Remember when the Mardi Gras was a wonderful festival. Today this festival is destroyed - it has become a festival for Gay Pride, Prostitutes, Drunks, Drug Addicts, and if these people had a chance they would destroy the annual March of St. Patrick Knights??? Gay Pride wants the boy scouts? Well look at what these perverts did to New Orleans which is nothing but a cess pool - they are the destroyers and they reek of death - let them take their little Gay Pride Flags and AIDS and HIV and march with Jesse Jackson and his street people - note how this element is attacking evey decent organization and keep in mind the children at their target. Saba
Source: http://www.app.com/news/backstories.pl?id=420994&paper=0 For police, night was like war Published in the Asbury Park Press 7/18/01 By JAMES W. PRADO ROBERTS and PETER EICHENBAUM STAFF WRITERS ASBURY PARK -- Police Detective Eugene Dello couldn't believe his senses: The sight of a gun's muzzle flash and a wounded man falling to the ground just across a street corner from where he and eight or 10 uniformed police officers stood. The distinctive "pop pop bang bang" sounds of two different guns firing just a block away. The sharp smell of gunpowder. And, as he instinctively ran toward the gunfire, the gritty noise of other officers' voices over the police radios as they chased yet another armed man down an alley and, later, as more reports of gunfire came in from across the city. All this Dello experienced within a dozen or so minutes, much of it within a few city blocks on Sunday night. The remnants of a so-called "Greekfest" had degenerated into armed robbery and mass fear as much of the estimated 3,000 in the crowd of young people panicked, running for shelter from danger. "Would you say this is comparable to war?" Dello asked as he and other officers at headquarters recounted the events of a very long Sunday and expressed their frustration that they had to work such a day when they've been working without a contract with the city since 1997. "It was just disbelief -- you never expect as a cop to witness such things," said Dello, 39, who first worked as an Asbury Park patrolman in 1994 and was promoted to detective two years ago. Dello's father, William Dello Sr., who died in 1994, was a retired city officer. "Someone shot right in front of you -- to hear the story is one thing, to live it is another. I never went through something like that, where you were actually running through gunpowder and smoke. We were chasing people with guns, and we could have shot them. "I'll always remember it." The night might not have turned out this way. When 15 Manalapan police officers ended their eight-hour shift at 8 p.m., leaving some 71 Asbury Park officers and 10 officers from the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office to oversee the festival's end, crowds were peacefully clearing the boardwalk. There was no inkling that the night would turn ugly, Dello said. "But at that time at the beachfront, we had no idea that it was going to be Mardi Gras on Main Street," he said. The later the hour, however, the larger the crowds seemed to grow. As the revelers moved slowly toward Main Street, he saw bottles thrown at police officers, with some struck by glass shards. He watched while some in the crowds with video cameras taped police while others tried to bait officers into some form of misconduct. "For no Asbury Park officer to be charged with using excessive force, and for (city) officers not to use their guns, these officers should be commended," Dello said. "And these are guys who have been working four years without a raise. Each officer deserves a medal." Monmouth County Police Director Michael Dowling and Monmouth County Prosecutor John Kaye praised the efforts of the law enforcement personnel who were caught in the cross-fire. "The officers showed incredible bravery throughout this incident," Kaye said. "They went toward the gunfire while people were running the other way." Kaye described how people were "huddled" at the feet of police officers as bullets whizzed through the air. Dowling, who ran down Main Street Sunday night in pursuit of suspects with Dello and other officers, praised his officers "who protected people at great risk to their own safety." Kaye also cited the actions of Barry Graves, the off-duty detective who shot an armed suspect three times. Kaye noted that Graves, who is black, showed unusual bravery. Graves, 37, a former Marine, was in plain clothes as he stood over Deloach with his gun in hand and could have been shot himself if the next officers to arrive hadn't recognized him or seen the badge around his neck. "Minority officers in similar situations tend to get hurt themselves by their (colleagues)," Kaye said. James W. Prado Roberts: (732) 643-4223; or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Published on July 18, 2001 Published on July 17, 2001
