Daily Archives: February 3, 2006

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More New Orleans fallout

Remember Patricia Konie? She was the lady the news cameras caught being forcibly removed from her home during the state-mandated “evacuation” of New Orleans following the horrible mismanagement of the Katrina debacle.

Well, as it turns out, she was injured during the scuffle when she was body-slammed by a man three times her weight, and according to the U.S. Newswire:

“(…)Konie was greeting a reporter and photographer from a San Francisco TV station and a journalist from the London Times when police unexpectedly entered her home. When she refused to leave as ordered, they confiscated a firearm used for defense and according to Konie, “slammed” her to the ground, both displacing and fracturing her left shoulder.

“After remaining in custody for several hours without charges being filed against her by authorities, she was flown alone to South Carolina where she remained for more than a month before returning to her native New Orleans.”

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