Once we get the 3,000 National Guardsmen here, we're locking this place down, ... It's really difficult because my opinion of the looting is it started with people running out of food, and you can't really argue with that too much. Then it escalated to this kind of mass chaos where people are taking electronic stuff and all that.

Ray Nagin

Difficult Guardsmen Locking National Opinion

Related Quotes

We had some National Guardsmen here, but they were unarmed.

GuardsmenNationalUnarmed

Vincent collapsed. He was escorted behind the barricades by National Guardsmen and they wouldn't let the family back there. Eventually the family just got swept away in the crush.

— Christine Ando

BarricadesBehindCollapsed

The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city that I had ridden my bicycle as a youth being fully flooded.

AreaBeingBicycle

It's such a sad day to come here, ... My sympathy goes out to all the families whose loved ones have been identified and also for the families who are still seeking their relatives and loved ones who are still missing.

The task at hand is to bring New Orleans back, ... However, we want everyone to assess the risks and make an informed decision about re-entry plans.

AssessBringHand