Posted on 02/20/2014 7:51:50 PM PST by bkopto
According to New Orleans Police Department reports, on Friday morning at around 2:26 a.m., a 32-year-old male was riding his bicycle down Esplanade Avenue when a man stepped in front of his path, at N. Robertson Street. When the cyclist slowed to avoid a collision, a second man, wielding a baseball bat, jumped out from behind a parked car and began beating the biker, fracturing his jaw.
Police officers responding to that attack encountered a near-identical scenario that unfolded 22 minutes after the first, just a few blocks away on Esplanade toward Rampart Street. The second victim, 25, suffered serious head injuries, including a fractured skull, police said.
"It's unspeakable," said Nicolas Lambert, a Treme resident who said he rides on Esplanade daily, though never at night.
Although the attacks occurred on Friday morning, NOPD did not release any information on the incidents until Monday evening. The two attacks were left off of the daily report from the department detailing violent crimes throughout the city on Friday and Monday. NOPD spokesperson Garry Flot said although the incidents were classified as aggravated batteries and a baseball bat is considered a dangerous weapon, the attacks could have been left off the log because the assaults did not involve a gun or a knife.
Still, the nature of the attacks stunned residents, even seasoned cyclists.
"If you ask me, it's bad," said Tim Eskew, a mechanic at Bicycle Michael's on Frenchman Street. "Is it bad? It's bad."
But Eskew, who has worked at the shop for 20 years, said residents shouldn't be frightened to ride their bicycles, as long as they take necessary safety measures. Eskew said he's a friend of the second victim, whom he called an experienced cyclist.
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Enough of this and bikers will begin to fight back.
I didn’t doubt for one second it was the Amish.
almost never do they include a description of the criminals, just their clothing.
There should be room in all but the most abbreviated spandex bike gear...for a mace..a stun gun ..etc..
That would be racist, dontcha know.
” residents shouldn’t be frightened to ride their bicycles, as long as they take necessary safety measures.”
Carry a freakin’ sword!
If you were a politician and wanted to serve longer than term limits permitted, wouldn’t you try to perpetrate a racial struggle so you could declare martial law, suspend the laws permitting elections and continue to serve forever?
It would seem easy enough to field plain clothes police decoys... and even announce that this was going to be done. Vigilantes are officially frowned on, but this is a good example of why vigilantes came into being.
Didn't Zimmerman already get this guy?
I think a Ruger LCP would be a good modern reincarnation of the concept.
There is no amount of experience that you can have to avoid a determined attacker. All you can do is avoid the area altogether.
That’s ONE possible form of chaos such a one might choose to foment. But I don’t think Barack Obama even needs to do much, if this is his plan. His sycophants are doing it well for him. Actually, Obama looks a whole lot like a figurehead for a Democrat party that hates black people as much as they did in antebellum times. Mouths a liberal enough line, but doesn’t have the spunk and energy of an actual liberal firebrand. Two-bit community organizer. Has to be choreographed and have apologias made, by others. I can’t find it in myself to heap a lot of blame on Obama. He’s symbolic. Dull Joe would probably find himself compliant in the same maelstrom if Obama was impeached.
Only his brother.
Where’s Critical Ass when you need them???
Do you mean, maybe, Critical Mass?
Busy eating bean sprouts and arugula, I guess.
You need a crew of armed bikers to migrate to the area. The word of a few dead perps littering the sidewalk would get around the hood pretty fast.
Harley-type bikers and Schwinn-type bikers aren’t the same, usually :-)
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