Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans of NOPD officers. Rebecca Solnit, writing in "The Nation", reported that “Several weeks after Hurricane Katrina, community organizer and former Black Panther Malik Rahim had told Amy Goodman on her nationally syndicated program DemocracyNow!, "During the aftermath, directly after the flooding, in New Orleans hunting season began on young African American men. In Algiers, I believe, approximately around 18 African American males were killed. No one really knows [s] what's the overall count." These investigations led to at least one indictment by the Department of Justice. Civil disturbances in post-Hurricane Katrina were consistent with all existing research on disaster sociology,
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