New Orleans City Council Bars Public From Housing Vote

Despite claims that it waited until the hall had reached capacity, this video clearly shows that there were still seats available before people were kept from coming into a public meeting on the fate of 83% of all available public housing in New Orleans. Tasers abounded inside the New Orleans City council chambers when police were used to clear the room of the leaders who have challenged the legality of the demolition of the public housing. Critics of the policy have charged that the City of New Orleans has systematically taken advantage of the "opportunity" Hurricane Katrina provided to racially cleanse the city of poor and largely African American citizens from the public housing by physically installing barricades to keep residents from housing that came through the hurricane unscathed, without so much as a window broken. They charge that the projects are within easy walking distance of the French Quarter and therefore represent prime real estate that would not be available to developers unless there was collusion with government officials. And if that were not enough, they charge that Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Alphozo Jackson has awarded no bid contracts for the demolition of the projects to a contractor who owed Jackson several hundred thousand dollars from previous dealings.
New Orleans City Council Members
Arnie Fielkow
City Hall, Room 2W40
1300 Perdido Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
504.658.1060

Shelley Midura
City Hall, Room 2W80
1300 Perdido Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
504.658.1010

Stacy S. Head
City Hall, Room 2W10
1300 Perdido Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
504.658.1020

James Carter
city Hall, Room 2W70
1300 Perdido Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
504.658.1030

Cynthia Hedge-Morrell
city Hall, Room 2W20
1300 Perdido Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
504.658.1040

Cynthia Willard-Lewis
City Hall, Room 2W60
1300 Perdido Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
504.658.1050

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• demolition
• taser
• police
• brutality
• corruption
• Mayor
• Nagin
• ethnic
• cleansing
• racism

[625switch]

This is wonderfully ediited. All the racial slurs the African Americans shouted have been wonderfully edited out.

Don't be fooled by this video, Americans. The person posting is lying to you. They've only only shown you part of a video in order to support what they want you to support. And we all know the dangers of these kind off people on both sides.

To find out how much they are trying to decieve you, search out the entire video and see what they didn't show you!

[WHYNotNews]

@625switch How are people supposed to "search out the entire video and see what they didn't show you!" .... idiot, If we did not show it, then it is not there to see!

[trex65ghia]

fucking animals....

[WHYNotNews]

@trex65ghia Fucking Un American Racist!



[trex65ghia]

@WHYNotNews UnAmerican???? 8 years in military 2 tours to the desert. I pay my taxes, I vote, and follow the laws and I don't act like a disgrace when i don't understand whats going on. Those buildings needed to come down. The entitlement syndrom here in urban America is UN-American... you dipshit.... I'm not a racists. But that seems to be the easiest thing to call anybody that disagrees with your political views I'm sure. Its always the race card.

[WHYNotNews]

@trex65ghia Yes, you are a racist to call fellow Americans "fucking animals...."

[skinnychef]

fucking pigs! fucking smarmy ass city council pretending to be coy.. what a sham of democracy we live in.

[WTFaboutWTC7]

Absolutly nothing! Say it again...

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

if all these people pitched in one dollar to the cause of helping themselves instead of complaining.... about letting people live... show us how you can helpp youselves

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

lol this cazy nigger suspends the constitution? get the fuck out dumbass.

[MaitreTsu]

@colinburgesstech And i am black from New Orleans and proud of it. These people do not represent this great city neither do i, the mayor or any other person in it, the city is of its own, think about its architecture, culture, cuisine, music, arts and history not the one thing that draws hate towards it, these people will die and be gone, the city itself wont, please take this in consideration, New Orleans is not a place to hate, and i say this as a native and lover of my city.

[MaitreTsu]

@colinburgesstech a representation of every black person on this planet, so please do not make other blacks represent me or anyone else that disapproves of those bad apples actions.

[MaitreTsu]

@colinburgesstech almost every one does, housing projects are for those in need, now if you would like to argue that they are not being used in the proper manner i would completely agree, they are not, just like many other government programs assisting the needy, they are just being used as a permanent fix by the people in them not as a temporary means, that goes for food stamps, free local television, the new cell phone services etc. all being misused, massively by the blacks yes, but i am not

[MaitreTsu]

@colinburgesstech I was explaining that black people use the race card in many situations even in ones like the example you gave, sometimes its true sometimes not every person of African origin or decent isn't the same, that would go for any race, Hispanics resemble blacks in the U.S on so many levels that the difference only come down to culture the problem isnt that they are black, blue or green its that they dont care, not every city in America has a project development filled with blacks but