"Don't be surprised when confused stories come out and get contradicted. Here's the latest, according to the AP and the TV folk; the Army Corps of Engineers had contractors at work, they were shot at by some lunatics (obviously, there is no justification for such lunacy) and the police shot and killed the people who were attacking them. Assuming these are the facts, bravo to the police for protecting emergency workers, bravo to the people volunteering to go into these dangerous situations."

As authorities struggled to keep order, police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said.

There's a completely inappropriate bit of editorializing