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 ...
It’s late for me, so I’ll let someone else start a new post on this development:
“Allee Bautschs mother, Della Berning, has now joined a friend of Bautschs 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.”
The Yahoo story is incredibly snide and insulting in begrudging the info, so I’ll link to Hayride where y’all can get the skinny and which also links to the Yahoo News article.
http://thehayride.com/2010/04/the-brennans-beatdown-piecing-together-a-story
The case is being investigated and there are reports on the local news almost daily. I guess it is so easy to sit behind a computer monitor in Washington (or California, Maine, Florida, etc.) and complain because your expectations haven’t been met. Best I can understand it, Jindal is supposed to be out there marching around with somebody’s head on a pike. Suppose there would then be those that would criticize him for giving special attention to a crime because it was a fundraiser of his. Oh, well.
LOL!!!!!
Most people who live even closer to the scene are totally clueless.
What's your point?
It was not a simple street mugging. Most of us know that.
How do we ger the US attorney's office involved in this RICO racial hate crime?
Clearly the civil right of these victims of racial storm troopers (Can't we stop all the hate speech?) were violated big time.
Meanwhile, isolated victims of police "force" scattered across the country are covered 24/7... even, bafflingly, on Fox... Don't get me started on Geraldo "Aid-the enemy" Doofus...
I firmly believe this was a crime based on the victims’ participation in the Republican fundraiser. Not so sure it’s racial. The only described perpetrator per news accounts was a skinny, dirty, pony-tailed white dude. These are most likely union thugs and day-workers who made a few bucks by being warm bodies at the protest.
IF NOPD can find the individuals who perpetrated this crime, and they give up whoever paid them to be there, and it can be proved that the paying entity encouraged this type of crime, then they’d have something that might be prosecuted under RICO.
RICO, as far as I understand it, requires a criminal enterprise, multiple crimes, oh, say, like ACORN. The prosecutors would have to prove that the perpetrators of this crime were part of a larger entity or entities who engaged in criminal activity, mafia style. It’s a very difficult thing to prosecute. I don’t see THIS DOJ even investigating far enough to prove a damned thing. And that’s the pity.
My point was to the poster. He got it.
“The case is being investigated and there are reports on the local news almost daily. I guess it is so easy to sit behind a computer monitor in Washington (or California, Maine, Florida, etc.) and complain because your expectations havent been met. Best I can understand it, Jindal is supposed to be out there marching around with somebodys head on a pike. Suppose there would then be those that would criticize him for giving special attention to a crime because it was a fundraiser of his. Oh, well.”
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Jindall sent out his press secretary to address the savage beat down of one of his aides after a Republican event protested by leftists and anarchists. I like Jindal in many ways, but I don’t think he showed good leadership instincts here.
You say, “I guess it is so easy to sit behind a computer monitor in Washington” - OR Louisiana, eh? LOL!
“I live just a few miles from the scene.”
Right. What does this have to do with evaluating leadership? No more comments about maobama from you Coldwater! You live too far away. Only those inside the beltway need say anything, and those of us across the fruited plains ought just to shut up.
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