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and it makes me ashamed of those women cops....i SAW the video, they WERE obviously stealing!! this is a damn crime. :yh_sick (click on MSNBC logo)...Police officers seen "shopping" at a New Orleans' Wal-Mart on TV after Katrina cleared of looting charges.

decisions like this cost honest cops respect. nobody with an IQ above 27 believes that shite. i am SO DISGUSTED!!!

yes Snooze, but we're held to a higher standard. these bitches were in uniform LOOTING!!

actually there were 4 of them...a veritable gang of uniformed thieves/sworn police officers. scum of the earth, no better than any other looter that was running off with a TV.

Mornin' LC. I've got two red x's where the logo should be, want to share some details? Sounds pretty f'ed up from what I gather from the replies. Cops in uniform LOOTING??? I bet you'd like to be the one busting them, wouldn't you?

here it is BR...no, i wish i had beat the living **** out of them. Updated: 5:36 a.m. ET March 20, 2006



NEW ORLEANS - Four New Orleans police officers have been cleared of allegations that they looted a Wal-Mart store after Hurricane Katrina, but each was suspended 10 days for not stopping civilians from ransacking the store, the Police Department said.

The probe stemmed from an MSNBC report that showed the officers filling a shopping cart with shoes, clothes and other items. When a reporter asked the officers what they were doing, one responded, “Looking for looters” and turned her back.

Assistant Police Chief Marlon Defillo, commander of the Public Integrity Bureau, said the officers seen on the video were recently cleared of looting because they had received permission from superiors to take necessities for themselves and other officers

The Police Department later informed Wal-Mart management, after the store had been secured, that its officers had taken some needed items, he said.

Suspended for 'neglect of duty'

The four officers ” Olivia Fontenot, Vera Polite, Debra Prosper and Kenyatta Phillips ” were suspended for 10 days without pay for “neglect of duty” because “people can be observed illegally inside the store with property in their possession and you took no police action to prevent or stop the looting,” according to their disciplinary letters.

Fontenot received an additional three-day penalty for her “discourteous” response to the MSNBC correspondent, her disciplinary letter states.

“It was determined that all four officers had received permission from their commanders to get clothing for fellow officers who were soaking wet,” Superintendent Warren Riley said through a spokesperson Friday. “They did not steal anything.”

Defillo said the officers were all assigned to the badly flooded 3rd Police District.

The department cleared two other officers who were investigated for looting at Wal-Mart based on photographs, Defillo said. He said those photos did not show other people looting, making it impossible to uphold suspensions for neglect of duty.

Two looting investigations involving police remain under investigation by federal authorities, Defillo said.

One involves the theft of about 200 vehicles from Sewell Cadillac Chevrolet and allegations that 3rd District commanders were involved in some of the thefts. The other involves a complaint from a hotel owner that a group of officers from the now-disbanded Community Policing squad kept a large stash of goods in one of the

“It was determined that all four officers had received permission from their commanders to get clothing for fellow officers who were soaking wet,” Superintendent Warren Riley said through a spokesperson Friday. “They did not steal anything.”


So. The boss says "take what you need and don't pay for it" and that makes it legal? Funny, it still sounds like stealing to me....



Were they also told to "take what was needed" for the civilian victims??? Somehow I doubt it.

yeah, it was urgent to commandeer plasma TVs. despite having no damn place to plug them in. and something else, all police depts. have a purchasing/supply section with plenty of clean dry clothes. riley is a damn liar.

lady cop wrote: yeah, it was urgent to commandeer plasma TVs. despite having no damn place to plug them in. and something else, all police depts. have a purchasing/supply section with plenty of clean dry clothes. riley is a damn liar.
How totally revolting, disgusting and disillusioning. A theif is bad enough. A theif in blue is just....I don't even have words. I'm truly sickened.

i cannot even tell you how many bad hurricanes i have been through. we stayed in the nasty jail for days at a time, had only the clothes/uniforms on our backs, and none of our brass told us to go loot the mall. i sure would like to see the requisition slips. lying sack of sh*t. every honest cop in the country ought to be furious. even in extremis, this is corruption, pure and simple.

Assistant Police Chief Marlon Defillo, commander of the Public Integrity Bureau, said the officers seen on the video were recently cleared of looting because they had received permission from superiors to take necessities for themselves and other officers
They were given permission yet civilians were screwed. If I were arrested for looting, I would be filing discrimination lawsuits and anything else I could. I KNEW they'd get away with it though.:-1

I saw that on TV, LC. A reporter walked right up to them & asked them what they were doing. The one walked away & the other one, caught with her hand in the proverbial cookie jar, just calmly replied, "Just doing my job. I'm keeping the peace." or something like that. Her response was basically that if everyone else was doing it, it was alright for her & her colleague to do it too. When I saw them, they were in the shoe department, checking out the different shoes.