Although you don't want to hear about this happening to anyone, it's especially upsetting to hear that it has happened to a respected ambassador of New Orleans jazz, a man whose family goes all the way back to the important Papa Celestin Tuxedo Jazz Band. Any establishment worth it's salt should be rolling out the red carpet for such a person.
You would think that after the infamous bridge incident after the storm, the one witnessed by the world, that the Jeff Parish police would have gotten some sensitivity training about this sort of thing. Here is an article about that, for whoever doesn't remember that or didn't know:
I did want to add that there are many very nice people in Jefferson Parish, and in Gretna as well -- it's always the racist yahoos who get the press. It wouldn't be right to condemn the whole area, but I certainly do share the outrage of anyone who is treated like this.
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Date: 2008-06-21 05:56 am (UTC)Although you don't want to hear about this happening to anyone, it's especially upsetting to hear that it has happened to a respected ambassador of New Orleans jazz, a man whose family goes all the way back to the important Papa Celestin Tuxedo Jazz Band. Any establishment worth it's salt should be rolling out the red carpet for such a person.
You would think that after the infamous bridge incident after the storm, the one witnessed by the world, that the Jeff Parish police would have gotten some sensitivity training about this sort of thing. Here is an article about that, for whoever doesn't remember that or didn't know:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/13/katrina.bridge/index.html
I did want to add that there are many very nice people in Jefferson Parish, and in Gretna as well -- it's always the racist yahoos who get the press. It wouldn't be right to condemn the whole area, but I certainly do share the outrage of anyone who is treated like this.
Very saddening.