Steven spotted in N.O.
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kickingbird
candle lighter
Yes, in fact Steven was trying very hard not to be in the limelight during the news interview.
In case anyone is interested, the transcript for the Sept. 12 Rita Crosby has been posted on MSNBC's site here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9326665/
Littledragon
Above The Law
TDWoj said:
Thanks TD.
From The News
RE: New Haven Register
Local cops return from New Orleans experience
EAST HAVEN — Six East Haven police officers who just got back from a week helping out in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La., never felt more needed — or appreciated — than when they arrived to help overtaxed officers of those two struggling cities, if only for a few days.
"They requested the help. We were just lucky enough to be able to go," said Officer Bryan Kelly, referring to a request for additional police officers that went out on the National Crime Information System early on.
He responded by going down with his fellow East Haven canine officer, Joe Peterson, detectives Troy Raccuia and Tom Russell, Sgt. John Alves and Officer Robert Ranfone.
The six officers all are members of East Haven’s Emergency Services Unit, equivalent to the department’s SWAT team.
Many of the New Orleans officers the East Haven police met had lost their own homes when some of New Orleans’ levees broke, but some never left their jobs and others — unlike a large chunk of the New Orleans police force — were back at work just as soon as they knew their families were safe, Peterson and Kelly said.
But despite their own problems, "they treated us like royalty," said Peterson.
"They were just very appreciative," said Kelly. "We were helping them and they were looking to accommodate us."
Civilians also expressed their appreciation when they found out how far the East Haven cops had come to help out, they said.
"They were all, ‘Thank you! God bless you!’" said Peterson.
"I think the best part was the appreciation of the people," said Kelly.
The East Haven officers were moved by some of the devastation they saw.
"Up here, we don’t get too many hurricanes," said Peterson. "It was just shocking to see that a hurricane could do that much damage."
He and Kelly said a few things stand out from their few days in New Orleans.
"The stench," said Peterson.
"There was death everywhere," said Kelly.
They also were moved when they walked through Baton Rouge’s Riverside Centroplex convention center, where, according to news accounts, more than 5,000 evacuees have been staying in Louisiana’s largest temporary shelter.
Among other things, they saw people laying on cots with their only remaining possessions — in one woman’s case, a television set, sitting next to them, said Kelly.
Things have started to improve a bit in New Orleans since the first days after the levees broke, when the city descended into lawlessness, Kelly said.
"I give those officers a lot of credit," he said, pointing out that the police down there are working 16-hour shifts and then often heading straight back to work when reports of looting come in. "I can’t really stress how much that particular group really did. The SWAT team was really an extraordinary group of guys."
Kelly and Peterson drove down on Sept. 10 and returned Thursday night. Both said they would go back again, particularly if FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, eventually sets up a formal program to bring officers in for periods of time.
This time, the men all went down on their own time and at their own risk. They took vacation time with Chief of Police Leonard Gallo’s blessing, after he first suggested that they wait for FEMA to request officers. Gallo could not immediately be reached for comment.
Peterson and Kelly said Gallo agreed to let them bring their service pistols and bulletproof vests, along with sleeping bags and some supplies. But they paid their own way — about $250 per person for gas — and weren’t paid for their services.
Once there, Alves and Raccuia, who left a day earlier than the other officers, hooked up with authorities in Baton Rouge, which has doubled in size as it has absorbed people evacuated from New Orleans, and were sworn in to act as officers in Louisiana.
Russell, Ranfone, Peterson and Kelly went to Baton Rouge first and worked one 16-hour shift, then headed to New Orleans, where they hooked up with the New Orleans Police Department SWAT team through a personal contact with SWAT team member — and Guilford native — John Barbetti.
East Haven police officer Nick Kattis, who did not make the journey, is good friends with Barbetti and gave the other officers his cell phone number, Kelly and Peterson said. They called him while en route and Barbetti — who was one of the New Orleans officers who lost their homes — told them that the New Orleans officers would welcome their help.
The four East Haven officers ended up going out on dangerous night operations with the New Orleans SWAT team, making sure that buildings had been evacuated. Because of situations in which police had been shot at, they had to tactically clear each building, entering it as if there was someone in there with a gun, Peterson and Kelly said.
They slept on cots in a school that the SWAT team had taken over as its temporary headquarters.
While there, the East Haven cops met police officers from all across the country — New Mexico, Chicago, Michigan and California along with agents from the federal Department of Homeland Security and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
They also ran into the unexpected in the person of action movie actor Steven Seagal — who actually is a sheriff’s deputy for one of the Louisiana parishes and was there with the New Orleans SWAT team members at the same time as the East Haven officers, they said.
"He was just there basically doing the same thing that we were," said Peterson.
Seagal, like the other officers who came from other places, including those from East Haven, also was armed, said Kelly.
Peterson and Kelly both left key policing tools — their dogs, Bear and Mici — at home because of the potentially toxic nature of the floodwaters in New Orleans, they said.
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suzi
RE: New Haven Register
Local cops return from New Orleans experience
EAST HAVEN — Six East Haven police officers who just got back from a week helping out in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La., never felt more needed — or appreciated — than when they arrived to help overtaxed officers of those two struggling cities, if only for a few days.
"They requested the help. We were just lucky enough to be able to go," said Officer Bryan Kelly, referring to a request for additional police officers that went out on the National Crime Information System early on.
He responded by going down with his fellow East Haven canine officer, Joe Peterson, detectives Troy Raccuia and Tom Russell, Sgt. John Alves and Officer Robert Ranfone.
The six officers all are members of East Haven’s Emergency Services Unit, equivalent to the department’s SWAT team.
Many of the New Orleans officers the East Haven police met had lost their own homes when some of New Orleans’ levees broke, but some never left their jobs and others — unlike a large chunk of the New Orleans police force — were back at work just as soon as they knew their families were safe, Peterson and Kelly said.
But despite their own problems, "they treated us like royalty," said Peterson.
"They were just very appreciative," said Kelly. "We were helping them and they were looking to accommodate us."
Civilians also expressed their appreciation when they found out how far the East Haven cops had come to help out, they said.
"They were all, ‘Thank you! God bless you!’" said Peterson.
"I think the best part was the appreciation of the people," said Kelly.
The East Haven officers were moved by some of the devastation they saw.
"Up here, we don’t get too many hurricanes," said Peterson. "It was just shocking to see that a hurricane could do that much damage."
He and Kelly said a few things stand out from their few days in New Orleans.
"The stench," said Peterson.
"There was death everywhere," said Kelly.
They also were moved when they walked through Baton Rouge’s Riverside Centroplex convention center, where, according to news accounts, more than 5,000 evacuees have been staying in Louisiana’s largest temporary shelter.
Among other things, they saw people laying on cots with their only remaining possessions — in one woman’s case, a television set, sitting next to them, said Kelly.
Things have started to improve a bit in New Orleans since the first days after the levees broke, when the city descended into lawlessness, Kelly said.
"I give those officers a lot of credit," he said, pointing out that the police down there are working 16-hour shifts and then often heading straight back to work when reports of looting come in. "I can’t really stress how much that particular group really did. The SWAT team was really an extraordinary group of guys."
Kelly and Peterson drove down on Sept. 10 and returned Thursday night. Both said they would go back again, particularly if FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, eventually sets up a formal program to bring officers in for periods of time.
This time, the men all went down on their own time and at their own risk. They took vacation time with Chief of Police Leonard Gallo’s blessing, after he first suggested that they wait for FEMA to request officers. Gallo could not immediately be reached for comment.
Peterson and Kelly said Gallo agreed to let them bring their service pistols and bulletproof vests, along with sleeping bags and some supplies. But they paid their own way — about $250 per person for gas — and weren’t paid for their services.
Once there, Alves and Raccuia, who left a day earlier than the other officers, hooked up with authorities in Baton Rouge, which has doubled in size as it has absorbed people evacuated from New Orleans, and were sworn in to act as officers in Louisiana.
Russell, Ranfone, Peterson and Kelly went to Baton Rouge first and worked one 16-hour shift, then headed to New Orleans, where they hooked up with the New Orleans Police Department SWAT team through a personal contact with SWAT team member — and Guilford native — John Barbetti.
East Haven police officer Nick Kattis, who did not make the journey, is good friends with Barbetti and gave the other officers his cell phone number, Kelly and Peterson said. They called him while en route and Barbetti — who was one of the New Orleans officers who lost their homes — told them that the New Orleans officers would welcome their help.
The four East Haven officers ended up going out on dangerous night operations with the New Orleans SWAT team, making sure that buildings had been evacuated. Because of situations in which police had been shot at, they had to tactically clear each building, entering it as if there was someone in there with a gun, Peterson and Kelly said.
They slept on cots in a school that the SWAT team had taken over as its temporary headquarters.
While there, the East Haven cops met police officers from all across the country — New Mexico, Chicago, Michigan and California along with agents from the federal Department of Homeland Security and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
They also ran into the unexpected in the person of action movie actor Steven Seagal — who actually is a sheriff’s deputy for one of the Louisiana parishes and was there with the New Orleans SWAT team members at the same time as the East Haven officers, they said.
"He was just there basically doing the same thing that we were," said Peterson.
Seagal, like the other officers who came from other places, including those from East Haven, also was armed, said Kelly.
Peterson and Kelly both left key policing tools — their dogs, Bear and Mici — at home because of the potentially toxic nature of the floodwaters in New Orleans, they said.
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suzi
GlimmerMan
Huge Member
Interesting. Nice one Suzi.
Thanks, Kickingbird, for the original information, and thank you, Suzi, for the follow-up article. 
I'm constantly impressed with Steven's generosity and humanitarianism, from visiting children's hospitals in whatever countries he visits, his HIV/AIDs awareness participation, different charity events, and now something like this.
Suzi, we'll be expecting some pictures soon, eh?
And don't forget those nighttime vision goggles.
I'm constantly impressed with Steven's generosity and humanitarianism, from visiting children's hospitals in whatever countries he visits, his HIV/AIDs awareness participation, different charity events, and now something like this. Suzi, we'll be expecting some pictures soon, eh?
And don't forget those nighttime vision goggles.
Serena said:Thanks, Kickingbird, for the original information, and thank you, Suzi, for the follow-up article.
Suzi, we'll be expecting some pictures soon, eh?
And don't forget those nighttime vision goggles.
I'm following him very carefully !!!
You're right ... This big guy is really very interesting GM !!!!
I got this from our local tv station blog:
John Turner is a part-time Boulder City policeman besides being our operations manager. He’s been over talking to the mish-mash of police from all over the country. While he’s there, Steven Seagall – movie star – shows up all decked out in Kevlar and with automatic weapons and pistols. He announces his intention to go out on patrol with the night-shift cops, and they all swoon, star-struck. Can you believe this? The line between art and reality gets really blurred here sometimes.
http://www.klastv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3844439
Dave Courvoisier's New Orleans Blog
9/16/05
John Turner is a part-time Boulder City policeman besides being our operations manager. He’s been over talking to the mish-mash of police from all over the country. While he’s there, Steven Seagall – movie star – shows up all decked out in Kevlar and with automatic weapons and pistols. He announces his intention to go out on patrol with the night-shift cops, and they all swoon, star-struck. Can you believe this? The line between art and reality gets really blurred here sometimes.
http://www.klastv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3844439
Dave Courvoisier's New Orleans Blog
9/16/05
aikidoboynj
"Lookin fit Nelson"
Seagal in kevlar with automatic weapons and pistols, those looters better watch there asses lol...I hope he spends some time with the people who have lost everything it would be a little more for them to feel good about.
Sean Penn is such an idiot, I can't believe someone even a hollywood person would stoop that low, what an Idiot I never liked that coke-head anyway.
Sean Penn is such an idiot, I can't believe someone even a hollywood person would stoop that low, what an Idiot I never liked that coke-head anyway.
GlimmerMan
Huge Member
What exactly did Sean Penn do wrong? From what I read he spent 10 hours pulling people to safety out of the floodwaters and only stopped when his boat sprung a leak. Or is there something I don't know about?
tenshinaikidoka
Martial Art Student
Penn was doing this as a publicty campaing, for some unknown reason and he did have publicist and photographers documenting his moves like he was doing a special for national geographic.
kickingbird
candle lighter
Speaking of National Geographic, for those of you who have the October 2004 issue, there's a very uncanny article about the Bayou/New Orleans worth reading.
GlimmerMan
Huge Member
What a guy is what I say. I'm sure the people whose lives he saved didn't mind having a few photos taken.
Littledragon
Above The Law
TDWoj said:
What was wrong with that??
GlimmerMan
Huge Member
I can see the point that is being made - Penn should maybe have had a little more humility when he was rescuing people and not turned it into some kind of self-indulgent crusade. But at least he actually got up and did something positive, regardless of whether it was documented. I read yesterday that Nicholas Cage has donated $1 million of his personal fortune to help the people caught in the storm.