Just one day after Hurrican Katrina struck New Orleans the NOPD (New Orleans Police Department) was hard at word defending merchants from the looters looters from the merchants, (captured on film). When uniformed police officers so flagrantly flaunt the law, little respect can be expected of the citizenry. Although other cops truly tried to perform their duties in the most horrendous of cirumstances, those police who violated their powers, authority and responsibilties to maintain order, should be most severely punished.

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