Kansalliskaartilla on kovinkin paljon tekemistä rikollisuuden kanssa, katso vaikka hurrikaani Katrina
Sinun kannattaa lukea uusiksi miten Katrinan uutisointi ryöstelystä, murhista ja raiskauksista oli täysin yliammuttua eikä kansalliskaartia olisi todellakaan tarvittu. Jopa kansalliskaartia koordinaattori ja kuvernööri myöntävät että raportit olivat liioiteltuja ja hidastivat ja vaikeuttivat pelastustöitä.
National guard coordinator and ex-governor say tales of violence and looting – which hampered rescue work and led to quasi-militia groups – were exaggerated
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How rumour and officials spouting hyperbole combined to worsen the chaos in New Orleans in the days after Hurricane Katrina hit.
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Esimerkki yllä olevasta uutisesta:
Five days later, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey he went even further, saying of the situation inside the Superdome:
"We had little babies in there, some of the little babies getting raped."
New Orleans Mayor C Ray Nagin, who was interviewed on the same programme, concurred, saying:
"They have people standing out there, have been in that frickin' Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people."
In these febrile conditions the image of New Orleans transformed: from a city of natural disaster victims, to a hostile environment where criminality had spiralled completely out of control.
However, for the most part, the stories of looting, rape and murder were vastly exaggerated.
In the end of the only six people were confirmed as having died at the Superdome - four from natural causes, one from a drug overdose, and one a suicide.
At the Convention Center, four bodies were recovered - one of whom was believed to have been murdered.