City Park golf course protester falls from the tree he was living in

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Johnathan "Lloyd" Boover, the man living in a City Park tree out of protest over a proposed golf complex, fell from his perch Tuesday (March 24) and was taken away in an ambulance, witnesses said.

Boover fell from the tree shortly before 11 a.m., said Marilyn Eyer, a Gentilly resident who has followed Boover's tree sit-in since he started March 13. Boover was carried away on a stretcher into a waiting ambulance, witnesses said, which then left the area.

A police officer -- possibly an Orleans Parish Sheriff's deputy -- assigned to keep watch over Boover quickly rushed to his aid, witnesses said. The sheriff's office had obtained a warrant for his arrest on charges of disturbing the peace and criminal trespassing.

I said 'Hi, Lloyd,'" Eyer recalled. "He waved and hit the ground."

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