Katrina: survivor first-hand account from Charmaine Neville

By at 11:15 am Wednesday, Sep 7

Famed musician and New Orleans native Charmaine Neville's account of being stranded, attempting to rescue others, and "being treated like animals" by the federal authorities who were tasked with protecting and saving citizens. Ms. Neville broke into a school bus, packed it with survivors -- some of whom were disabled persons confined to wheelchairs -- and drove them out of the city.
There were alligators eating people, babies floating in the water, hundreds of bodies of dead people..

"We understood why the police couldn't help us but we didn't understant why the National Guard wouldn't stop and pick us up from the roof...

"Some men came and they were raping our women...

If they hadn't left us out there like animals this wouldn't have happened... there are still thousands of people trapped down there downtown.. old people, young people, babies, pregnant women, nobody's helping them...

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