Pontchartrain Get Away!
While standing on Canal waiting for Pontchartrain to roll by an interesting thing happened. The police cars had already passed by at the beginning of the parade, then along came a truck pulling a long flatbed trailer filled with children and chaperones, followed by young men on horseback. (I am sorry I don’t remember the name of their organization.) Just as the truck began to pass in front of me, five police officers ran up to the truck and told the man to stop. They asked for his license and registration after looking over these documents they asked him to exit the vehicle. At this point people were getting a little pissed off as down the street came about 9 other officers to stick their noses in the business and get a piece of the action. I should note that whatever this man did or did not do he was fully cooperating and not causing any ‘action’ to warrant a total of 14 officers to handle him. After about five minutes of holding the parade up, they took the man over to the side and an officer drove the truck onto the neutral ground. While this was happening, the children in the back of the truck looked confused and possibly a bit scared. I wonder how long it took someone to relay the message to their parents as to why their kids are in the neutral ground and not at the end of the parade. I do not know what happened to the man and I do not know why they ‘pulled him over’ but I would be willing to bet they could have waited until the parade was over. Maybe be waiting for him at the end, hey there’s an idea. I am sure if they put all 14 of their heads together they could have figured out how to do that.
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Where was this? About St. Charles and Washington? We saw the police activity, but never could figure it out.
The horseback riders, I think, were the Urban Cowboy club out of Abita Springs. But there were a couple different ones.
could be that the guy wasn’t part of the parade and didn’t have any permission to do what he was doing.
14 officers at an incident in parade crowds on Canal is not out of line. Regardless of how the one guy was acting, there is crowd control to take into account.
This was Canal between Royal and Chartres. It wasn’t the number of officers really but the way they ran to the rescue that was a little over the top.
Either way it spiced up the parade a bit.