Posted on 01/16/2006 2:04:47 PM PST by Ellesu
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — "Knuckleheads" are to blame for the shootings that wounded three people just after a parade organized to show unity and support for New Orleans' rebuilding, Mayor Ray Nagin said Monday at a Martin Luther King Day ceremony.
In the face of the devastation still remaining, four months after Hurricane Katrina hit, people still came together to have a float-less "second-line" parade and have a good time, Nagin said.
Framing his speech as a conversation in which he asked King's opinion about what has happened to New Orleans, Nagin said he told the slain civil rights leader: "And then knuckleheads pull out some guns and start firing into the crowd. And they injured three people."
"He said, `I definitely wouldn't like that,'" Nagin said.
The Social Aid & Pleasure Club All-Star Second-Line had featured numerous clubs marching to support New Orleans' renewal and their own role in the city's future. Thousands of people, some of whom had come from Houston and Atlanta to join in, had gathered on Broad Street to watch.
The shootings occurred shortly after the parade ended Sunday afternoon in an area of businesses and homes which are nearly all still empty because of the floods that followed Hurricane Katrina's landfall on Aug. 29.
Patrol officers heard gunfire and found a 34-year-old man with multiple wounds. Minutes later, they heard more shots, which had wounded an 18-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man, both in the leg.
No arrests had been made Monday, said Officer Juan Barnes, a New Orleans police spokesman. He said police will not release the victims' names, and he did not know what prompted the shootings or whether the same person shot all three victims.
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This is so sad on so many levels.
As a fellow Bay Stater...yes, it is Mumbles down there.
"chocolate"
Now, not only will we be banned from using the 'N' word, we won't be able to say the 'C' word. This restraint will be added, although Mr. Nagin just added this to my vocabulary.
Don't call me white. I'm not an albino.
"Don't call me white. I'm not an albino."
White chocolate?
knuckleheads or rapper gangstas?
Louis "God lives on a UFO and is going to take black men home" Farrakan still beats them both.
It's those crazy kids today, with their rock n' roll and their malt shops and their shooting indiscriminately into crowds.
Is the Knuckleheads the name of a new gang? How does he know that the Knuckleheads were involved? Did they flash their gang hand signals before they started shooting?
Not Bush?
Nagin's going to be in BIG trouble with the dems now.
Knuckleheads might be the new DNC codeword for republicans...
Man, a lot of good quotes coming out of Nagin. Wotta knucklehead.
What a relief...looks like NO residents are finally making their way home from Texas!
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