You can come up with no reason why? Try harder. The answer is pretty black and white, pun intended.
Posted on 04/29/2021 8:21:33 AM PDT by thegagline
The brother of an Alabama-born grandmother who was fatally punched on a French Quarter street last week is trying to understand what motivated her killing, but he expressed relief Wednesday that police had captured a suspect.
“We have no earthly idea why this happened,” said Jeffrey Johnson, brother of Margaret “Jane” Johnson Street. “It won’t bring my sister back, but it helps knowing who did it and that they have him.”
New Orleans police say Johnson Street, 61, got into an argument with Jeremiah Mark, 23, in the 100 block of Royal Street on April 18 at about 7:45 p.m. Details about the argument haven’t been available, but Mark punched Johnson Street in the face, causing her to fall backward and hit her head on the concrete, police wrote in a sworn statement filed in Criminal District Court.
She was taken to University Medical Center, where staffers diagnosed her with a traumatic brain injury. She died April 20, and her death was classified a homicide after an autopsy two days later, police said. Police said they didn’t immediately know Mark’s name, but they released a photo of him to the public and asked for help in identifying him because they wanted to question him. Mark saw the picture in the news media and met with investigators April 22. Police said he told them “he used his hand to push [Street] in the face.”
They booked him with manslaughter, which Louisiana law defines as an unintentional yet unjustifiable killing. Magistrate Court Commissioner Jonathan Friedman set Mark’s bail at $100,000, and he remained in custody Wednesday evening.
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He said his family first feared Johnson Street was attacked during a robbery. But then they realized nothing had been stolen from her.
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You can come up with no reason why? Try harder. The answer is pretty black and white, pun intended.
Getting rid of guns will solve all these senseless killings. Oh wait - he punched her. My bad.
As pedo joe allegedly reminded some people last night in some lecture hall in fortified d.c.
> Details about the argument haven’t been available, <
Interesting that the police released details on how the victim was killed (including a quote from the suspect), but no info as to why.
I went to the French Quarter on a business trip just before Katrina struck. The heat, smell and garbage reminded me of Tijuana in the 80s or parts of Jakarta. Except that people in those places were better behaved.
Not so sure about that. I’d like to know what the argument was about, as Not all crimes between differing races is a hate crime. Regardless of what the argument was about this A-H needs some time behind bars.
There are many websites that keep tabs on this violence. FR does not allow posting from them.
Pretty sure the argument was that she was white. I guess the perp won.
Manslaughter? Should be 2d degree murder — the perp here had more intent to injure than Derek Chauvin, who was just trying to do his job.
We need a data base of all of these black on White murders and crimes.
Shove it in the faces of the "woke" crowd.
Here's your real systemic racism.
Aren’t there additional charges when the victim is elderly?
Biden says her life didn’t matter.
Might that be White Girl Bleed A Lot dawt kahwm? And why is it not allowed?
New Orleans is charming in the cooler months, just maintain situational awareness.
The way to justify eliminating all Whites is to start by giving non-Whites permission to kill Whites without consequence, fiercely condemning Whites who are anywhere in the vicinity when a non-White dies, and by devaluing White lives.
Another Hate Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name....
Hey,My Fellow WHITES: KEEP YOU ELDERLY RELATIVES PROTECTED AT ALLLLLLLL TIIIIIIIIMES!!!!
He’s just an idea....
He was probably pan-handling. It’s rampant in French Quarter
“I bet you $10 I can tell you where you got those shoes”
What we need is Charles Bronson.
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