Gretna Sucks

Gretna Police Chief Arthur S. Lawson, Jr.

He is directly responsible for the deaths of multiple people by refusing to offer aid to the victims of hurricane Katrina.

GretnaSucks.com - This website and blog is open to anyone who would like to post articles or comments about Gretna Louisiana. One of the most evil, racist cities in America. This is the city that blocked one of the only exits out of New Orleans during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina because they didn’t want any “fucking niggers” in their town.

Long wary of next-door New Orleans, the town stands by its decision to bar the city's evacuees.
by Nicholas Riccardi

GRETNA, Louisiana - Little over a week after this mostly white suburb became a symbol of callousness for using armed officers to seal one of the last escape routes from New Orleans — trapping thousands of mostly black evacuees in the flooded city — the Gretna City Council passed a resolution supporting the police chief's move.

This wasn't just one man's decision," Mayor Ronnie C. Harris said Thursday. "The whole community backs it."

By Rob Kall Opednews.com

I woke up at 4:30 AM to a nightmare that is real. Paid mercenary killers—Blackwater paramilitary mercenaries—the ones that are hired to stalk the worst danger zones of Iraq—are roving the streets of New Orleans, armed to the teeth, with permission to kill.

They have been purportedly hired by the federal and Louisiana governments.

I got this account of two paramedics trapped in New Orleans as an email from my boss. It's reprinted here, without any identifying information, with her permission. I thought it was an interesting viewpoint not generally seen in the media and especially not seen on FOX News Channel.

Sunday September 11th 2005
ANDREW BUNCOMBE in Washington

A LOUISIANA police chief has admitted that he ordered his officers to block a bridge over the Mississippi river and force escaping evacuees back into the chaos and danger of New Orleans.

Witnesses said the officers regularly fired their guns above the heads of the terrified, mainly black, people to drive them back and "protect" their own suburbs.

by Gardiner Harris New York Times

Police agencies to the south of New Orleans were so fearful of the crowds attempting to leave the city after Hurricane Katrina that they sealed a crucial bridge over the Mississippi River and turned back hundreds of desperate evacuees, according to two paramedics who were in the crowd.

By Shaun Waterman UPI Homeland and National Security Editor

Police from surrounding jurisdictions shut down several access points to one of the only ways out of New Orleans last week, effectively trapping victims of Hurricane Katrina in the flooded and devastated city.

An eyewitness account from two San Francisco paramedics posted on an internet site for Emergency Medical Services specialists says, "Thousands of New Orleaners were prevented and prohibited from self-evacuating the city on foot."

by Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky

Larry Bradshaw is a rescue paramedic for the San Francisco Fire Department. Lorrie Beth Slonsky, who also worked for the San Francisco Fire Department, retired in July 2004. This article has been reprinted with permission of the authors.