Screw the commentary
1) A 24-year year old Harvey man was shot twice in front of his home Thursday morning, and remains in stable condition at a local hospital.
Col. Robert Garner, a spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Offfice, said that the man told deputies that shortly before 1 a.m. he was standing in front of his home in the 1700 block of Esther Street, when an unidentified man walked up to him and fired several shots in his direction.
2)A New Orleans man was found shot Wednesday night on Louisiana Avenue, police said.
The man's injuries weren't life-threatening, police spokeswoman Officer Jonette Williams said.
He was shot about 7:30 p.m. in or near a relative's home in the 1900 block of Delachaise Street, and ran to a nearby car wash on Louisiana Avenue where he collapsed, police said.
3)Elizabeth McFerrin arrived at the New Orleans Yacht Club Tuesday morning and smelled dead fish.
She looked out of a window and saw dead fish covering the Municipal Yacht Harbor and more floating to the surface five and six at a time.
By Tuesday evening, McFerrin, general manager of the club, estimated the number of dead fish to be in the tens of thousands.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
KATRINA DAY
People think Katrina was an event, like a balloon popping, that occurred and passed when the water receded. When they say, "Katrina did this to me," they think they're saying, "water destroyed my house."
But Katrina was an event more in the way Foucault would say "event". That is, the storm represented a fundamental shift in the cities perception of reality. It changed what was fundamentally "true" at any given time. Example:
Pre-K, the government will help, that was true. Post-K, the government does nothing.
Whether or not you believe these statements to be true, on the ground, in the city, they are basic truths that every action and opinion of the disenfranchised classes pivot on.
Katrina was not a storm. Katrina is the name given to the shift in perception that dictates life in New Orleans.
Today is not the anniversary of Katrina. Katrina is still happening. It is everywhere. It makes our lives impossible.
So, here is some "Katrina"
A shooting in Central City left one person wounded Tuesday night, New Orleans police said.
The shooting occurred around the 2600 block of Danneel Street, between Third and Fourth streets, at 9:30 p.m.
The victim, a man, was shot in the face, said Garry Flot, a police public information officer.
NOMB rode by this spot on their bikes around 9:00
Again, Katrina
A man was shot and killed Tuesday morning in the Desire neighborhood, according to the New Orleans Police Department.
He was found by police about 10 a.m., sprawled on the pavement at Humanity and Feliciana streets, said NOPD spokeswoman Officer Jonette Williams.
The man had been shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity has not been released.
But Katrina was an event more in the way Foucault would say "event". That is, the storm represented a fundamental shift in the cities perception of reality. It changed what was fundamentally "true" at any given time. Example:
Pre-K, the government will help, that was true. Post-K, the government does nothing.
Whether or not you believe these statements to be true, on the ground, in the city, they are basic truths that every action and opinion of the disenfranchised classes pivot on.
Katrina was not a storm. Katrina is the name given to the shift in perception that dictates life in New Orleans.
Today is not the anniversary of Katrina. Katrina is still happening. It is everywhere. It makes our lives impossible.
So, here is some "Katrina"
A shooting in Central City left one person wounded Tuesday night, New Orleans police said.
The shooting occurred around the 2600 block of Danneel Street, between Third and Fourth streets, at 9:30 p.m.
The victim, a man, was shot in the face, said Garry Flot, a police public information officer.
NOMB rode by this spot on their bikes around 9:00
Again, Katrina
A man was shot and killed Tuesday morning in the Desire neighborhood, according to the New Orleans Police Department.
He was found by police about 10 a.m., sprawled on the pavement at Humanity and Feliciana streets, said NOPD spokeswoman Officer Jonette Williams.
The man had been shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity has not been released.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
The Roommate
NOMB notices the roommate is looking peckish. We assume that it is the inevitable stress of non-profit work.
After some badgering it becomes apparent that after arriving from Baton Rouge to her office on OC Haley she decided to have cigarette on the neutral ground.
"WIth all the sound whizzing by my ears," she says. "It took me a while to realize they were shooting."
She hid behind a metal telephone pole until the cops showed up.
Here's the official word:
Two men were shot Monday evening in Central City, New Orleans police said.One was shot in the thigh, and the other in the arm. The man who was shot in the arm was found about 7 p.m. in the 2200 block of Felicity Street. The second victim, believed to have been wounded in the same incident, was found at a hospital, where he had gone on his own, police said.
Police had no suspect or motive.
Out in No-Man's Land:
A 28-year-old man was fatally shot in eastern New Orleans on Sunday night, the latest in a rash of killings in the sparsely populated area.
The man had gunshots wounds to his face and head. He was later identified as Louis Heim, 28, of New Orleans, according to John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner.
Ugh
After some badgering it becomes apparent that after arriving from Baton Rouge to her office on OC Haley she decided to have cigarette on the neutral ground.
"WIth all the sound whizzing by my ears," she says. "It took me a while to realize they were shooting."
She hid behind a metal telephone pole until the cops showed up.
Here's the official word:
Two men were shot Monday evening in Central City, New Orleans police said.One was shot in the thigh, and the other in the arm. The man who was shot in the arm was found about 7 p.m. in the 2200 block of Felicity Street. The second victim, believed to have been wounded in the same incident, was found at a hospital, where he had gone on his own, police said.
Police had no suspect or motive.
Out in No-Man's Land:
A 28-year-old man was fatally shot in eastern New Orleans on Sunday night, the latest in a rash of killings in the sparsely populated area.
The man had gunshots wounds to his face and head. He was later identified as Louis Heim, 28, of New Orleans, according to John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner.
Ugh
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Readership, AT ALL TIME LOW
Moly Ried of the Times-Picayune brings you the following choice dish:
One man was killed and another injured in a gunfight Saturday morning outside a Kenner lounge.
Ron James, 28, was booked with second-degree murder after he was released from the hospital with a gunshot wound.
Responding to a report of gunshots fired outside the Backyard Café & Daiquiris, 433 Veterans Memorial Blvd., at 5:09 a.m., Kenner police found several spent bullets and casings on the Decatur Street side of the lounge.
protect your souls, dear readers, because you're going to have to reconcile the following fact,
While some in the city do their absolute best, others do their absolute worst.
Really, don't pay it lip service, reconcile it with your conscience. Preachy Sunday.
One man was killed and another injured in a gunfight Saturday morning outside a Kenner lounge.
Ron James, 28, was booked with second-degree murder after he was released from the hospital with a gunshot wound.
Responding to a report of gunshots fired outside the Backyard Café & Daiquiris, 433 Veterans Memorial Blvd., at 5:09 a.m., Kenner police found several spent bullets and casings on the Decatur Street side of the lounge.
protect your souls, dear readers, because you're going to have to reconcile the following fact,
While some in the city do their absolute best, others do their absolute worst.
Really, don't pay it lip service, reconcile it with your conscience. Preachy Sunday.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
The Emissary
When NOMB worked the case manager beat, we watched as two small Vietnamese girls sat in front of the members of Catholic Charities' Hispanic Forum and offered a partnership of sorts. A sharing of resources between two marginalized groups in the city.
But we never hear about them, until this happens:
Two people were shot to death and five others injured in an apparent barrage of gunfire late Friday night in eastern New Orleans, just a block from where a Vietnamese couple was slain in their home two weeks ago, New Orleans police said. Two victims were listed in critical condition and three people suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.
The eastern New Orleans area has been a hotbed recently for armed robberies and home invasions. Several crews of stickup men, all using the same tactics, have struck unknowing contractors and residents, police sources said.
Living out in the East with no protection. While NOPD snags some West Bankers in a 100,000 drug raid that stretched across unincorporated Grenta/Westwego, these folks are battling it out. It's a turf war. Amid other rumors, the following quote is the one true thing we know
The murders shocked the tight-knit Vietnamese community, which as been a flurry of rebuilding activity in an otherwise sparsely populated part of the city.
I would expect to see this situation become more volatile and yet completely unspoken about.
In other turf war news, Hollygrove saw two more shot on Thurs after the 17 year-old got 16 shots:
Two men in their late 20s leaving a corner bar near Eagle and Edinburgh streets were approached by two men, who opened fire, Flot said.
Don't forget about the 7th Ward:
First District officers responding to a report of a shooting shortly after 7:15 p.m. found the man lying in the middle of the street in the 2000 block of North Prieur Street, near Touro Street. He was pronounced dead the scene.
A cell phone that rang intermittently lay on the sidewalk about 40 feet from the body. A New Orleans police crime lab technician put the phone into an evidence bag.
And Central City:
Second District police responded to a report of shooting at Loyola and Washington avenues shortly before 7:45 p.m. A 17-year-old man was shot in the back, and another man was shot in the leg
But we never hear about them, until this happens:
Two people were shot to death and five others injured in an apparent barrage of gunfire late Friday night in eastern New Orleans, just a block from where a Vietnamese couple was slain in their home two weeks ago, New Orleans police said. Two victims were listed in critical condition and three people suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.
The eastern New Orleans area has been a hotbed recently for armed robberies and home invasions. Several crews of stickup men, all using the same tactics, have struck unknowing contractors and residents, police sources said.
Living out in the East with no protection. While NOPD snags some West Bankers in a 100,000 drug raid that stretched across unincorporated Grenta/Westwego, these folks are battling it out. It's a turf war. Amid other rumors, the following quote is the one true thing we know
The murders shocked the tight-knit Vietnamese community, which as been a flurry of rebuilding activity in an otherwise sparsely populated part of the city.
I would expect to see this situation become more volatile and yet completely unspoken about.
In other turf war news, Hollygrove saw two more shot on Thurs after the 17 year-old got 16 shots:
Two men in their late 20s leaving a corner bar near Eagle and Edinburgh streets were approached by two men, who opened fire, Flot said.
Don't forget about the 7th Ward:
First District officers responding to a report of a shooting shortly after 7:15 p.m. found the man lying in the middle of the street in the 2000 block of North Prieur Street, near Touro Street. He was pronounced dead the scene.
A cell phone that rang intermittently lay on the sidewalk about 40 feet from the body. A New Orleans police crime lab technician put the phone into an evidence bag.
And Central City:
Second District police responded to a report of shooting at Loyola and Washington avenues shortly before 7:45 p.m. A 17-year-old man was shot in the back, and another man was shot in the leg
Friday, August 24, 2007
Retroactive
If they die in the hospital later, of complications, to they get added to the tallY? NOMB editors say no, decidedly
Somewhere on page two of the Metro is a story about a man who died from a July shooting, but we can't find it now that we're looking. Maybe it's too early in the morning to be doing this.
Babies:
A 17-year-old boy, dead of an apparent gunshot wound, was found on a sidewalk in the Hollygrove neighborhood Thursday night, New Orleans police said.
Increasingly, the working class, the undocumented, the people who don't get a lot of press, feel the weight the most. A nice narrative:
The stickup men pulled up, parked and barged into the one-story stucco house Wednesday shortly before 9 p.m.
Inside, spread through a couple of bare, recently renovated rooms, six bone-tired day laborers ate dinner.
Two of the three gunmen forced the four men and two women together, huddled them into the middle of the kitchen and ordered them face down on the newly tiled floor, according to witnesses who asked to remain anonymous. The other assailant waited outside the house, in the 8400 block of Nighthart Street in eastern New Orleans
Somewhere on page two of the Metro is a story about a man who died from a July shooting, but we can't find it now that we're looking. Maybe it's too early in the morning to be doing this.
Babies:
A 17-year-old boy, dead of an apparent gunshot wound, was found on a sidewalk in the Hollygrove neighborhood Thursday night, New Orleans police said.
Increasingly, the working class, the undocumented, the people who don't get a lot of press, feel the weight the most. A nice narrative:
The stickup men pulled up, parked and barged into the one-story stucco house Wednesday shortly before 9 p.m.
Inside, spread through a couple of bare, recently renovated rooms, six bone-tired day laborers ate dinner.
Two of the three gunmen forced the four men and two women together, huddled them into the middle of the kitchen and ordered them face down on the newly tiled floor, according to witnesses who asked to remain anonymous. The other assailant waited outside the house, in the 8400 block of Nighthart Street in eastern New Orleans
Thursday, August 23, 2007
The Bible
NOMB wakes up to a woman, over sixty, who says,
"Moses led his people through the desert for 40 years."
We try to interject, knowing where this could go.
"Now wait and listen to me."
Bible quotes equal threats. NOLA gives us more reasons to pray.
a 29-year-old man was shot several times in his car in front of his house in the 1200 block of Gallier Street, just north of St. Claude Avenue, about 9 p.m., police said. He was driven to University Hospital by his father . He died on arrival at the hospital, police said.
Also:
A triple shooting in which one man was critically wounded was reported eight minutes earlier in the 4800 block of Nighthart Street, police said.
Two or three men either forced their way or were let into a home in that block shortly before 9 p.m. and shot three men inside, police said.
The end days, the end of Aug that is.
"Moses led his people through the desert for 40 years."
We try to interject, knowing where this could go.
"Now wait and listen to me."
Bible quotes equal threats. NOLA gives us more reasons to pray.
a 29-year-old man was shot several times in his car in front of his house in the 1200 block of Gallier Street, just north of St. Claude Avenue, about 9 p.m., police said. He was driven to University Hospital by his father . He died on arrival at the hospital, police said.
Also:
A triple shooting in which one man was critically wounded was reported eight minutes earlier in the 4800 block of Nighthart Street, police said.
Two or three men either forced their way or were let into a home in that block shortly before 9 p.m. and shot three men inside, police said.
The end days, the end of Aug that is.
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