the pigs get respect when they deserve NONE.