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Some Interesting Louisiana Police History
Posted on 5/16/15 at 5:19 am
Posted on 5/16/15 at 5:19 am
Some interesting moments in the history of the BRPD and the EBRSO:
Miscellaneous Louisiana Police History:
You can find a lot more HERE.
It's amazing how far we have come.
ETA: Just because I don't want to start another thread, the new BRPD uniforms made their public debut yesterday. They look like fricking shite.
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In 1911, Baton Rouge Chief of Police J.B. Hare attempted to intervene in a dispute between an officer and his supervisor. The officer had been suspended due to his tendency to report to work drunk. When Chief Hare intervened, the officer shot and killed him. The officer was then shot and killed by another officer.
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In March of 1924, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Robert Day was fatally shot as he raided a gambling establishment.
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On October 24, 1931, Chief of Detectives Frank Schoonmaker was murdered while searching for two suspects who had just stolen $11 and a pair of shoes from a man. The suspect who shot him was hung less than a year and a half later.
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On November 13, 1963, Juvenile Officer Charles H. Hurt of the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office was shot and killed while searching a wooded area near a high school for kids playing hooky from school. One of the 17-year-old students emerged with a pistol and murdered Officer Hurt. The suspect is serving life in prison. (Anyone remember this or know which high school?)
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April 6, 1984 - Baton Rouge Police Lieutenant D'Abadie was killed in a motorcycle accident while on duty. This is significant because his son is now the Chief of Police.
Miscellaneous Louisiana Police History:
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On May 9, 1943, Trooper James Brownfield was killed after his motorcycle struck a stray cow in the roadway on US 171 near Converse, Louisiana. Passersby took Trooper Brownfield to the local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries the following day.
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October 16, 1890 - New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy was assassinated by members of the New Orleans mob. He was on his way home from a police department board meeting when he was ambushed and killed. It is believed he was killed to prevent testimony in a trial later in the week.
A total of nine men were charged with his murder. Six of the men were acquitted and three others were cleared in mistrials. All nine suspects and two other men were lynched by angry citizens after the trials.
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Jailer Paul Sloan of the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office was fatally shot on September 27, 1900 while attempting to hold back an angry mob attempting to break into the prison to get a prisoner.
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On August 26, 1978, Henderson Police Department Patrolman Julius Courville was shot and killed while attempting to quell a domestic dispute. It was his first day on the job.
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On June 17, 1910, Rayville Police Department Town Marshal Christopher Chenault was murdered by the town blacksmith.
The suspect was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death July 9, 1910. His attorney immediately appealed his conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court. Early the next morning an angry mob broke into the Rayville Jail, dragged the suspect from his cell, and hanged him from a tree on the same spot where he killed Marshal Chenault. A note was found pinned to the dead man's clothing which read, "This is the outcome of the appeal".
You can find a lot more HERE.
It's amazing how far we have come.
ETA: Just because I don't want to start another thread, the new BRPD uniforms made their public debut yesterday. They look like fricking shite.
This post was edited on 5/16/15 at 5:25 am
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Posted on 5/16/15 at 5:40 am to TigersSEC2010
Trooper
Donald Charles Cleveland
Louisiana State Police, Louisiana
End of Watch: Saturday, July 2, 1977
Trooper Cleveland was shot and killed during a traffic stop near Lafayette, Louisiana. The suspect had just been released from prison for a murder he committed while he was a juvenile. The suspect was sentenced to death and was the last prisoner to be executed by the electric chair in Louisiana.
RIP Trooper Cleveland
Donald Charles Cleveland
Louisiana State Police, Louisiana
End of Watch: Saturday, July 2, 1977
Trooper Cleveland was shot and killed during a traffic stop near Lafayette, Louisiana. The suspect had just been released from prison for a murder he committed while he was a juvenile. The suspect was sentenced to death and was the last prisoner to be executed by the electric chair in Louisiana.
RIP Trooper Cleveland
Posted on 5/16/15 at 6:19 am to TigersSEC2010
And from elsewhere...
A whole bunch of other interesting historical stuff on that site.
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Sheriff William Brady and Deputy George Hindman were shot and killed by the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid and his gang as they walked down the street in front of the county courthouse. Billy the Kid was later shot and killed.
The outlaw gang was responsible for the murders of several other law enforcement officers over the course of several years.
Sheriff Brady had served as a Captain in the 1st New Mexico Cavalry and was survived by his wife and nine children. He is buried with Deputy Hindman on private property on what was Sheriff Brady's ranch east of Lincoln, New Mexico at the Brady-Hindman burial site.
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Marshal Fred White was shot and killed by a group of five outlaws who were shooting up the town. When Marshal White asked the leader to stop shooting the man walked up to him. The man's gun discharged as Marshal White grabbed the barrel and pulled it towards him.
The suspect was taken into custody by the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp and two other Earp brothers.
The suspect was acquitted of Marshal White's murder after Marshal White provided deathbed testimony that the shooting was an accident. However, the suspect and his fellow gang members were all later shot and killed by Wyatt Earp and his posse.
Marshal White had served in law enforcement for 5 years. He is buried in Row 6, Boothill Cemetery, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona.
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Special Marshal Mike Williams was accidentally shot and killed by City Marshal Wild Bill Hickock during a large disturbance in the city streets. One of the people in the disturbance exchanged shots with the Marshal. Special Marshal Williams heard the shots and was coming to the assistance of Marshal Hickock. As Special Marshal Williams came around the corner of a building Marshal Hickock mistook him for another suspect and shot him in the head twice.
Marshall Hickock was then killed in 1876.
Special Marshal Williams was survived by his wife and is buried in Kansas City Missouri and is reported to have been a Kansas City policeman prior to this incident.
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Deputy Malcolm Davis was killed by Clyde Barrow as he and other deputies were staking out a house waiting for members of the Bonnie and Clyde Gang.
Deputy Davis is buried in Grapevine Cemetery, Grapevine, Tarrant County, Texas.
The Bonnie and Clyde Gang was responsible for the murder of law enforcement officers in four states - Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas - between 1932 and 1934. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow started their criminal career by robbing banks and quickly became notorious murderers wanted for the murders of nine law enforcement officers.
The two criminals were finally shot and killed in Louisiana when they were ambushed by a task force of Texas and Louisiana officers.
A whole bunch of other interesting historical stuff on that site.
Posted on 5/16/15 at 7:09 am to TigersSEC2010
The new uniforms are straight out of Robocop.
Posted on 5/16/15 at 7:25 am to T
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The new uniforms are straight out of Robocop.
They're terrible and they look like BDU's. I actually like the gray and blue standard uniform.
Posted on 5/16/15 at 8:29 am to TigersSEC2010
On May 22, 2004, Lieutenant Vickie Wax was shot and killed with her own service weapon during her attempt at handcuffing a shoplifting suspect (at the Walmart formerly located at Acadian and Perkins).
She had succeeded in placing a handcuff on one hand, and was attempting to cuff the other hand, when a struggle ensued. Lieutenant Wax was knocked down and she lost possession of her weapon. She was then shot. A store security guard and a customer, who had assisted her during the struggle, were also shot and seriously wounded.
The suspect escaped by carjacking a vehicle but later turned himself in. He was charged with first degree murder, two counts of first degree attempted murder, and several other charges. He was convicted of the charges and sentenced to death.
Lieutenant Wax had served with the Baton Rouge Police Department for 27 years.
Her killer, Shedran "Fat Boy" Williams had been released from a five-year sentence only 28 days before the murder.
ETA: It's interesting because there's similarities between this case and the Michael Brown case.
She had succeeded in placing a handcuff on one hand, and was attempting to cuff the other hand, when a struggle ensued. Lieutenant Wax was knocked down and she lost possession of her weapon. She was then shot. A store security guard and a customer, who had assisted her during the struggle, were also shot and seriously wounded.
The suspect escaped by carjacking a vehicle but later turned himself in. He was charged with first degree murder, two counts of first degree attempted murder, and several other charges. He was convicted of the charges and sentenced to death.
Lieutenant Wax had served with the Baton Rouge Police Department for 27 years.
Her killer, Shedran "Fat Boy" Williams had been released from a five-year sentence only 28 days before the murder.
ETA: It's interesting because there's similarities between this case and the Michael Brown case.
This post was edited on 5/16/15 at 8:32 am
Posted on 5/16/15 at 8:41 am to TigersSEC2010
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This is the outcome of the appeal".
Solid work Rayvillians. The only thing better would have been adding a bitch to the end.
Posted on 5/16/15 at 8:47 am to LSUballs
Yep.
Posted on 5/16/15 at 8:55 am to TigersSEC2010
I believe this is the one I read a book about. Pretty wild. Was kind of neat to read all the street names this manhunt occurred on in relation to the neighborhoods we see today.
Robert Charles Riots 1900 New Orleans
This is just the beginning. Very interesting and violent event.
Robert Charles Riots 1900 New Orleans
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At approximately 11 p.m. on July 23, 1900, three white police officers, Sergeant Jules C. Aucion, August T. Mora, and Joseph D. Cantrelle, investigated “two suspicious looking negroes” sitting on a porch on the 2800 block of Dryades Street in a predominantly white neighborhood. They arrived to find Charles and his roommate, 19-year-old Leonard Pierce, at the scene. The policemen questioned the two men, demanding to know what they "were doing and how long they had been there." One of the two men replied that they were "waiting for a friend." Charles then stood up, which the police believed to be an aggressive move. Mora grabbed him and the two struggled. Mora hit Charles with his billet. Mora and Charles pulled guns and exchanged shots. Reports vary on who drew first; both men received non-lethal gunshot wounds to the legs. Charles fled the scene to his residence where he was currently living, leaving a trail of blood.[7] Pierce, also armed, was left at the gunpoint of a police officer when Charles ran.
This is just the beginning. Very interesting and violent event.
This post was edited on 5/16/15 at 9:02 am
Posted on 5/16/15 at 9:06 am to TigersSEC2010
My dad is a retired LSP Trooper. He quit around 86. He was undercover narc for years, deep cover stuff, had to receive quite a bit of training at Quantico. He drove a motorcycle, had long hippy hair, attitude, the whole 9. He has a shadow box with his fake ids, pics and a .357. This was the 70s. He was good too, but saw his share of trouble. His partner took a bullet right in front of him as they raided a drug house in Lafayette. Died on the spot.
He has A LOT of stories. He did tell my sister that he slept with over a 100 womenz while he was a cop, so I guess that made him a shitty husband to my mom.
Oddly enough it was after he became an insurance agent that he faced his biggest challenge....
we moved to a town in south Louisiana for 1 year in the late 80s. One night, late leaving the office, a man in a ski mask with a thick coonass accent approached my dad and put a gun on the back of his neck and told him to get in his car and instructed him to drive down some country gravel roads. He Kept telling dad he was gonna blow his head off. So, my dad, wanting to keep his head in tact, jumped out of the car going 55 mph. The car crashed into a ditch, and my dad was able to escape with minor injuries. He went into a grocery store close by and called the cops.
To this day he doesn't know why that happened... my money is on a jealous husband but who the hell knows.
The coonass in the ski mask disappeared into a field and was never found.
He has A LOT of stories. He did tell my sister that he slept with over a 100 womenz while he was a cop, so I guess that made him a shitty husband to my mom.
Oddly enough it was after he became an insurance agent that he faced his biggest challenge....
we moved to a town in south Louisiana for 1 year in the late 80s. One night, late leaving the office, a man in a ski mask with a thick coonass accent approached my dad and put a gun on the back of his neck and told him to get in his car and instructed him to drive down some country gravel roads. He Kept telling dad he was gonna blow his head off. So, my dad, wanting to keep his head in tact, jumped out of the car going 55 mph. The car crashed into a ditch, and my dad was able to escape with minor injuries. He went into a grocery store close by and called the cops.
To this day he doesn't know why that happened... my money is on a jealous husband but who the hell knows.
The coonass in the ski mask disappeared into a field and was never found.
This post was edited on 5/16/15 at 9:09 am
Posted on 5/16/15 at 9:11 am to AthensTiger
fricking Dalton Prejean...
Cleveland stopped Prejean's brother over something petty, a broken or burned out tail light or brake light, I think. He was writing the brother a ticket, when Dalton exited the car and shot him. He said he did it because Cleveland was "treating his brother rough."
He killed a cabbie as a juvenile and had been released just a short time, maybe a few months, before he murdered Cleveland.
The guy was legitimately retarded. His IQ was about 60. But what the frick was going on in that kid's head?
Sr Helen Prejean (no relation) made him famous in her book "Dead Man Walking."
Cleveland stopped Prejean's brother over something petty, a broken or burned out tail light or brake light, I think. He was writing the brother a ticket, when Dalton exited the car and shot him. He said he did it because Cleveland was "treating his brother rough."
He killed a cabbie as a juvenile and had been released just a short time, maybe a few months, before he murdered Cleveland.
The guy was legitimately retarded. His IQ was about 60. But what the frick was going on in that kid's head?
Sr Helen Prejean (no relation) made him famous in her book "Dead Man Walking."
Posted on 5/16/15 at 9:20 am to TigersSEC2010
Police being equipped with unis and equipment and being trained for eventual Marshal Law enforcement.
Posted on 5/16/15 at 9:34 am to Honest Tune
If your dad worked out of Troop I during that time frame, my father and him worked together. My dad retired after 21 years with the LSP in 1983. He was involved in the man hunt following Trooper Clevelands murder. The story he tells is that had it not been for other agencies being present when Dalton Prejean was found, he would have been shot and a gun would have been "found" on him. He also tells lots of interesting stories about having to protect civil rights marchers as they went through the Livingston Parish area on the way to the State Capitol. Fwiw, he never killed a dog!
This post was edited on 5/16/15 at 9:36 am
Posted on 5/16/15 at 9:41 am to TigersSEC2010
That is not the new uniform.
Posted on 5/16/15 at 9:51 am to yccsmf
My old man was F Troop out of Monroe but he floated around a broad swath of the state. Those dudes were absolute gunslingers back in the day. Lot less time spent looking at computers and what not during investigations, more boots on the ground undercover operations.
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