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 ...
You will also see there are plenty of alcoves and such in the SC Bldg where the perps could hide and lay in wait.
police logs detailing crimes and complaints reported in the French Quarter that night did not list the attack on the pair.
“I know the difference in questioning and throwing under the bus.”
Don’t you think we do as well? I assure you, I have no ‘dogs in this hunt’ either and am simply commenting on the circumstances and responses, or lack thereof. I live near Seattle (you probly figure that one out!)
The 8th district police station is in the next block or two, right? This reporter has the crime and courts beat for the TP, you’d think she might be a little more suspect of NOPD with all of her coverage so far. Tis not a good time for the force these days. 16 more days of Nagin and his Chief.
http://connect.nola.com/user/lmaggi/index.html
There’s gotta be some pics of the beatings on those
camera’s,,,
I read on one link that it took place at an iron gate
in that fence that surrounds the court house,,,
In this day and age those places have some really good
high-rez stuff,,,
Even I-20 is covered where it goes through here,,,
They can freeze-frame and zoom in on anybody on that road...
Note also that this is one of the most heavily traveled areas in the French Quarter, an area that street types don’t frequent. The Brennan family have quite a bit of clout in the town.
But also recall the time of the attack - about 10:30 pm - was near shift change, so likely all the cops were scarfing up coffee and donuts in the station house.
I’ve been thinking the same thing for quite a while.
He’s not constitutionally qualified.
And he’s not up to the job. He’s a fairly decent governor, but no way he should be POTUS.
Well, reporters report what their editors tell them to. And true, the NOPD is getting a lot of heat lately from the TP regarding the Katrina/Danziger Bridge murders. So maybe this front-page story will “encourage” the NOPD to take action.
But it took us all week to get the story to the front page of the TP. So that tells me they didn’t want to cover it at all. I’ve been emailing the editor (Jim Amoss) all week and beating him over the head.
To face reality, however, IF the perps were out-of-town “agitators,” they are long gone from the area. Likely some of the local kids who were protesting (IIRC, mostly UNO students) could be questioned and maybe they will tell.
But if they’re wannabe anarchists, they’ll lawyer up and clam up.
Just my thinking, which is of course subject to large error...
It does seem as if the Iron Rail bunch (Trust-afarians) glomed on to the “Keep Big Charity” hospital and UNO cuts protests. Seems all the videos from that bunch have been pulled and they are awfully quiet. Maybe Jim Letten’s office should take a little trip over to the Marigny.
Exactly what I called on Gov. Jindal to do Thursday.
http://lincolnparishnewsonline.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/is-nopd-fit-to-investigate-french-qtr-assault/
Is NOPD Fit to Investigate French Qtr Assault?
Jindal is a lightweight.
He should use the power of the pulpit...
In a word....No. Sadly, no.
broke her leg and her boyfriend, Joseph Brown, broke his jaw....
She broke her own leg and he broke his own jaw...typical media...
Any word from Jindal? Where is his face in the camera?
Holy crap!
This young pair beat themselves against the concrete sidewalk and against some passerbies' boots!
Leg broken in five places, broken nose, broken jaw...
Either that or they were viciously attacked by...
Extraterrestrials.
This may be a good place to comment on the PC mother of the female victim. She is not only brainless, but a coward and a mother I would not wish on my worst enemy.
She is so terrified of "upsetting" the group responsible, she has done everything short of blaming her daughter of beating herself within an inch of her own life.
Uhm, she did manage to get Megyn and a guest pretty riled up about this.
Crickets from the rest of the SRM.
Ultra smart, very engaging when you speak with him, a pretty darn good governor, and a staunch defender of the 2nd Amendment.
“Ultra smart, very engaging when you speak with him, a pretty darn good governor, and a staunch defender of the 2nd Amendment.”
OK. And you’re fine with him being behind the scenes about these anarchist turds that savaged his aide? Do you think that was a good move?
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