USA Reality - Katrina - Vigilantes Shooting Black Men.(II)

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December 19, 2008

Katrinas Hidden Race War: In Aftermath of Storm, White Vigilante Groups Shot 11 African Americans in New Orleans

In a shocking new report, The Nation magazine exposes how white vigilante groups patrolled the streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, shooting at least eleven African American men. Local police have never conducted investigations into the shootings. We speak to reporter A.C. Thompson and New Orleans resident Donnell Herrington, who nearly died after being shot by a white vigilante.


A.C. Thompson, investigative reporter whose latest article Katrinas Hidden Race War appears in The Nation magazine. A.C. Thompsons reporting on New Orleans was directed and underwritten by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute. ProPublica provided additional support, as did the Center for Investigative Reporting and New American Media.

Donnell Herrington, New Orleans resident who nearly died on Sept. 1, 2005, after he was shot by a white vigilante in Algiers Point.



When Hurricane Katrina ripped into New Orleans, most people tried to flee. In one neighborhood, however, a band of fifteen to thirty people refused to evacuate. With the police department crippled, these people amassed weapons and began patrolling the streets. Before long, bullets began to fly.

Fearing an influx of outsiders, the gunmen of Algiers Point barricaded their streets. Malik Rahim is one of a handful of blacks living in Algiers Point. In the days after Katrina, he says he was threatened at gunpoint by several white neighbors.

what we did over the span of eighteen months is we would try to recreate the history. We tried to go back and figure out exactly what happened in basically the two weeks after the storm hit. And so, what I did is I tracked down people like Donnell Herrington. I tracked down people who admitted to being involved in the gunfire, the vigilantes themselves. I tracked down eyewitnesses, people like Malik Rahim. And I asked everyone, What did you see? Dont tell me about what you heard about. Dont tell me about what people told you about. Tell me about what you saw, what you were involved in, what you experienced.

And what I came to believe from my interviews was that at least eleven people, all of them African American males, were shot in the Algiers Point neighborhood during about the week after the storm hit. That information was bolstered, one, by a trauma surgeon, the doctor who operated on Donnell, who said, Hey, we had a whole stream of people in our emergency room who had been shot, some of them fatally. He said at least five or six non-fatal gunshot wounds, three fatal gunshot wounds. And he said, Look, I dont think any of these cases have been investigated. I think they went unreported.

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[rangers11000]

if people were looting your homes with your family inside i would be out blowing heads off regardless of there race,but black people are the kind of folk tha would take advantage of a situation to loot,just look at la

[standard952]

If you loot ,you may get shot, its that simple.

[station4hiphop]

im so glad you house niggers see how branches of government think of your ppl laying dead in the street. if he was a fallen cop,soldier or white person his body would not be there for 2 weeks. stop joining their military and police force they dont give a fuck about you.

[OlderG0ds]

@camay1983 They actually killed 11 niggers. And they all deserved it for trying to commit crimes in whitey's neighborhood. We all know how niggers act in times of a disaster , they steal steal steal, rob, kill, rape (not much different than any other time now that I think about it),

so watch out blacks if we ever see a group of you marching down my neighborhood you gonna get shot and hung from a tree.

[RUASandRUTTENftw]

Camay,sounds like a plan.Start with the Hell's Angels,go march into one of there clubs.

[camay1983]

I going out kill me somebody white eye 4 eye you bitches

[bananito6]

Niggers loot for everything

fuck them over.

[nyedawg73]

Fuck all those Katrina niggers

[nyedawg73]

Sweet!

[Tassieguru]

Whats your name? : "You Need to talk to our Public information Officer" nice name faggot.

[ThoriumRex]

You know what is really troubling?

It is plain to see what happens when a major catastrophe strikes a predominantly Black area.

All you hear is "Whitey don't want to help us poor Black Folk".

You know why?

You fucking idiots burn down your own neighborhoods and loot all stores, eve nif they are owned by fellow Blacks, with any excusethey get, What makes you think people who DON"T do that in the face of Catastrophe will let you do it to their Neighborhoods?

What a joke.