Has anyone seen this man?
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 ...
NOLA is still a ‘rat city, isn’t it?
You are complaining that Jindal is not screaming and hollering! Did Ross or W rant and rave before executing the above actions?
There were others that barely escaped from this mob. Read some of the on-the-scene accounts.
Weren’t Govs Perry and Barbour there with Jindal? Apparently this crowd of protestors were there in large enough numbers to disrupt the area with their mobs.
It is more than throwing a conservative under the bus.
It is a question and examination of how we as conservatives and how conservative leaders respond to scenarios? Can we respond? Are we hand-cuffed to a path to RINO-city? Are we being careful to review all the facts before responding?
This was not a random cement bag through a bus window- real people were specifically hurt. Something happened. It needs to be address more affirmatively.
http://lincolnparishnewsonline.wordpress.com/
Louisiana GOP Chair Villere: “Protesters came after us, but we managed to get away in a cab.”
Yep. And I bet while Ross was silently making his plans over the weeks and months, you were yelling and screaming about Ross the wobbly had no concern for his employees ....
Duh. I live just a few miles from the scene. You sir, are safely behind your keyboard.
Maybe the attacker(s) is related to someone important?
Or, maybe someone politically powerful in New Orleans was involved directly in the demonstrations? The Iron Rail anarchist group is affiliated with Democrat-controlled organizations - who among Democrat heavies in the state would have kids or relatives among the activists?
The NOPD is behaving more like cops in a small southern or rural town than police of a huge international shipping port! This reeks of political influence and protection.
Jindal became governor of LA in 2008. Katrina was in 2005.
Yes. It is about trying to destroy good politicians just because you have your own agenda. Thanks.
Govs. Perry and Barbour wouldn't have been informed at the same time as Jindal as to what had happened to Jindal’s aide. Like the rest of us, they were probably waiting for Governor Jindal to step forward and condemn this violence with a promise to thoroughly investigate the incident and why there was such a long delay before an investigation actually started.
It happened on Jindal’s watch and he hasn't shown leadership.
(Democrats, of course; and OTOH. . .are concerned with their 'fee speech' only; and so at least we know their reasons.)
Am wondering 'also'; if there is not a fear that this 'failure' in NO will be tagged as Jindal's. Or that if a bigger deal is made of this; and 'Business' feels they are 'threatened' - by any diminishment of city 'image'; there could be some 'blowback' against Jindal.
Whatever the case; it seems clear, at least, that there is some bad rationale at work.
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2010/04/17/saturdays-new-orleans-gop-beatdown-update.php
Saturday’s New Orleans GOP Beatdown Update
“Duh. I live just a few miles from the scene. You sir, are safely behind your keyboard.”
I lived in the French Quarters when I was young. Now, can I say what I think?
Has anyone seen this man?
Seen or not Jindal by his position as governor may not can investigate the Police Department but as Governor he certainly can bring pressure to bear upon some state agency that would trigger an indepth investigation. His silence speaks volumes about his methods or so it seems to me. Maybe he’s doing something behind the scenes but I would question that at this stage.
“....Bautsch broke her leg and her boyfriend, Joseph Brown, broke his jaw.”
I’m pretty sure someone else did the leg and jaw breaking.
This reporter makes it sound like they were involved in an accident.
In my interview with GOP Chair Villere yesterday, he opined that Jindal was fearful of the bad publicity for New Orleans. I told him it was a bit late for that.
I never said you couldn't. I just implied that you shouldn't go around implying someone is ignorant just because they don't think exactly like you.
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