Katrina Coverage

Two California Highway Patrol officers from NoCal are going to be fired for shooting one or more alligators while "helping out" in Louisiana. There's no word on whether they're going to claim they fired in self-defense. In any case, the major issue seems to be that they shot their service weapons without reporting it.

From this:
An internal investigation within the Baton Rouge Police Department triggered by complaints from out-of-state law enforcement agencies that helped with storm detail has concluded that city officers did not break the law, police say.
But violations of department policies and procedures were found, authorities said Monday.
During a news conference, Police Chief Jeff LeDuff would not […]

Let me summarize "After Blocking the Bridge, Gretna Circles the Wagons":
Gretna passed a resolution supporting the decision to block the bridge…
Gretna is 2/3 white, blue-collar, and has had an occasionally troubled relationship with NO…
They helped bus 5000 NOers out, but then the strain got too much…
… After someone set the local mall on fire Aug. […]

CNN offers their take in "Racism, resources blamed for bridge incident". It doesn't appear to be original reporting so much as a compilation of what was said on various CNN shows including Anderson Cooper and Aaron Brown.
Gretna police chief Arthur Lawson says that Gretna was locked down, and had no resources to take care of […]

This one was posted on Sep. 8 and is called "Surviving hurricane no vacation for tourist":
On Aug. 30, the group tried to rent a bus, but the plan fizzled.
"We heard FEMA confiscated the buses for their own use," he said.
The streets were becoming more dangerous, with looters roaming around. "We could hear gunshots in the […]

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 […]