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I can't blame the police for not wanting to hide behind the aegis of martial law.

Residents weren't the only people raiding abandoned stores.

Two police officers stood guard outside a drug store on Canal Street as Ritz-Carlton Hotel employees packed large laundry bins full of medication, snack foods and bottled water.

"This is for the sick," Officer Jeff Jacob said. "We can commandeer whatever we see fit, whatever is necessary to maintain law."

Legal? Yes.

Ethical? Haven't thought that out, although it looks like one of those inversions when going from individual to government.