Would you believe the New York Times then:
http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.d...46/1051/news01
The most frightening experience was still to come for one reporter, Gordon Russell, reporting from New Orleans. Last Thursday, when the streets seemed ripe for riots to break out, he and a photographer drove from the Convention Center into the aftermath of what looked like a shootout. A bloodied body lay on the ground and police officers had their weapons up.
The photographer, Marko Georgiev, a freelancer for The New York Times, said that as he slowed his car to take a photo, the police trained their weapons on the car. Ordered from the car, the two men were pushed face-first against the car and nearby walls with hands up. Police officers threw their notebooks and camera equipment to the ground and ordered them to leave.
Or, how about Editor and publisher "America's Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry"
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ea..._id=1001053700
Russell witnessed a shootout between police and citizens near the Convention Center that left one man dead in a pool of blood. Police, perhaps caught off guard by their sudden arrival on the scene, slammed Russell and the photographer against a wall and threw their gear on the ground as they exited their SUV to record the event.
The journalists retreated to Russell's home Uptown where they hid in fear. They planned to flee the city later today.
Or maybe the Baltimore Sun:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features...artslife-today
But reporting in the city remained a treacherous endeavor. Yesterday afternoon, The Times-Picayune posted on its Web site a dispatch, headlined "City Not Safe for Anyone," about one of its reporters, Gordon Russell, who, traveling in a sport utility vehicle with a photographer from The New York Times, "feared for his life and felt his safety was threatened at nearly every turn."
'I'm scared'
Russell described "throngs of hungry and desperate people" displaced by the flood who overwhelmed law enforcement officers and military personnel. "There was no crowd control," Russell said. "People were swarming. It was a near riot situation."
Near the Convention Center, Russell and the photographer witnessed a shootout between police and refugees that left one man dead in a pool of blood. "Police, perhaps caught off guard by their sudden arrival on the scene, slammed Russell and the photographer against a wall and threw their gear on the ground as they exited their SUV to record the event," the Web site said. The two journalists retreated to Russell's home, "where they hid in fear," it said.
Or just maybe, you would believe the Times Picayune themselves:
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakin...005_09_01.html
Russell witnessed a shootout between police and citizens near the
Convention Center that left one man dead in a pool of blood. Police, perhaps caught off guard by their sudden arrival on the scene, slammed Russell and the photographer against a wall and threw their gear on the ground as they exited their SUV to record the event.
But no Mike, I don't believe everything I read.............
