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POLICE PUNCH: WELCOME TO NEW ORLEANS  J. Grant Swank, Jr.

The Lord’s Day witnessed a black man punched, pulled and plummeted. The New Orleans police did it. Not one policeman but several.

The video shown on TV news revealed it, though a police on horseback tried to block the camera. However, the lens picked up reality TV. It was New Orleans’ welcome to the city come back from the dead and back to the dead again.

This time it was a 64-year-old black drunk. That’s not opinion. That’s the official bottomline. The man was over the edge with alcohol, according to tests.

However, even a drunk does not deserve being punched in the face, muscle armed about his neck, and then his body dragged to the pavement as several huge cops do him in.

One of the cops, a large fellow out to show who’s in charge, then attacked a newsman, shoving him against a vehicle, yelling in his face, and threatening him if he dared do or say anything.
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That reminded me once of being in the local Windham police station. My son was hauled in for what was deemed misbehavior at a school dance. It was later shown that the situation was not what the accusers claimed it to be.

However, as I was there with my son in the station, I asked the policeman interrogating my son a question. It was a harmless question. It was a logical query about further data that the policeman was going to get or not going to get from the accuser.

With that, the policeman moved into the hallway, not answering me. I asked again, politely. He looked at me and just stared. I repeated the question a third time, stating that I was serious, was the father of the young man accused, and as a citizen, deserved an answer from the police corps.

That was just a little too much reasoned statement for the policeman. He then started yelling at me, informing me in a scream that if I continued to ask him any more questions, I’d be spending the weekend myself in lockup.

The two policemen standing behind the hollering cop were laughing, chuckling that a pastor of the community was being insulted in public. That was humiliating and disgusting, not becoming police officers in southern Maine.

I later wrote the authorities in charge. I got a letter back laden with double-talk, just as I had expected. So I have been mistreated by a small village police crew and therefore have no naivete as to the meanness that men in uniform can level against a law-abiding member of the community.

Then I looked at the inebriated man in New Orleans.

I asked: What bartender gave the man one more drink than what he could handle?

Then when he moved to the sidewalk and obliged the police by following their directive when told to move toward the cruiser, why did they then punch his head several times against a cement wall?

Why did they plow into his cheeks, pushing him to the cement, and then sit on his body, punching for final fare as top off to the flesh slam?

Then why did the over-sized cop accost the newsman, throwing the latter’s smaller frame against a car, screaming in his face as the man with pad in hand clamed up no doubt for fear of his life?

After all, it was nighttime. Cops were to right and left. And New Orleans is New Orleans — not always cultural.

This is the moral base of a new New Orleans?

It is just what I would imagine from Mayor Ray Nagin’s clique when he now appeals to casinos to populate his "metropolis." The Mayor and police department obviously have learned nothing from two disasters which hit hard.

Instead of constructing a city on a truly congenial base, they are going at it all wrong — inviting gambling to take over the haunts and beating up those either brave enough or foolish enough to return.

Stay tuned. It’s not over yet.

Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.


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