Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here these bar owners and patrons better watch out if you come in contact with the jack boots in new orleans you will not might end up like this
Posted on 10/13/2005 1:40:53 PM PDT by abb
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — French Quarter bar owners say the Big Easy's soul can never be restored if a midnight-to-6 a.m. curfew continues to be enforced, so they plan to challenge it the only way New Orleans knows how: with a party.
Jim Monaghan said his Molly's at the Market bar will return Friday to its normal operating hours of 10 a.m. to 6 a.m. regardless of a curfew police have enforced more aggressively over the past week or so. His goal, he said, is to demonstrate that New Orleans is on the mend and it's open for business.
"We'll all go to jail. It's an act of civil disobedience," Monaghan said.
He's helping lead a campaign among other businesses in the heart of the tourist district, which depends heavily on revelers partying into the wee hours, to defy the curfew.
Sweeping Bourbon Street and other French Quarter thoroughfares of pedestrians and shuttering bars at midnight — something that has happened in recent days — sends the wrong signal, owners say. Several people have been arrested for violating the curfew, police said.
"It's a slap in the face," said Madeline Schwartz, manager of several Bourbon Street clubs and bars. French Quarter bars, particularly those on Bourbon, cater to the after-hours crowds; before Hurricane Katrina, some never closed.
"We're trying to come back, but this is going to devastate us," Schwartz said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Anybody that now wants to hang around the French Quarter even before midnight is absolutely crazy.
The city has done nothing to help businesses and residents before and during the storm and flood.
Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here these bar owners and patrons better watch out if you come in contact with the jack boots in new orleans you will not might end up like this
The old guy was the thug...facts coming out.
Yeah, I grew up less than two hours from NO. We never got there before midnight.
Your statement was always true, not just after Katrina.
QUOTE: "The old guy was the thug...facts coming out."
The only claim I have seen by the cops is that he was really drunk (although no test was ever done) and that he staggered and bumped into a police horse...?
Not too sure when that became a crime punishable by instant cop beating?
Likewise it does not explain why other very upset innocent witnesses were cuffed and threatened on the scene???
Most of those "thugs" have been on the bar owners payroll for years. They ain't going to "bruse" their paymaster.
Sorry - but is was "more" that just the "reporter" that was an eye-witness to the events:
Posted on Tue, Oct. 11, 2005
Locals witness New Orleans police beating
ERICA RODRIGUEZ
Herald Staff Writer
MANATEE - Getting shoved around, handcuffed, manhandled and witnessing a police beating - these are the memories two young hurricane relief workers from Manatee County say they took away from Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Saturday night.
After about a month of volunteer work in areas hit hard by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Manatee County residents Calvin Briles and Mike Monaghan decided to take it easy in the Big Easy for an evening.
The two men, program consultants for the Volunteer Center of Manatee County, had spent the day buying chain saws and delivering them to volunteer reception centers to aid in rebuilding what Katrina destroyed. Afterward they went out to dinner and had a couple of drinks on Bourbon Street on Oct. 8.
While strolling along the strip, Briles and Monaghan noticed a scuffle.
Briles said they saw New Orleans police officers punching, kicking and kneeing a man to the ground and another official shoving an Associated Press Television News producer who was taping the beating. On Monday, two police officers accused in the beating of Robert Davis, 64, and a third accused of grabbing and shoving the AP journalist pleaded not guilty to battery, according to The AP.
"We couldn't believe it," said Briles, a 21-year-old University of South Florida student and self-described humanitarian from Palmetto. "We saw the man being beat and the cameraman pushed. . . . It was just a bad situation."
Briles and Monaghan were not bystanders for long.
When law enforcement officials tried to clear spectators out of the area, Briles said, "I want to tell somebody about this."
He said that's when a man wearing a U.S. Customs vest grabbed him, threw him against a dark blue Chevy Impala, pressed his head against the hood and told him, "It's none of your business."
"I was just manhandled like I've never been before," Briles said, adding that another unidentified official also pushed him around. "They wouldn't let me say anything."
Monaghan, a 22-year-old USF student and Bradenton native, said he was shocked when he saw his friend thrown against the Chevy.
Monaghan and Briles - both former presidents of ManaTeens, a youth program of the Volunteer Center of Manatee County - have known each other since sixth grade.
"I was scared to death - didn't know what really to do," Monaghan said. "I wanted to make sure they weren't going to punch and hurt Calvin."
Monaghan said he saw Briles' cell phone hit the ground as he was pressed against the car and handcuffed.
Monaghan said when he bent over to pick up the phone, a police horse "nudged" his head with its snout and an unidentified official grabbed him from behind and asked him why he hit the horse.
He said he hadn't hit the horse but that the official handcuffed him, kicked his legs open and searched his pockets.
"I knew what was happening was all a bunch of bull," Monaghan said.
He said he was let go shortly after, but Briles remained face down on the pavement.
Briles said officials listed a handful of charges he would face, including impeding a federal investigation. Still, no one read him his rights, he said.
After checking into Briles' record, the officials let him go. Briles said they told him things would have gone less smoothly if he had a criminal history.
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/12869921.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
"The guy stumbled into the horse, was belligerent, appeared intoxicated liquor/drugs according to FBI in area, and several business owners who observed."
---Friends of mine who went to Mardi Gras a few years back watched cops whoop up on someone who got TOO CLOSE to a horse. I'm sorry, but I don't buy 'stumbled into a horse.' Maybe 'going to see a man about a horse,' but who misses a Morgan and can't get out of the way unless the cops are suddenly stopped dead in the pedestrian traffic?
"Two police officers tried to contain him according to FBI agent, he resisted arrest, FBI guy went to help making it look like the old guy was being outnumbered. The "Innocent witness" was a news reporter interfered with police action by grabbing a police officer and spinning him around and pushing his Press Card in the officers face..police officer then forcefully had to move the press guy out of the way. For factual outline (my memory only so good), please watch the News tonight..Everyone still wants the old guy to be "right" because its more PC..but thats not what the facts are showing."
---I'm pretty sure the cops are not wrong in arresting this guy, but I also know that NOLA cops have a reputation for brutality. I'm not surprised at all that some presstitute has caused this brouhaha...it isn't as if it would be tough for them to find a situation that could be manipulated given the police there.
You mean they enforce laws? What a concept!
It seems to me that tourism, will sink... big time.
The old guy was the thug...facts coming out
That is NO excuse for this type of conduct. It makes those soldiers convicted of similar actions in Iraq seem almost childish.
I have zero sympathy for those LEO's involved in this action.
Lets see now:
NOPD looting - check
NOPD stealing Caddys - check
NOPD ghost payroll - check
NOPD beats stuffing out of old man - check
Yup. I'd say thugs pretty well sums it up...
The LOPD that did the looting also were not the ones staying there and DOING THEIR JOBS..like the OVERWORKED OFFICERS putting up with crap from THUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Old age is no excuse for BAD BEHAVIOUR!!
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