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Originally Posted by dissention
Although our investigation of the bridge incident is not complete, initial reports revealed that a warning shot was fired when the crowd became unruly and the safety of the officer was threatened.
Eyewitness accounts from the people trying to cross the bridge, a group of about 100 people, said that they never became unruly and that the officer in question fired warning shots as soon as they approached. The group then disbanded and a group of around 30-40 (many elderly) people camped out at the base of the bridge, and were then supposedly approached by Gretna police later that night and robbed of food and water at gunpoint.
And what exactly measures his safety being threatened?
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Well, in that situation, a group of 100 people walking toward a closed bridge during a time of wild rumors about raping and pillaging might qualify as a perceived threat, esp. considering the bridge was closed for that very reason and many of those rumors were substantiated. In the end, the bridge was closed and the people should have apparently in the end, did respect that. I just do not see the horrible nature of the officers here - save for the robbing of food and water, which to me is incdredible as many people had no food and water and the police had it.