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    Vol. 69/No. 37           September 26, 2005 
 
 
How cops obstructed evacuation

Getty Images/AFP/Mario Tama (top)
Reuters/Rick Wilking (bottom)
New Orleans residents use a U.S. postal service truck to escape the deluge August 31, having loaded the wheelchair of an elderly man on top (top). Enroute they are stopped by police, forced at gunpoint to lie face down (bottom), and then ordered to continue on foot.
 
 
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