NOPD Officer In Mardi Gras Madness Case Needs To Be Relieved Of Duty
In late June, more news developed in the case involving a fight between white off-duty NOPD officers and Black RTA employees at the Beach Corner, a mid-city bar and restaurant. Officer Jennifer Samuels, who was off duty at the time of the incident, claimed she took a gun off of RTA employee Lamont Williams. But other accounts of the incident tell that she retrieved the gun from the parked car of one of Williams’ coworkers. Samuels has said she took the gun off of Williams and either handed it to her husband Jason Samuels, also an off-duty cop, or to another off-duty cop; but both deny ever being handed a gun by Samuels.
Meanwhile, Williams, against whom the charges were dropped by the DA’s office because the police statements and those of other witnesses were too murky of mangled mess, is suing NOPD. And he is looking to the community for support in his effort. Indeed, Williams’ case is not for him or only about the Beach Corner incident alone. It is for every man or woman—but especially those of us from OUR community—who has been or knows someone who has been the victim of police brutality and terrorist police tactics. We anxiously await the outcome of this proceeding as we hope that it will shed more light on what really occurred Mardi Gras night 2008 at the Beach Corner, provide Williams with some retribution and give the NOPD just the push it seems to need to clean up its ranks. Here at The Tribune we support and applaud his effort to stand up for his rights and encourage others in the community to do the same.
And we hope that NOPD would do more to indicate that it will not tolerate this sort of behavior form its sworn officers. Chief Warren Riley’s letter of reprimand cites Samuels for hiding information that led to Williams’ false arrest. Truth is Samuel’s did more than hide information. If the allegations are true, she egregiously and callously planted evidence and provided false statements to hide the previous act. Officer Samuels has been suspended for 80 days. We say that’s not enough—not nearly enough. Samuels needs to be fired. Because of this incident, Samuels will forever spoil any case she touches. The crime problem in New Orleans is too serious for NOPD to risk letting real criminals get away because Officer Samuels just happened to be the responding officer or first on the scene. Her character is irreversibly impeachable. Get her off of our streets for good. That’s what we say; but as always, we want to know what cha say? The NOPD internal investigators are satisfied that Samuels at the very least lied about where she got the gun that she claimed she took off of Lamont Williams. Last we checked that was called planting evidence.
Would you want Officer Jennifer Samuels to stop you, your son or any member of your family?
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In his 4th of July address of 2009 to the nation, President Barack Obama called the Declaration of Indepence the heart and spirit of of America, its foundation. He also told WBOK Radio in a pre election interview, that justice must prevail for all Americans. Is our President a talking head?
I challenged our Attorney Eric Holder and now I’m challenging the president to address issues of Civil Rights in New Orleans under the 4th Amendment. To wit:
July 7, 2009
The Intent of Government and The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America
Ignorance is no excuse. Therefore:
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. –Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. ” (The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America)
Our predicate, aggrieved citizens in New Orleans, LA, to include but not limited to:
Levon Jones, a beloved son and college student, smothered to death while members of the New Orleans Police Dept. looked on, A Retired School Teacher beaten down on a public street, Danzinger 7- a fleeing Hurricane Katrina Citizen is killed and a woman’s arm is blown off by members of the NOPD, A Graduate of Brother Martin High with no criminal record is shot in the back several times by members of the NOPD, Lamont Williams, a hard working uniformed RTA Worker and family man- Beaten to a pulp by alleged members of the “Emerald Society”, a so- called esoteric New Orleans Police Brotherhood with Klan and racketeering loyalties, familiar to the FBI with possible ties to, Political Retribution against private citizens by elected representatives of government that are clearly violations of ethics and codes of conduct to say the least, and yada, yada, yada…
I respectfully submit Mr. United States Attorney General, the Honorable Eric Holder, for you to demonstrate just cause as to why citizens in New Orleans, Louisiana, who being entitled to rights and protections under the Constitution of The United States of America and particularly and pursuant to the 4th Amendment and Article 6, and the Declaration of Independence being the intent of founders to show cause why:
a. The dissolution of our political bonds is not justified, i.e., aggrieved citizens in New Orleans, and is not in keeping with constitutional intent
b. Ostensibly, why complaints to the Justice Department and/or its’ agents have fallen upon deaf ears, and it has failed to respond to pleas by citizens to investigate crimes against citizens with all deliberate speed, and bring egregious offences against the same to justice under constitutional law
c. Why attention, deliberate speed and comment at the highest Executive Office in the land is given to citizens protesting unjust democratic processes in Iran, while constitutional attention and protection against despotism involving American Citizens in New Orleans, Louisiana, is deafening silence
Respectfully,
U.S. Citizen and Military Veteran
THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR A JOURNALIST NOT TO PROOFREAD. SEE THE FIRST SENTENCE THIRD PARAGRAPH, USING THE WORD FORM INSTEAD OF FROM.
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Huh?