[StBernard] Sheriff's Race and Parish Protection!?

[Westley Annis]

Yes Jer, I think it is scary and anyone who says it is not is in denial and 
sticking their head in the sand.  I'm sorry about what happened to your 
cousin and I'm glad he is alright.  A young woman was attacked and sexually 
assulted in a gutted apartment in a dead neighborhood but it was by a local 
man.  The men I was talking about are speaking spanish.  I am not saying 
they are all bad people because they are not, they are not even the people 
being arrested all that much.  I don't think our Mexican workers are all bad

and I'm not trying to pick on them cause they are doing work that no one 
else wants to do.  It's hard to know who to trust and all your neighbors are

gone and everyone you know is gone so it can be scary.  Criminals seen to 
know how vulnerable we are down here.

Laurie


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>"I do feel unsafe on the streets of St. Bernard.  There is no one around in

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>the deserted neighborhoods except the contruction workers that I do not 

>know

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>and many of them speaking a language I do not understand so that is very

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>un-nerving when you are a female and there is a group of foreign men

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>speaking and looking at you and you do not understand what they are saying.

>--Laurie."

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>**Laurie, I am sympathetic to your fears. On a personal note, my little

>cousin was robbed at gunpoint, abducted to use his debit card at gunpoint 

>at

>an ATM, stolen his cell phone and wallet, etc. (unfortunately he wasn't

>killed by his attackers!, God spared him. The event took place this past

>weekend at the Shell service station at Paris Rd/Judge Perez, he's

>mentioned.

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>The attackers were not a foreign language expert as described in your very

>well-presented post, but "African-Americans" who don't speak the same

>language as the Parish Sheriff (and ultimately don't fear what he can/will

>or did do to stop this crime.

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>This is not the only crime committed in the parish and I fear for my close

>friends and families who are in peril having to deal with this very serious

>problem these days. I fear that if something isn't done soon or with the

>next sheriff, lots of folks will find refuge in safer quarters elsewhere or

>turn to vigilantes to protect themselves and loved ones.

>

>==jer--