NEW ORLEANS — A vagrant wanted for questioning in a rape overpowered a 24-year-old police officer who was trying to handcuff him, then shot her to death with her own weapon Monday, police said.
The officer's death was a blow to this city's psyche, where hopes are high that a new year would yield results in holding back a wave of crime that has been a dark backdrop to the rebuilding effort since Hurricane Katrina.
"When it hits home like this, it hits you tremendously," said Warren Riley, the police superintendent charged with energizing a demoralized police force in the storm's wake.
Nicola Cotton was shot around 10 a.m. in a parking lot near a busy intersection in the crime-plagued Central City neighborhood and a few streets away from the district police station.
The suspect was identified as Bernell Johnson, 44. He was arrested and booked with first-degree murder. Riley said Johnson had been arrested several times before on alleged sex offenses.
The officer's death was a blow to this city's psyche, where hopes are high that a new year would yield results in holding back a wave of crime that has been a dark backdrop to the rebuilding effort since Hurricane Katrina.
"When it hits home like this, it hits you tremendously," said Warren Riley, the police superintendent charged with energizing a demoralized police force in the storm's wake.
Nicola Cotton was shot around 10 a.m. in a parking lot near a busy intersection in the crime-plagued Central City neighborhood and a few streets away from the district police station.
The suspect was identified as Bernell Johnson, 44. He was arrested and booked with first-degree murder. Riley said Johnson had been arrested several times before on alleged sex offenses.
Really? Think the fucking judge will keep him in jail this time? I doubt it.
Riley said the officer approached the man in her police cruiser and began questioning him. When she tried to handcuff him, the suspect attacked her and a seven-minute fight ensued, he said.
The officer managed to use her radio during the struggle to call for backup, but the man grabbed her weapon and shot her repeatedly, Riley said.
Passers-by may not have seen the drawn-out struggle because the pair was on the ground and shielded by the officer's vehicle, Riley said. Police said security videotape captured the lethal assault. More here:
Huh? Passersby couldn't hear the fight -- couldn't see the fight? With a police cruiser sitting there -- unobtrusive -- not attracting any attention at all, I suppose.
I don't know about you but when a police cruiser is in my neighborhood, I wonder wtf is going on -- and I LOOK AT THE CAR AND AROUND THE CAR. Must have been a real secret and quiet fight -- until the gun started going off.
Riley said police have several witnesses to the shooting, which occurred near a convenience store and other businesses.
Too bad he didn't kill some jackasses ... erm, I mean "witnesses" who should have helped the police lady.
The officer's death was a blow to this city's psyche, where hopes are high that a new year would yield results in holding back a wave of crime that has been a dark backdrop to the rebuilding effort since Hurricane Katrina.
Yes -- it's all been since Hurricane Katrina -- everything was fine before that -- you know -- just like everywhere else hurricanes hit -- it's always a mass of murder and mayhem for years afterward.
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listen prior to katrina I was there and was informed not to drive through certain areas of the city but if I had to DO NOT STOP. That place was a shithole then and I am sure it is a shit hole now. People will tell oh it is ok where all the party streets. Yea well wonder off those streets and tell me all about how nice the place is. The best thing that happened to the shithole was Katrina. All the Rats ran and some have decided to create shitholes in other locations. Oh and of course they keep on collecting all our tax dollars since they can not work because of their circumstances.
Most apparently sis not even help to clean up their shithole but had others come in and do it. Fuck em
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