Posted by Jill Tubman, Jack & Jill Politics at 11:17 AM on December 19, 2008.
Armed whites targeted innocent black victims fleeing from the storm’s aftermath.
The worst thing about this is that when some people were interviewed involved with shooting "blacks" seemed proud of what they did and speaking as if the men they shot were not men at all. Didn't seem to matter to them that the men they shot at were their neighbors.
After the storm, White vigilantes roamed Algiers Point shooting and, according to their own accounts, killing Black men at will- with no threat of a police response. For the last three years, the shootings and the police force's role in them have been an open secret to many New Orleanians. To date, no one has been charged with a crime and law enforcement officials have refused to investigate.
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