Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Ward Gangs in N.O. are heavily armed, always have been. We're talking
AK-47s, Uzis, etc. They do not care for human lives. Even before this
photographers would be risking their lives going into project areas. I've
seen coroner photos for years in New Orleans.
It's not worth it to risk your life down there. Though I feel sorry for the
vast majority of poor still stuck in New Orleans, these project people are
not worth it. Just like in Iraq, the only way to get rid of insurgency is to
kill them, or get out and save yourself.
Even the NOPD friends I know would kill them given the chance. And these are
black friends saying this.
Chris
New Orleans
Scott McLoughlin <scott@adrenaline.com> wrote:
I wonder if the Toronto and NYT jounalists were shooting discrete MP's
and Noctilux (on topic - see) if they could have avoided police
violence. For
that matter, I wonder why with all the looting and gun violence going on
why
police would have wasted their time with lone journalists wielding just
a simple
camera of any stripe?
Maybe FEMA should issue a warning to photo journalists and other press
personel to avoid dangerous, armed roaming police personel at all costs.
Sheesh, what a miserable country we live in - or so I'm sometimes led to
think. My Ukrainian g'friend pretty much hates it here, and I defend this
country to teeth. I'm gonna have a field day tomorrow when I see her.
Can't help it, I'm crying here.
Scott
Timothy Atherton wrote:
>if anyone is thinking of photographing in N.O.....
>
>>From Donald Winslow at the NPPA:
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Subject: Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing
>Violence, Chaos
>Importance: High
>
>
>Full Story Online At:
>http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/09/hurricane2.html
>
>Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing Violence, Chaos
>
>AUSTIN, TX (September 1, 2005) ­ As photojournalists continue to
>document
>the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?s violent assault on the Gulf Coast,
>today they also found themselves documenting new violence and death among
>the survivors, the refugees, and the looters and police and rescuers in New
>Orleans, while some photojournalists even fell victim to the violence
>themselves.
>
>Two veteran photojournalists - NPPA member Rick Wilking of Reuters and
>Getty's Mark Wilson - were robbed of cameras and computer equipment today
>while on assignment in a neighborhood in New Orleans, and a photojournalist
>and a reporter were confronted at gunpoint and slammed against a wall by
>police following a shoot-out between looters and cops that left at least one
>person dead.
>
>Another photojournalist - Lucas Oleniuk of the Toronto Star - was knocked to
>the ground by police, his gear taken from him initially, when he
>photographed them shooting at looters and then beating one. A New York Times
>photojournalist and Times-Picayune reporter Gordon Russell were slammed into
>a wall by police at gunpoint after they witnessed a shoot-out between cops
>and looters that left at least one person dead.
>
>In response to the growing violence and an increasing sense of despair among
>the stranded survivors, some television networks have hired armed private
>security firms to protect their journalists as they work to cover the story.
>
>Full Story Online At:
>http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/09/hurricane2.html
>
>
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