Glover’s brother and a good Samaritan took the bleeding man to a nearby school in their car, but rather than helping the gunshot victim, the U.S. According to one indictment, in the chaotic days following the flooding, police officer David Warren shot an African American man, Henry Glover, because he might have been picking up some stolen goods. Thompson’s work documented - and subsequent federal indictments charged - authorities again crossed far over the line. Estimates of those killed by the authorities run as high as 500, but actual numbers will never be known because the bodies of the killed were thrown into the flames and the bay.ĭuring Hurricane Katrina, as investigative journalist A.C. A man trying to rescue someone trapped in the rubble was shot dead after being mistaken for a looter. A bank cashier was shot trying to open his own bank’s safe. One man was bayoneted by a soldier after taking supplies at the invitation of the proprietor of a grocery doomed to burn. Army marched in and imposed its own version of order. In San Francisco in 1906, the police behaved pretty well, but then the U.S. As one captain put it to his officers at a morning roll call captured on videotape, “We have authority by martial law to shoot looters.” You may want to dismiss this as the quaint barbarism of another age, but a scathing new report by the nonprofit investigative news organization ProPublica, PBS’ ” Frontline” and New Orleans’ Times-Picayune newspaper documents that five years ago, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans police officers were explicitly told that they could fire on thieves. On the morning of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the city’s previously progressive mayor issued a proclamation, printed up as a broadside and plastered throughout the city, authorizing law enforcers to “shoot to kill” looters. But what about your mayor and police chief? Will they, when the inevitable big earthquake hits Los Angeles or San Francisco, sometime in the next few decades declare open season on thieves? Do you support the death penalty for minor thefts? Of course not.
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