Sometimes it ain’t all Pollyana
Officers were recently charged with the brutal and utterly irrational killing of family members on the Danzinger bridge during the levee failure of 2005. Sort of shows the worst side of the truth. In a city that learned human beings are capable of such incredible generosity and kindness (witness the outpouring of support from the entire globe, the unprecedented number of volunteers that continue to show up to rebuild the remaining 50,000 houses that are still destroyed here, and the resiliency of a people to get up again when they’ve been cut down at the knees), it belies a few humans gone wrong like these police officers who showed base, psychotic and irresponsible behavior that day on that bridge.