{"id":2351,"date":"2005-09-05T03:24:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T10:24:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-09-05T03:24:39","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T10:24:39","slug":"armed-police-take-over-hotel-eject-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/05\/armed-police-take-over-hotel-eject-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed ‘Police’ Take Over Hotel, Eject Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an Associated Press report:<\/a>

Police came through commandeering drivable vehicles and siphoning gas. Officials took over a hotel and ejected the guests. <\/p>\n

An officer pumped his shotgun at a group trying to return to their hotel on Chartres Street. <\/p>\n

“This is our block,” he said, pointing the gun down a side street. “Go that way.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

WWL-TV 4 of New Orleans showed a video of the confrontation. The “police” seemed official but didn’t show badges.<\/p>\n

Some better news from this report:<\/p>\n

In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming “tribes” and dividing up the labor.<\/p>\n

As some went down to the river to do the wash, others remained behind to protect property. In a bar, a bartender put near-perfect stitches into the torn ear of a robbery victim. <\/p>\n

While mold and contagion grew in the muck that engulfed most of the city, something else sprouted in this most decadent of American neighborhoods – humanity. <\/p>\n

“Some people became animals,” Vasilioas Tryphonas said Sunday morning as he sipped a hot beer in Johnny White’s Sports Bar on Bourbon Street. “We became more civilized.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Tired of waiting for trucks to come with food and water, residents turned to each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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