Hurricane looters

[STITCH]

I got to thinking about the people in the Katrina disaster that were shot / killed for looting. What if anything is going to happen to the people that killed them? I am in the generator business and I have a lot of contacts that went to Louisiana after the storm to sell / service generators, most of them told me stories of the police asking them if they were armed. The ones that were armed were advised by the police to shoot anyone that tries to loot or rob them while they are there and to just leave them where they fall and to place a “looter tag” on them. What ever happened to those people? Were there deaths investigated? What’s next?

 

[exar]

Places that are lawless don't tend to have the ability to track events like that. This is why they just said to leave a tag on the body. I doubt they'll go to much trouble to find the shooter, their way too busy for that down there.

 

[Mike Irwin]

I was working for NRA and compiling The Armed Citizen when hurricane Andrew (I think it was Andrew) hit South Florida in the early 1990s.

There were a number of incidents where looters were shot by people protecting what little they had left. The national news media even treated the home owners pretty sympathetically.

To the best of my knowledge, not a single homeowner was ever arrested or prosecuted for shooting a looter.