Armed French Quarter Citizens Group - ETA: founder booked for stalking

[Jack]

If Obama suggested the tactic of observing and reporting, would it lead to hysteria?

 

[Emperor]

1,000 people will stand around and record incidents on their cell phones but once the police show up, no one saw anything.

Yep!

 

[RedStickChick]

If anyone is bored and needs some extra entertainment, their Facebook page is making my morning.

https://www.facebook.com/Frenchquarterminutemen

 

[oleheat]

"Just wondering why a sitting judge would allow someone to harass himself and his employees since 2009."

That's a fair question, IMHO. Saved for a rainy day, perhaps......?

 

[RedStickChick]

Andddddd he's been booked. I don't understand why he wasn't booked when he met with NOPD earlier this week.

Aaron Jordan said he was on the run from the law. He apparently didn’t make it far before he decided to turn around.

The would-be leader of a proposed armed-citizens group to patrol the French Quarter was booked into Orleans Parish Prison late Wednesday night on one count of stalking, according to jail records.

Jordan surrendered to authorities at the jail a little before midnight, said Officer Hilal Williams, a New Orleans Police Department spokeswoman. Bail was not immediately set.

His arrest came the same day media reports revealed that Jordan, 37, of Metairie, was wanted on an outstanding warrant for the felony stalking charge related to harassing letters he allegedly sent to a relative of Municipal Court Judge Paul Sens.

Sens convicted Jordan of criminal trespassing in a 2009 incident that occurred in the 1100 block of Elysian Fields Avenue.

Jordan last week announced plans to form the French Quarter Minutemen, a group of private citizens with concealed-carry gun permits who would escort service-industry workers in the neighborhood to and from their vehicles.

He said he was motivated to take matters into his own hands by an attack on musician Doug Potter, who was brutally beaten by two men in February after playing a gig in the French Quarter.

Jordan met with officials in the NOPD’s 8th District, which patrols the French Quarter, on Tuesday to discuss his plans, but he was not arrested, despite a warrant for his arrest that was issued last week.

http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/home/9373031-172/authorities-book-would-be-french-quarter

Sorry to keep bringing it up. I just think it's rather comical.

 

[Jack]

No, please keep going, this **** is moving my day along much faster.

 

[nolaradio]

Normally I would ask the question "What was he thinking when he decided to get the spotlight shining on him?" But obviously he wasn't thinking at all.

 

[RedStickChick]

No, please keep going, this **** is moving my day along much faster.

Well, I'm about to go on a call so y'all need to have some entertaining comments for when I get back.

 

[nolaradio]

Well, I'm about to go on a call so y'all need to have some entertaining comments for when I get back.

Didn't know that the French Quarter Minute Men has set up a dispatch already. Interesting.

 

[Jack]

Well, I'm about to go on a call so y'all need to have some entertaining comments for when I get back.

What do you think this is? A fence thread?

 

[RedStickChick]

What do you think this is? A fence thread?

It could be.

Make it happen Jack!

 

[Jack]

It could be.

Make it happen Jack!

Shouldn't you be stalking people to their cars?

 

[LACamper]

I can certainly see the pitfalls in the whole idea... but I've been thinking about this for a few days. Ignoring the founders legal problems there is something about this that I like, and some downsides. What will criminals think the first time one of the minutemen have a valid shoot? Will the criminals start leaving the quarter alone? I guess that has a lot to do with the police's response. If they give the shooter a medal then maybe so. If they arrest him and make him the criminal then not so much.
On the same theme, what happens now if one of us that does not join the minutemen but does have a CCW has a shooting in the quarter? What if we get stopped in the quarter while carrying? I wonder what the NOPD reaction will be.

 

[alpinehyperlite]

First time something happens there will be retaliation. The thugs have claimed their "turf" and if they see these clowns as a threat they will do what it takes to eliminate said threat. At least that's how I see it. All these new little gangs that are running around trying to prove themselves could use this as their opportunity.

 

[Expert684]

First time something happens there will be retaliation. The thugs have claimed their "turf" and if they see these clowns as a threat they will do what it takes to eliminate said threat. At least that's how I see it. All these new little gangs that are running around trying to prove themselves could use this as their opportunity.

Yea, or maybe thugs that weren't "packin" will be. Might cause more folks to get shot? We are talking about a subculture, with a very low value of anything but their "thug" way of life.

 

[LACamper]

So we end up with a turf war between thugs and the CCW crowd? So the citizens decide to take back their streets... putting the NOPD brass and politicians in a position where they have to choose between supporting the law abiding 2A crowd or thugs with rap sheets? huh. The danger is that race is going to play into it. The media will probably portray it as 30+ year old racist white guys vs 17 year old black kids. It'll be Treyvon all over again.

 

[alpinehyperlite]

So we end up with a turf war between thugs and the CCW crowd? So the citizens decide to take back their streets... putting the NOPD brass and politicians in a position where they have to choose between supporting the law abiding 2A crowd or thugs with rap sheets? huh. The danger is that race is going to play into it. The media will probably portray it as 30+ year old racist white guys vs 17 year old black kids. It'll be Treyvon all over again.

Key word of my post. Retaliation. It will certainly happen one way or another.

 

[my-rifle]

The comments by Attorney Davis Oestreicher caught my attention. He was quoted as saying "If the volunteers could certainly have access to letting the regulars (police) know that something needs attention, I think it would make a huge difference." Just reminds me of the saying; When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.

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I meant David.

Yeah, I was reminded that this is the same police force that took two hours to show up when a chick drove her Chevy Subdivision right over my car while she was texting and I was blowing my horn 20 feet from her ****ing ear.

 

[madwabbit]

Yeah, I was reminded that this is the same police force that took two hours to show up when a chick drove her Chevy Subdivision right over my car while she was texting and I was blowing my horn 20 feet from her ****ing ear.

if there weren't injuries, there was probably a higher priority call or two at the time. its not unlike an emergency room- someone's gun shot wound trumped your headache, regardless of how long you'd been waiting.

Just a hypothesis though- I don't work NO and I never will.

 

[nolaradio]

My sister posted a comment on her Facebook wall about this guy. Apparently he was in her class back in the day in junior high & high school. She and her friends all commented about how this guy was creepy and they thought he would grow up to be a molester or something. I guess they weren't far off. He grew up to a creep with a gun.