Serve and protect?....not so much in SHTF. Cops who became the problem in NOLA Katrina chaos.
http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-gov ... i_15508159

More cops charged in post-Katrina bridge shootings

By Michael Kunzelman

Associated Press
Posted: 07/13/2010 06:23:47 PM PDT
Updated: 07/13/2010 06:23:50 PM PDT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a case that rocked a city already torn by the horrors of Hurricane Katrina, four police officers accused of gunning down two unarmed people in the storm's chaotic aftermath could face death themselves.

The officers who could face the death penalty were charged along with two others in a 27-count indictment unsealed Tuesday. Five former New Orleans police officers already have pleaded guilty to helping cover up the shootings on the Danziger Bridge that left two men dead and four wounded just days after the August 2005 hurricane. In one instance, a mentally disabled man was shot in the back and stomped before he died.

Prosecutors say officers fabricated witness statements, falsified reports and planted a gun in an attempt to make it appear the shootings were justified. It was a shocking example of the violence and confusion that followed the storm.

With 80 percent of New Orleans underwater, officers from a department with a history of corruption were forced to battle rampant crime, and some became criminals themselves. Dozens of officers were fired or suspended for abandoning their post. In an separate case, an officer is charged with shooting a man whose body turned up in a burned out car.

The latest indictments also have come shortly after the city's new mayor replaced its former police chief and invited a Justice Department team to overhaul the city's corruption-plagued police department, which already
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is the target of several federal investigations separate from the bridge shooting.

In the bridge shooting case, seven officers were charged with murder or attempted murder in December 2006 but a state judge threw out all the charges in August 2008. Federal authorities then stepped in a month later to launch their own investigation.

I was in Louisianna after Katrina and what a mess it was. People saw the video of cops looting Wally World saying "I got to do for mines" or something like that. Or the video of cops crushing an old lady down for having an unloaded revolver. SO, if the laws say that poice can't disarm you, and they come and try to because "its an emergency"; what do you do.Just askin.
The bigger leson was that the people down there knew that the disaster was local to their region yet they still acted as if the whole world went to crap. Shows what would probably happen in a larger shtf scenario.
As I said, I was there as a National Guard member. We were given 1 mag with 20 rounds that was not to be loaded unless something was going on....Real deterent there...
The second thing was that the first military units on site in the region weren't the national guards. It was federal troops. Marines and the 82nd if I remember correctly. What happened to Posse Comitatus????

Well I know how I will respond. I will be shy a few rounds of various kinds of ammo.

I have a family to protect And I can do a better job they can.

FireStorm

I know this is an older topic, but this furthers my view that the National Guard should be exactly what the name implies, a domestic defensive force, rather than a federal resource pool for foriegn conflicts. While I'm making out my wish list, why not add neutering the 1903 militia act, thereby keeping under the full time control of the States.

The Gun Community has a "Saying": "When It Is LIFE AND DEATH, and Seconds Count, Law Enforcement is Only An Hour (Or So) Away".

A Word, To The Wise, Should Be Sufficient".