Posted on 06/21/2018 1:53:08 PM PDT by BBell
A video of a Saturday night (June 16) "brawl" on Bourbon Street shows New Orleans Police Department officers "getting whaled on from behind" as they try to arrest the instigators, NOPD Commander Nicholas Gernon said.
Video of the fight, which resulted in a brief hospitalization of one of the officers whose hip was injured, also provides, Gernon said, "a good example of what (officers) face and how they deal with it." The video was taken from a nearby business' surveillance camera.
The fight, which occurred around 11:20 p.m. among a large crowd that appeared to fill the 500 block of Bourbon Street where it occurred, led to the arrest of five people, including one person who was booked on weapons charges. That man, Alejandro Ford, 26, can be seen in the video, Gernon said, pulling a gun from his waistband and then later putting it back there as officers sought to get the situation under control. Four others face battery of an officer and other charges.
"This is what constitutional policing in the 21st century looks like," said NOPD Superintendent Michael Harrison. "After being kicked, after being head-butted, thrown against the ground and becoming aware that a weapon was drawn in this confrontation, these officers still had the presence of mind to realize their training to a positive end."
Gernon and NOPD Superintendent Michael Harrison showed reporters video of the brawl and arrests Wednesday during a press conference at the city's Real Time Crime Center. The facility is where NOPD accesses footage from the city's crime cameras as well as footage from some businesses and private residences that allow the city access to the footage.
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Bourbon Street fight that injured New Orleans police officers
Bourbon Street fight that injured New Orleans police officers
About 2:40 in both videos you see the mounted police show up and the crowd parts. In the one video two guys try to make a break and you can see the horses go after them and attempt to corral them. They train their horses like k 9 dogs.
All the folks involved were from Florida and Mississippi, they came to New Orleans on a party bus.
Is it my imagination but it seems like whenever a big group of blacks gather together violence almost always breaks out?
Just as I thought, it’s the usual suspects.
Juneteenth time, like clockwork.
John Derbyshire "The Talk: Nonblack Version."
I've been imagining the same thing for years...........
We must all have the same imagination.
“Chocolate City”, mmmm mmmm mmmm.
.…….was there for the umpteenth time about 6 months ago and noticed all the cops were State Police and big and tough looking and squared away with uniforms perfect and so on.
They seemed very pleased with their duty and hoping for some fights to me.
There were no little cops or women cops that night at all.
Watching this video, you can see why.
Before the flood, I was on Bourbon Street and saw the mounted police clear a rowdy crowd out. Two horse lined up perpendicular to the street and walked sideways. It was a wonder to behold. Such power! I can only imagine what it was like to withstand a cavalry charge.
A large group of “multiculturalists” getting in a street brawl in Nawlins? Shocking. Just shocking, I tell ya.
That’s Razoo’s, I guess it’s still a scummy club. I worked at another scummy club there one block down in the 90s. Back then the police and bouncers would beat the crap out of trouble makers and leave them bloody on the street.
I read an article in the local paper about about how long it takes to train these horses. it's not like ordering a trained K-9, these horses have excellent qualities but need to trained to be a mounted horse. The officer gets assigned his horse and spends numerous hours with it, sometimes even sleeping in the stable with them. Quite a relationship between officer and the horse develops and the officers chosen are only the best. You mess with their horse there will be hell to pay that's for sure.
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