Posted on 04/15/2010 11:33:27 AM PDT by abb
I just had a very interesting and somewhat confusing conversation with New Orleans Police Department Public Information Officer Bob Young.
Mr. Young confirmed to me that the New Orleans police had indeed taken statements from both of the victims, Jindal aide Allee Bautsch and her boyfriend, Joe Young. He confirmed that in those statements, the victims reported that their assailants had indeed hurled “insults” at them, and the “insults” were, and I quote, “of a political nature”. Describing the entire attack, he went on to say “it was of a political nature”. I then repeated what he told me, and he confirmed it as accurate. I had a witness on the call, Mark Harvey of the Snooper Report, who can confirm this. However, for reasons I’m not clear about, when I pressed him again later, he began to backtrack a bit, perhaps with some cya in regard to his superiors, and he said that he was not authorized to give an official statement about the contents of the “insults”, and for the record, it had not officially been made clear to him what the contents of those “insults” were. He ended up going from “yes, it was of a political nature” to “I’m not sure”. Mark, an established blogger, was as baffled as I.
My read on this: he caught himself talking out of school in a relaxed opening with me, and then backtracked before he got his ass in trouble.
He then informed me that the lead detective on the case was one Detective Nick Gernin, a crack officer, one of the very best in the 8th Division, the Division assigned to cover the French Quarter. Detective Gernin had told him yesterday that he had “a couple of hours” of surveillance tapes to review last night. Mr. Young told me that the Detective wasn’t in the office yet, but that as soon as he was, he would get a report from him as to the contents of those tapes, and he would call me with whatever their was to report about them.
Mr. Young also told me that there was no other new information to report on the case at this time, and that there were no named suspects on anybody’s mind or list, yet.
Developing…
Why are they trying to kill the story?
I tend to agree with you here and it’s not the first time it has happened. Don’t visit the Daily Caller much though..so don’t have much to say about that site.
Problem with that is that the media would never retract it once they put it out.
I don’t know. Jindal has been downplaying the story. Some are following his lead, others are more interested in appearing “acceptable” rather than digging down and getting the story right.
What about the ‘Watch’ in the picture? It’s on the ground near the cop’s foot. Probably dropped by the attacker during the scuffle and loaded with his DNA.
I would hope they have it as evidence, but being the NOPD...
Ok.
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Thanks. The punk in the audio protests the anarchists’ innocence too much.
The MSM will have to report it when the police report becomes available. It’s too hot to ignore now.
Boy, are you ever the optimist :-)
I'm not sure what the heck is going on with this story. But I do know that Pat Dollard is a close associate with Andrew Breitbart and if there the full story is uncovered, you can bet that Breitbart's sites will let in the sunshine.
Regarding the alleged photo, I sure hope somebody is doing some fact-checking on that to confirm the individuals pictured... looks like a typical drunk in NOLA scene...
>> But I do know that Pat Dollard is a close associate with Andrew Breitbart and if there the full story is uncovered, you can bet that Breitbart’s sites will let in the sunshine.
That is the best thing I have heard about this all week, and I concur.
Breitbart’s talks at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville rocked.
The Chocolate City strikes again...
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