Posted on 04/18/2010 7:02:46 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
On Friday April 9, 2010, GOP official Allee Bautsch and her boyfriend Joe Brown attended a Republican dinner at Brennan’s restaurant in New Orleans. When they left this event they were followed from the restaurant by a group of five white men who hurled insults at them calling Allee a “little blond bitch” and calling Joe a “f**king f*ggot.” They brutally beat and stomped on the young Republican couple just blocks from the restaurant.
Allee Bautsch suffered a broken leg from the beatdown outside to the SRLC dinner at Brennan’s Restaurant in New Orleans. She had her leg operated on over the weekend and it will take her months to recover. Her boyfriend Joe Brown suffered a broken nose, a broken jaw, and a concussion. They were attacked after leaving the Southern Republican Leadership Conference dinner at Brennan’s Restaurant. (Photo from Jindal’s Facebook Page via The Hayride)
On Saturday, Allee Bautsch’s mother spoke out about the vicious attack. She joined Allee’s friend and said the attackers were leftist protesters. Yahoo reported:
Allee Bautsch’s mother, Della Berning, has now joined a friend of Bautsch’s in telling Yahoo! News that, contrary to what Brown initially told police, Bautsch and Brown do believe that the attackers were a group of political protesters who followed them after they left the event. Their recollection is not conclusive, of course, and they admit to having no knowledge of the attackers’ underlying motivations.
According to Berning, Bautsch and Brown are recovering from their injuries and the trauma of the attack, and so are not speaking directly to the media. However, the couple authorized her to come forward with their account of the attack. Berning told Yahoo! News that she reconfirmed with her daughter each detail of the account she offered via email and phone.
New Orleans, Louisiana police initially dismissed the savage attack on GOP official Allee Bautsch and her boyfriend Joe Brown in the French Quarter. They reported it as a medical call and did not even interview the couple about the brutal beating until Monday. NOLA.com reported:
When news of last weekend’s assault of Republican campaign fundraiser Allee Bautsch and her boyfriend broke on Monday, police logs detailing crimes and complaints reported in the French Quarter that night did not list the attack on the pair.
That’s because the April 9 incident was first labeled a medical call, which meant no police report needed to be written. Indeed, according to the initial report released Friday by New Orleans police, it wasn’t until Monday that a detective was assigned to investigate the incident — in which Bautsch broke her leg and her boyfriend, Joseph Brown, broke his jaw.
Monday was also the day news reports and blogs began chattering about the attack, sometimes laden with the juicy possibility the attackers were anti-Republican protesters.
The initial incident report does not resolve the question of whether Bautsch and Brown were attacked by protesters, who had picketed the restaurant they were in earlier that night.
But the sequence of the NOPD’s response to an attack that left Bautsch with a broken leg and Brown with a fractured jaw and nose, raises questions about why the department didn’t deal with the incident as an assault from the get-go. Subsequent police statements and reports about the incident note that officers did respond to the scene, calling an ambulance to take Bautsch and Brown to the hospital.
NOPD spokesman Bob Young said the explanation is simple: The responding officer didn’t know the extent of the couple’s injuries. That officer knew the couple needed help and was told that Brown had been in a fight, but concentrated on getting them medical assistance, he said.
If the officer had known how badly they were hurt, the case would have been reclassified immediately as some kind of battery, Young said.
The Hayride added this on the politically motivated attack on the young Republican couple leaving a GOP dinner.
Most conservative websites and blogs are avoiding this topic like the plague. Why? Because they are afraid. Liberals scream “racism” without the slightest shred of evidence and the mainstream media scream with them, but conservatives are afraid to speak the truth even when faced with clear and convincing evidence. They are cowards.
This is not a court of law and the Iron Rail Gang isn’t on trial (yet), but the conservative media have acted as though Iron Rail must be convicted beyond a reasonable doubt before they can say a word on the topic. It’s no coincidence that the only major conservative media outlet to have accurately covered the story belongs to Andrew Breitbart, because he actually has some guts. The rest of the conservative media still seem to be afraid that the MSM is going to say something bad about them.
One more thing… The anarchists and leftists outside the SLRC event that night had posted an ominous warning on their website before the GOP officials were attacked. The Hayride reported:
…There was also an eight-page brochure the group put together that did not appear on the Facebook event page for the protest (since removed – there were 209 people who had RSVP’ed for the event and from that roster we found Mauch and Dubinsky), and that brochure was much more ominous. It listed several “Points of Unity,” among them being:
- The SRLC is not welcome in NOLA without a fuss - Recognize healthcare as a basic human right - Oppose police oppression, the prison-industrial complex, and the dominant culture of militarism - Recognize the need for active resistance to confront all forms of oppression, respecting a diversity of tactics
The brochure also contained a map of the five hotels at which SRLC delegates were primarily staying, which is extremely disturbing.
Self defense is not murder.
We have the right to defend ourselves from a brutal attack in this state. Maybe your state doesn’t allow it but Louisiana does. To deny people to use their judgment of when to protect themselves is foolish.
The attempted firebombing was a day or two before the New Orleans beating.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2491676/posts
We know that. And anyone with any intelligence knows nothing will be done about.
If you don’t value your own life enough to protect it, don’t expect anyone else to protect it.
tell Jason Levin what being exposed by the alternative media can do for your bravado as a conservative basher. If someone had pictures of the 5 (unarmed) cowards who attacked this couple, they’d be on the ropes by now.
BTW, despite all the bravado here, these thugs were unarmed. Do the manly men with weapons plan to kill someone before they throw a punch? or after? ah, those poor yoots, I can see and hear the media now. obama would be so pleased.
Being “Breitbarted”- I like idea of preempting this thuggery by being in their faces and exposing it.
Yes. Obama did the same thing recently.
Jindal should stand up and act like a leader. Crickets chirping in Baton Rouge?
Rush mentioned it on his show.
>> The anarchists and leftists outside the SLRC event that night had posted an ominous warning on their website before the GOP officials were attacked.
Premeditated?
You know it was.
How do you know the thugs were not armed? Did you personally frisk them?
pardon me but i never advocated killing them but if 5 men attack me and my wife and I’m by myself I think any weapon close at hand is warranted
am I supposed to take an ass whipping just because I’m outnumbered?
been there done that thanks anyhow
pardon me but i never advocated killing them but if 5 men attack me and my wife and I’m by myself I think any weapon close at hand is warranted
am I supposed to take an ass whipping just because I’m outnumbered?
been there done that thanks anyhow
if you think just because folks are unarmed and you get attacked by 5 thugs and you are with your woman that you don’t have the right to protect her and you by the most adequate means available then good luck
not many DAs would want that case
For so long, the left has mis-characterized us as racists and homophobes. To them, we are as deserving of sympathy and consideration as any hate group such as the KKK, terrorists, criminal organization, etc. Without a doubt, they believe that these young people deserved to be treated this way.
While that is excellent advice, I’d probably feel more comfortable with a camera enabled scope on a firearm for self-defense. They are lucky they are still alive.
Sorry, I am not taking a beat-down at the hands of 5 thugs, especially when if I am down my wife will be helpless.
I’ll pull my pistol and if they keep coming I’ll shoot.
Damn right.
Are you Bruce Lee in your fantasy life? Do you really think those Steve Seagal movies are reality?
Five attackers will quickly wear out anybody except maybe a UFC champion. Then he goes down under the boots, and that is often fatal and almost always leads to concussion with permanent lasting brain and other injury.
But you have at it, Mr. Fantasy Bruce Lee.
For me, I’ll shoot, and no grand jury will disagree.
Good point.
When it’s five men against one man and a woman, boots are weapons, and there are plenty of other weapons besides firearms. This story is a perfect illustration why people need to carry firearms at all times where ever legal. Especially in NOLA and especially at any kind of political or other like event.
I agree with all people who say this is only going to get worse.
Much worse, esp. with the “flash mob” phenom where happy criminals will call a cohort of buddies to help.
I am waiting for the first “flash home invasion” report. It’s going to happen.
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