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Air France book your business class tickets now at afrance.co.uk Fred Johnson at left the

hide hotel the morning Africa Trina in the cab. He had thought he'd get right back home

to keep planning his annual Labor Day parade. But he didn't get that far. The streets were flooded.

What are you thinking then?

Fred knew the parade was off but he didn't know what was going to happen next. So he headed back

to the hotel. Turns out he was heading right into the heart of the action. The Hyatt became an

operating base for the whole city government in response. Fire and police, the National Guard,

FEMA, the Army Corps, the hotel manager even turned over his living quarters for the mayor to use.

So when we get back in the hotel we sit in the lobby and the police chief run in.

Eddie Compass was the chief of police of the New Orleans Police Department. He knew Fred from around

the community. He said Fred Fred come here come here come here. I need your help I need your help.

I know how you work in a community. I need your help. I need your help. So he's shaking me.

He's got me by my two shoulders and he's talking to me and he's shaking the shit out of me.

Compass was worried the Hyatt had supplies. He told Fred that he thought looters were coming to break in.

And I don't know something happened. What he's saying there's a group of men that's coming the

word on the street is that the Hyatt has everything you want. Let's go loot the Hyatt.

He said listen they coming they coming I need you to go get all the men you could get.

It was a strange moment a time when the normal rules were in flux. A time when Fred Johnson,

a man wearing summer shoes and a khaki kangle and possessing no actual policing experience,

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