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Who is a Looter?

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many photographs such as the one seen in Photograph number one flashed across the news channels around America, and throughout the world. The images show a happy, free-for-all style looting of a local New Orleans business, which was closed prior to the storm, and, in the stranded aftermath of the storm, after many of the citys police, firemen, and in the absence of the states National Guard troops, was being looted by residents who had not evacuated the city (Garrett, Brandon, and Tetlow, Tania, 2006, 127). Many images like this failed to show white people looting, and there were plenty of whites who helped their selves to store shelves around the city in the days following the storm, before authorities could regain control over the abandoned city
Even as the story unfolded on the television screens across America, some people began asking questions: Where was the Red Cross? Where were the rescue teams? Where were the police? Where, indeed? As it turned out, the Red Cross did not go to New Orleans until after stability was returned to the city. While in the arena where the New Orleans Saints

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