Posted on 07/01/2017 2:14:13 PM PDT by BBell
A mentally ill man who spent nearly four hours dangling from a Gallier Hall flagpole on Saturday (July 1), shutting down a downtown section of St. Charles Avenue, finally ended his disturbance around 1 p.m. and was arrested by New Orleans police.
The unidentified man had snarled holiday weekend traffic on one of the city's most well-known streets, after harnessing himself about 25-30 feet above the hall's marble base around 9:15 a.m. and threatening to hang himself or jump. New Orleans police closed St. Charles Avenue between Poydras and Julia streets to all auto, pedestrian and streetcar traffic during the standoff.
The avenue opened again at 1:05 p.m., minutes after the man was handcuffed and driven away in the back of an NOPD cruiser.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
I have been saying for years we need prison reform and mental health reform in this country.
*shrug* just some street entertainment for Essence Fest. Crazy people on the streets of N.O. isn’t news; hell, even DEAD crazy people are hardly noticed. You’d have to be insane to be out in 94, frying, degrees anyway.
He looks White. Why didn’t they just shoot him? Nobody would have complained.
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