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 ...
>> Jindal became governor of LA in 2008. Katrina was in 2005. <<
Not a reason, just an excuse. Let the bashing continue!
Even in the event that there is no political motivation for this incident, and the motivation is class related as this article infers, Obama’s agenda of using class envy as a tool is a top reason for a Republican governor to be out front and demanding that the incident be investigated and covered in the media. The media and the police have now deflected suspicion to class envy as a motive.
The fact that scruffy ex-hippies aren’t attacking well dressed women, without robbing or raping them, in locations other than near Republican meetings establishes that there was political motivation.
Even if the article's author, Laura Maggi, wasn't attempting to mislead and wrote it that way out of incompetence, it still passed muster with her editor. It's reasonable to conclude that this wording is exactly what the Times-Picayune wanted. The editorial agenda--to downplay the severity and nature of the incident for political reasons--was more important than accurate and honest reporting.
They may as well just put up a marquee at the NOLA police stations saying “Go For It Leftist Thugs - Open Season On All Who Disagree With Leftist Political Policies”.
“I think it even hurts his Presidential chances.”
Isn’t he ineligible? I don’t think he meets natural born citizenship requirement.
Lying?! By the NO police and/or government?! I’m SHOCKED!!! /sarc
Surely hope you are right, and that he has done exactly that.
True. Call the NOPD, NO tourist center, CofC, mayor's office, parish and Jindal's office and write a letter to the TP. I've just got one left from the list above. it would have been done but I took time off for this thread.
Liberals are cowards, but dangerous in packs.
Someone is lying,
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Time to turn up the heat,,,
The lies will come out when it gets hot enough,,,
I looked around a little to try to find out what union
the NOPD belongs to,,,
All I could find was a mention of Teamsters from years ago.
Uh, you seem to have forgotten that comment on what I should do ...
In what way?
Bobby J. is MIA here.
His parents were here on student visas when he was born. If he is eligible because of the anchor baby thing, it’s ridiculous. Never mind his “I break with the Republican Party over universal health care” or his jumping on the “blame Bush for Katrina” bandwagon.
Look, goofball. Here's how it went down, 5 thugs beat down 2 yuppies coming out of an expensive restaurant after a Republican fund raiser. Four thugs beat a man, broke his jaw and his nose and gave him a concussion. One thug broke the young ladies leg in 4 places as he jumped and down on it.
How much do you get paid to be a dumbass? Is it worth it...?
I get about $100 an hour plus overtime.
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