Colin Flaherty (Author of Don't Make the Black Kids Angry and Knockout Game) Commentary News Video "‘Blown away by the violence of it’: Group of tourists attacked by party bus passengers on Canal Street" "Group of tourists attacked, beaten by party bus passengers on Canal St." black mob thug criminality violence assaults knockout game hostility mayhem New Orleans
https://www.nola.com/crime/2019/02/blown-away-by-the-violence-of-it-group-of-tourists-attacked-by-party-bus-passengers-on-canal-street.html
By Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com Updated Feb 13; Posted Feb 13
Mark Whittaker Allen, 30, lay in a hospital bed at University Medical Center with missing teeth, a shattered jaw and stitches lining the inside of his lip after a brutal attack by a group of teens on Canal Street early Sunday morning (Feb. 10).
“Never in a million years did I think something like this would happen. I’m just really blown away by the violence of it,” the injured man, Mark Whittaker Allen, told NOLA.com | Times-Picayune.
http://www.fox8live.com/2019/02/13/group-tourists-attacked-beaten-by-party-bus-passengers-canal-st/
By Marie Simoneaux and Amanda Roberts | February 13, 2019 at 5:13 PM CST - Updated February 14 at 6:41 AM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - What started as a great weekend in New Orleans to celebrate Mark Whittaker Allen’s 30th birthday ended in trauma for him and his friends visiting from Colorado, when they were attacked and beaten by party bus passengers on Canal Street early Sunday (Feb. 10).
Gabrielle Lee said she, her boyfriend Mark Whittaker Allen, and three of their friends had just left their hotel and were walking near the intersection of St. Charles Avenue and Canal Street around 2 a.m., when they noticed a woman who appeared to be homeless being heckled by people hanging out the windows of a party bus.
When one of their friends, Matt Wasserman, approached the woman and told the hecklers to stop, Lee said a group of the passengers exited the bus and started yelling at them. Lee said almost everyone in the group appeared to be teenage boys. As they were walking away, Allen was attacked from behind by one of boys, who punched him in the face and knocked him unconscious. Wassterman was also hit, as was the woman being heckled, Lee said.
The teens ran back onto the bus, which then drove off, Lee said. She said the bus circled back around the scene twice before driving off.
New Orleans police confirmed the attack to FOX 8 Wednesday afternoon. According to NOPD spokesman Andy Cunningham, responding officers stopped the bus while investigating the attack but were told the attackers were no longer on board. The owner of the party bus company Tweezy Entertainment told FOX 8 everyone one the bus was 21 or older and the suspects did not get back on board after the attack.
