From: [j b s] at [duke.edu] (Joe B. Simpson)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: NEW ORLEANS: NOPD Strikes Again
Date: 6 Jun 1994 18:02:51 GMT

In a local newsgroup, [sasw q m] at [heron.unx.sas.com] wrote the following:

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>In article <[CquEu 5 2 sz] at [usenews.nrlssc.navy.mil]> [b--b] at [nrlssc.navy.mil] (Robert S. Linzell) writes:
>>Officer Michael Mazar (sp?) was arrested yesterday (6/2/94) for
>>allegedly pistol whipping a motorist he stopped in New Orleans on
>>June 1, 1994.
...

  A woman from New England was stopped in New Orleans last year for a
minor traffic infraction in a rental car on Canal Street.  When the
policeman discovered she did not have her driver license with her--she
had left it in her hotel room--he arrested her.  She went to central
lockup in New Orleans and stayed for nearly 12 hours.  During her
tenure there she was frisked, strip-searched, and all her personal
items were taken away and she was issued prison garb. SOP for New
Orleans finest.  Anyone without a drivers license is immediately
arrested.  They never apologized.  The woman was in the travel
industry.  She held a scathing press conference swearing to never book
anyone else going to New Orleans.  It was pretty funny.  The police
still never apologized.

  In a place that had 389 murders last year you would think jail
space would be at a premium.


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  -joe
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        "When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it."

                        - U.S. President Bill Clinton, 1994