MICHAEL V.

9/6/05

I think the government should pay every person from New Orleans $100,000 or $200,000 so they can really make a fresh start. Not no $2,000. Try $200,000. Just take care of these people. Let them choose where to live and start over.

I was in the Convention Center for five days. I had two little babies in my arms, two, three month old babies that looked like they was three weeks old. And I went up to a police officer. I said, "Ma'am, can you please take these two little babies and just let them ride around in the car with you, get an hour of air conditioning? Or better yet, take them to Trinity Hospital? They'll take them there.” You know what she did? She dropped a bottle of water out the window of the car and said, "Write to the press." A bottle of water.

Police killed a guy from here to the wheelchair over there (about 50 feet.) They killed him with one shot. He was running up to their van. Not all the bodies were natural death, most were killed by the police.

I was losing hope. I never caught a plane a day in my life. But when I caught that plane, it didn’t matter.

Me personally, it makes me feel good to tell you about it because I want the world to know how they turned their back on their citizens. If that lady had taken those two children...