Would Blackwater Get Away with that in America?

Reacting to the most recent killing of civilians by Blackwater USA in Iraq, Baghdad resident Halim Mashkoor told AP Television News:

"We see the security firms ... doing whatever they want in the streets. They beat citizens and scorn them..." "If such a thing happened in America or Britain, would the American president or American citizens accept it?"

Yes. It happend with Blackwater in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Sources:

Diplomatic convoys curtailed in Iraq, Associated Press, September 18, 2007.


Overkill: Feared Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans, DemocracyNow, September 12th, 2005.