Did anyone watch the Katrina documentary on HBO earlier in the week?

Something I did not know about is that hundreds of people trying to escape New Orleans the day after the hurricane were stopped on this one bridge which connected to a neighboring county. The sheriff of that county assembled a large force of cops with shotguns on their side of the bridge and they threatened to shoot anyone who crossed. Instead, the people had to wait for 3 more days without food or water for help to get there, since there was no other way out (the other directions were all under water).

Apparently that neighboring county is mostly white and they didn't want such a large group of black people entering their county.

Sounds like some big conspiracy theory, but they interviewed dozens of people who witnessed this personally.

Seems as if racism is quite common in Louisiana.

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