Of course it’s a horse!
Unruly crowds poured out of a bar in a New Orleans neighborhood – including people on horseback – as out-of-control Halloween celebrations devastated the streets and enraged residents.
Now Mid-City residents are accusing police of ignoring their requests for help as dozens of people filled an intersection Saturday evening around 8 p.m.
“This is the first time for me that I’ve felt so threatened by things spiraling out of control and this town not being available when we need help,” said Kelly Holmes, owner of a bar in the area.
The crowd littered the sidewalks with alcohol bottles, horse feces and urine stains that were still visible the next day.
Unruly crowds poured out of a bar in a New Orleans neighborhood — including people on horseback — as out-of-control Halloween celebrations destroyed the streets and enraged residents
Now Mid-City residents are accusing police of ignoring their requests for help as dozens filled an intersection Saturday evening around 8 p.m.
Residents and local businesses were inconvenienced by the wild crowds and contacted local authorities through 911 calls in the hope that they would restore some order to the out-of-control situation.
To make matters worse, New Orleans police were largely unresponsive to calls for help from locals and did not arrive on the scene until more than three hours after the initial call was made, police said. WVUE.
The commotion took place on Carrolton Avenue, normally a quiet intersection.
Charley Richard was eating at a nearby restaurant when things took a turn Saturday evening. He said the block became completely clogged around 8 p.m. and became impossible to pass through.
Wit’s Inn – a bar on Carrolton Avenue – is where the chaos began, with crowds spilling out of the inn onto the sidewalk and blocking other businesses on the street.
Red Door staff felt that the gang of people from Wit’s Inn were disrupting their business and decided they needed help from the authorities.
DailyMail.com has contacted Wit’s Inn for comment but has not yet received a response.
The crowd littered the sidewalks with alcohol bottles, horse feces and urine stains that were still visible the next day
“This is the first time for me that I’ve felt so threatened by things spiraling out of control and this town not being available when we need help,” said Kelly Holmes, owner of a bar in the area.
Phone logs showed the first call to 911 went out around 8:30 p.m. — and several other callers tried to reach police around the same time.
Callers said there was no response from local authorities and no one even answered on the other end of the line, the report said.
DailyMail.com contacted NOPD, who explained: “At approximately 8:05 p.m., an initial call was received for a large crowd gathering in the 100 block of North Carrollton Avenue. A NOPD First District unit was dispatched to the call at approximately 8:23 p.m. and arrived on scene at 8:56 p.m. The unit marked the call as “necessary action taken” (NAT) and cleared the scene at approximately 9:41 p.m.
‘Because of the NAT marking, no official report is available. The service call information originally provided to the point of sale was for an unrelated service call and was not applicable to this incident.”
Mid-City Security District board member Charley Richard said, “Dozens and dozens and dozens of people. Some of them on horseback, some of them on some kind of party ship or float or something. Loud music, lots of yelling and screaming, and all kinds of activities. But they had blocked everything, the whole sidewalk was blocked.”
Richard said when police calls are made in the Mid-City area of New Orleans, the neighborhood safety district can be dispatched to help ease the burden on officers.
The Mid-City Security District does not have the same authority as New Orleans police officers, so when they are deployed, they are limited in what they can enforce.
“The problem is we are limited in what we can do as a Mid-City Security District,” Richard said.
He said that the security region cannot pull a gun and say ‘you are under arrest’ or something like that.
New Orleans Councilman Joe Giarrusso said he is aware of the problem. he said it will take a coordinated effort between police, Code Enforcement and Public Works to find a solution, according to Fox 8.
Phone logs showed the first call to 911 went out around 8:30 p.m. — and several other callers tried to reach police around the same time. Callers said there was no response from local authorities and no one even answered on the other end of the line
Mid-City Security District board member Charley Richard said, “Dozens and dozens and dozens of people. Some of them on horseback, some of them on some kind of party ship or float or something. Loud music, lots of yelling and screaming, and all kinds of activities’
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“911 didn’t answer and no police were available…SHOCKER…But thank goodness everything is going in the right direction at Teedy,” one user said.
‘Teedy’ – as the Democratic politician is known – was criticized by New Orleans residents earlier this year for ‘quietly quitting’.
New Orleans residents sought to oust controversial Mayor LaToya Cantrell from office, claiming she engaged in “silent quitting” by not meeting with her department heads for more than a year.
The recall effort against Cantrell, 50, was launched in August 2022 as Vice President Ellen Carter pushed to collect 50,000 signatures by Feb. 22 — a goal she said has been surpassed.
“Right now, our mayor doesn’t like New Orleans, so the citizens and the residents stood up,” Carter said. “We’re taking back our city and we’re going to save New Orleans.”
Crime in New Orleans is brutal – with more than 280 murders in 2022, 482 shootings, 279 car thefts and 541 robberies, according to WDSU.
New Orleans was ranked as America’s second-worst homicide hot spot, only shortly behind the winner – Memphis, Tennessee.