OK, this is getting really bad.

[unixronin]

interdictor reports that New Orleans police have been joining the looters, and the remaining honest cops are holed up under siege in their precincts and taking automatic-weapons fire.

The Big Easy is falling apart ... what's left of it.

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Update:

Confirmation from the Times-Picayune, with photos, here.  This PDF page has a front-page photo of uniformed New Orleans cops leaving Wal-Mart with an armful of DVDs and what looks like maybe a copy of Windows XP.

This is despicable.  To say "We don't have the power to stop it" is one thing.  But to JOIN THE LOOTERS?!?

Comments

[dr-nebula.livejournal.com]

I know if I was in NO right now - I'd be forming up neighborhood militia to halt the insanity at least on a local level.

I despise looters - esp. when they put hospitals under seige (go read some other posts).

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

You and me both.

(Lemme guess ..... they're after the drugs?)

[dr-nebula.livejournal.com]

Most likely. To threaten staff and patients is beyond redemption.

Now those bastards I wouldn't hesistate air conditioning their drug-crazed brain pans.