For more than three decades, attorney Mary Howell has been at the frontlines of police misconduct and civil rights litigation in New Orleans. She has represented plaintiffs in the Algiers police rampage of 1980, the killing of Adolph Archie in 1990, and the execution of Kim Groves by order of policeman Len Davis in 1994. [...]
Tag Archives: NOPD
Police Horse Poppin’ on Bourbon Street: Video
December 16, 2011 – 1:42 pm
Dip, baby, dip / slide and move your hips —Glen David Andrews, Lil’ Rascals Brass Band’s “Knock with Me, Rock with Me” The latest local video making the viral rounds on social media? A mounted crowd-control police officer (a regular sight in the French Quarter) showing off his horse-riding skills by commanding his steed to [...]
Rotten, Really Rotten Apples
November 2, 2011 – 1:56 pm
You know that old idiom, “A rotten apple spoils the barrel”? We had a taste of that on Halloween night when two morons on Bourbon Street and Canal Street decided to take their personal fights to the street using guns. In the process, two people were shot dead, and eight others were injured. This happened in [...]
Treme: The Ways Down
May 9, 2011 – 5:27 pm
[Spoiler Alert] “On Your Way Down” was a fair title for this episode, but you sort of wish Alice Cooper was from New Orleans because “Welcome to My Nightmare” would have been more appropriate. This week, almost everybody faced one hell or another, whether it was Antoine and the gaggle of children standing between him [...]
Benefit Concert for Krewe of Eris Arrestees
April 14, 2011 – 3:52 pm
In the aftermath of the Krewe of Eris/NOPD clash on the Sunday before Mardi Gras, the twelve parade participants who were arrested are now in the process of navigating the court system and facing possible charges. A legal team is helping all twelve arrestees together, and to help cover those costs there is a benefit [...]
Well, They’re At It Again
June 16, 2010 – 6:46 pm
After all these years, and all the protestations about how New Orleans is a “city of music,” the “birthplace of jazz.” It’s happening all over again. Our new NOPD chief, the new District C (French Quarter) councilperson, Kristin Gisleson Palmer, and the Quarterite Music Abolition Team is at it again. It’s a never-ending battle between [...]
Yellow Pocahontas TM
March 24, 2010 – 12:21 pm
Yesterday’s New York Times has a story on an unusual approach by Mardi Gras Indians to monetizing their suits – they’re copyrighting them. An age-old thorn in Indians’ side has been the belief that photographers are making money off of images of their costumes, but they don’t get a piece of the action – an anxiety [...]
The Price of Parading
November 1, 2006 – 12:01 am
In early October, members of the Family Ties Social Aid and Pleasure Club strutted through downtown New Orleans in fresh new blue outfits. Under the day’s hot sun, sweat poured off foreheads and some suits wilted a little. Still, the club was prepared to keep up their fancy footwork for the standard second-line parade length—four [...]
