Posted on 04/17/2010 12:13:31 PM PDT by kristinn
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Based on the personality shown in your posts, I will second that! I do have my standards.
LOL! You're a cool troll, why don't you just join us....;)
Thanks for the belly laugh!
It was fun for awhile but now I totally resent your false accusations. I have done ten times the work on this issue that you have. You sit thousands away and criticize.
I did, quite clearly, and so did others. The fact that you haven't acknowledged it until now reveals your dishonest mindset.
Kenny Bunk said: "Jindal should have been at their side in the hospital swearing to reporters that the attackers would be tracked down to the ends of the Earth and shot like mad dogs!"
It's pretty clear to anyone who can read a simple sentence what kind of swearing Kenny Bunk meant. Obviously not cursing. You had to alter his wording from "to" to "at" to try and spin it didn't you?
I didn't know you had to throw a conservative under the bus to join your club.
It’s the Ultimate Flame......I didn’t write it, but I love the content.
From the Waterford, CT, Republican-American blog:
http://blogs.rep-am.com/worth_reading/2010/04/16/nothing-to-see-here-4/
“We usually don’t favor such comparisons, but consider: Suppose a top aide to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a black official, had been beaten, apparently by white Tea Party protesters? Would you get 22 hits on Yahoo! and AP briefs in the nation’s biggest newspapers? Accounts would be written by staff writers, not processed by wire editors. Consider the wholly unproven allegations that Tea Partyers shouted the “N” word, and one even spit on a black congressman outside the Capitol before a major vote on Obamacare. Coverage of this incident has been ubiquitous; yet no one has been able to isolate a single “N-word” utterance from audio and video recordings of the incident, even though six-figure reward money awaits anyone who can produce such evidence.
Trouble is, left-wing protesters beating up aides to Republican politicians fall well outside the narrative of right-wing violence the media are so hot to project.”
“About” the Republican-American:
http://www.rep-am.com/about_us/republican_american/
“The Republican American
In an era of chain ownership, the Republican-American is one of Connecticut’s few independent daily newspapers and has been locally owned and operated by the same family for more than a century.
The Waterbury American was the first newspaper published in Waterbury, Conn. Starting as a weekly on December 14, 1844, it went to daily publication on May 22, 1863. The Waterbury American stood alone in its field until 1881, when two weeklies were established: the Democrat and the Republican. The Republican became a daily in 1884 and established a Sunday edition in 1907. The Democrat followed in 1887, but competition proved overwhelming and it printed its final edition in 1946.
The Republican was sold to its present ownership, the Pape family, in 1901, when William Jamieson Pape bought it in partnership with Gordon Lathrop. Within nine years he became sole owner. He bought the Waterbury American in 1922, merged it with the Republican, and remained editor and publisher until his death on January 29, 1961. During his tenure, the Republican was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for its unraveling of Waterbury’s political scandals. For many years, the Republican published mornings and the American afternoons until the two were combined into the morning Republican-American in April, 1990.
In 1952, the Pape family bought Waterbury’s landmark Union Station, built by the New Haven Railroad in 1909. Six years later, after considerable renovations, it opened as the newspaper’s headquarters. The building’s signature tower, at 240 feet, is one of the tallest clock towers in New England. It is modeled after the Torre de Mangia on the Palazzo Pubblico (City Hall) in Siena, Italy. The clock, now electrically operated, is the largest tower clock in New England and one of the largest in the country. Its bell, installed in 1916, is sometimes better heard on the city’s hills than on the nearby streets, both because of its height and the traffic noise.
In addition to its Pulitzer, the Republican-American continues to win numerous awards for its writing, photography and public affairs coverage, including the New England Newspaper Association’s Newspaper of the Year award for 2005.”
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Sounds like a decent little newspaper!
What is conservative about throwing your staff under the bus, after she is beaten in the extreme, in order to protect the reputation of New Orleans? A reputation that is characterized by cover ups and corruption. I guess by covering this up Jindal is protecting that reputation.
To question any of our leaders is not to throw them under the bus. This is dangerous thinking. We should definitely be able to challenge our own leaders, when there is a case to. Look, we're not talking about some public town hall where people are unfairly trashing on Jindal. This is a conservative discussion, questioning where he is, what he has and hasn't said and done.
That should be allowed. And it shouldn't be pigeon holed as throwing someone under the bus.
We need accountability in this nation, not some weak loyalty without substantiation. Look, I hope Bobby Jindal works this out - but so far on this, wholly unimpressive. And further, to the lack of commentary by the other pubbie leaders.
I'm disappointed and I'm saying so, and I'm not throwing anyone ‘under the bus.’
It's obvious you don't want to move on from this topic. I was having too much fun with your grammar advice and what with being called a 'sweetie' and learning the internet on qvc or whatever, not to mention the numerous other personal slurs against me before I made that post ...
Common CW, no one mentioned conservatives until now.....do you really hate a bunch of people waving flags and asking for lower taxes?
Whatever. I didn’t slur you so what do I care about that? Still waiting for you to explain your lie though.
I know the difference in questioning and throwing under the bus. I have also been around long enough to know that many of those doing the pushing have their own agenda and their own 'dogs in the hunt'.
I called Jindal's office on this issue. Am I 100% happy with the publicity that this case is getting? No, I am not. But, I am not ready to tar and feather Jindal at this time. Is Jindal 'My Man'? No, I have posted in the past that he is not ready to be president. Do I believe that he is a good conservative and worthy of our support? Yes.
I did explain it.
NOPeD strikes again
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gbrNMwrHU1SUfGESZGGy0IfDUWTAD9F4C5BO0
GOP victim unsure if violent attack was political
NEW ORLEANS — The boyfriend of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s chief fundraiser says he’s unsure whether protesters were responsible for attacking the couple April 9 outside a Republican event in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Joseph Brown told police protesters were outside Brennan’s restaurant during the Louisiana Republican Party event. But most had left about an hour before Brown and 25-year-old Allee Bautsch left the restaurant.
According to a police report obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, the 29-year-old Brown said a group of men yelled obscenities and taunted them, but he heard nothing suggesting the attack was politically motivated. Bautsch suffered a broken leg in the attack.
The police report does not say what the protest was about.
You better smile when you say that! Down here is cajun country we get our first gun before we learn to walk.
We'll get along just fine then.....armed people are peaceful people......;)
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