| Soldiers assaulted hurricane victim { September 7 2005 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active) http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/07/1415225http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/07/1415225
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005 Three Displaced New Orleans Residents Discuss Race and Hurricane Katrina
We speak with three residents of New Orleans who were forced to flee - David Gladstone, Beverly Wright and Curtis Muhammad - about who gets saved and who doesn't and even the question: will New Orleans be rebuilt? [includes rush transcript]
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AMY GOODMAN: What happened when you were walking by a car with military or whoever walking by?
DAVID GLADSTONE: The person I was with had driven with me back to the central business district to find some people he had offered a ride out of the city to, as well, and while he was in waist-deep water looking for them, I was standing by the car when some official people on a Caterpillar tractor pulled up to me and were screaming at me to move the car, even though they could get around it. I yelled back that I -- that it wasn't my car, and I didn't have the keys. And I was yelling for the owner of the car to come back and move it, and in the yelling and screaming, at one point, the officer removed his gun from his holster and pointed it right at me and then another one jumped off the Caterpillar and butted me up against the side of a building with his – what looked like an M-16 rifle or something like that. And it was really at that point I realized that social order, at least as I knew it, had broken down in the city, and that I had to get out. Fortunately, I was able to do that.
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