Stories of Armed Community Defense
It Could Happen Here
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Katrina and the N.O.P.D.
A.C. Thompson spent months speaking with survivors of Katrina about a racist militia that formed in the predominantly White neighborhood of El Jira's point. Residents told investigators that police had given them a green light to shoot anyone breaking into their property and to quote, leave the bodies on the side of the road. Others spoke of a free for all of white against black where whites can indulge in violence with impunity.
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