Katrina Coverage

The NYT article "Police in Suburbs Blocked Evacuees, Witnesses Report" discusses the strange incidents on the Crescent City Connection, over which evacuees from New Orleans tried to get to promised safety in Gretna. See Gretna Police "trapped survivors in New Orleans" for the more trustworthy UPI version of events, and see "Building communism under the […]

There's a video of Geraldo Rivera and Shepard Smith begging the local (and perhaps state) authorities to let people get out of New Orleans over the Crescent City Connection. The shoot date is Sep. 2, and it appears both were near the Connection.
Geraldo refers to the Interstate and a WalMart on the other side of […]

The post Gretna Police "trapped survivors in New Orleans" discussed the activities involving the police chief of that town, Arthur Lawson.
This probably has nothing to do with the bridge incident, but this reprinted 2000 AP article (cached here), presumably titled "Sheriff opens video casino", discusses several Louisiana sheriffs who own various ventures:
GRETNA, La. Sat May […]

As previously discussed, Gretna Police "trapped survivors in New Orleans". That post contains the following from UPI:
[Chief of the City of Gretna Police Department Arthur Lawson] said that once the storm itself had passed Monday, police from Gretna City, Jefferson Parrish and the Louisiana State Crescent City Connection Police Department closed to foot traffic the […]

From "Cops trapped survivors in New Orleans":
Police from surrounding jurisdictions shut down several access points to one of the only ways out of New Orleans last week, effectively trapping victims of Hurricane Katrina in the flooded and devastated city…
"We shut down the bridge," Arthur Lawson, chief of the City of Gretna Police Department, confirmed to […]