deserves repeating
Police Superintendent Warren Riley said police had legitimate reasons for confiscating weapons.
"We took guns that were stolen that were stashed in alleyways. If we went into an abandoned house and a gun was there, absolutely we took the weapons," he said. "Obviously there were looters out there. We didn't want some burglar or looter to have an opportunity to arm themselves."
When post-Katrina N.O.La. first became an issue, I downloaded the
ABCS CNN and FOX video bytes, especially the two Channel 2 San Fran
station whose reporter followed the CHiPs into N.O.La and the video
of Patricia Kronie getting her shoulder dislocated by three CHiPs taking
her gun and dragging out of her high and dry home on Magazine Street,
the lawyer at his nome, and the other folks in non-flooded parts of
the city being handcuffed as the police took their guns. And video of
empty homes being broken into by Swat-ninjaed-up troopers leading
with their M4s pointed ahead in caes they encountered folks needing
to be "rescued." Warner Riley is trying to re-write history
ala orwellian 1984 Ministry of Truth memory hole tactics.