BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Nearly a dozen people are facing charges after a huge fight broke out at Perkins Rowe Saturday night.
East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputies say the brawl started with a commotion outside the Barnes and Noble around 9 p.m.
They say a tire on a security golf cart blew and some people mistook the sound for a gunshot.
Several people were detained, many taken into custody for breaking the 8 p.m. curfew for minors.
In all, ten people were charged with disturbing the peace.
Seeing the video, it’s obvious the fight was a group of young black males.. Why does security tolerate their presence?? They’re obviously not there to buy anything.
If the development security doesn’t get a grip on this, whites will abandon it in droves, feeling unsafe there. With bangers as their only customers, they will go under quickly.
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Nearly a dozen people are facing charges after a huge fight broke out at Perkins Rowe Saturday night.
East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputies say the brawl started with a commotion outside the Barnes and Noble around 9 p.m.
They say a tire on a security golf cart blew and some people mistook the sound for a gunshot.
Several people were detained, many taken into custody for breaking the 8 p.m. curfew for minors.
In all, ten people were charged with disturbing the peace.
Seeing the video, it’s obvious the fight was a group of young black males.. Why does security tolerate their presence?? They’re obviously not there to buy anything.
I see you must have just returned from the KKK rally. How was it?
I had no idea young black males were not permitted to purchase goods and services in our capitalistic society.
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Nearly a dozen people are facing charges after a huge fight broke out at Perkins Rowe Saturday night.
East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputies say the brawl started with a commotion outside the Barnes and Noble around 9 p.m.
They say a tire on a security golf cart blew and some people mistook the sound for a gunshot.
Several people were detained, many taken into custody for breaking the 8 p.m. curfew for minors.
In all, ten people were charged with disturbing the peace.
Seeing the video, it’s obvious the fight was a group of young black males.. Why does security tolerate their presence?? They’re obviously not there to buy anything.
If I remember correctly this is exactly what happened to Catfish Town, about three years after it opened, and the folks stopped coming.
(Frat boys hate when the sorority chicks start digging the skateboard punks. If you were looking for your girlfriend in 1990, you’d better look at Catfish Town.)
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Nearly a dozen people are facing charges after a huge fight broke out at Perkins Rowe Saturday night.
East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputies say the brawl started with a commotion outside the Barnes and Noble around 9 p.m.
They say a tire on a security golf cart blew and some people mistook the sound for a gunshot.
Several people were detained, many taken into custody for breaking the 8 p.m. curfew for minors.
In all, ten people were charged with disturbing the peace.
Seeing the video, it’s obvious the fight was a group of young black males.. Why does security tolerate their presence?? They’re obviously not there to buy anything.
I see you must have just returned from the KKK rally. How was it?
I had no idea young black males were not permitted to purchase goods and services in our capitalistic society.
Well of course fred, just good boys having a good time.. That and disagreeing with obama just proves I"m a racist!!
Sorry to disappoint Maurepas, but Patfish Town died of over priced leases after about the first year. Don’t worry Audubon Live will do the same.
Oh and I never lost a girl to a skateboarder.
What Fred said is what happened. A bunch of black thugs went wild. It’s an observation of the facts. Not a judgment about black people in general.
I remember going with a group of friends, getting out the car, ordering a beer, the bartender saying $2.50, and our promptly walking back to the car, never to return. For the remainder of my time at LSU I never got further north on Highland than the Cotton Club.
Note to readers, back then $2.50 for a beer was outrageous.
An Abita Amber at The Chimes was $1.50 - a pitcher was $5. A truly great bar. Too bad success ruined it.
Still a good bar. I like the one on Coursey..
A great bar is singular, Fred. When it has more than one location it ceases being a great bar.
Met my wife at the White Horse Saloon on Highland.
A friend of mine has a stool from the Cotton Club. It was a regular hangout for the News Team at Channel 9. I remember seeing sports guy Jay Townsend there so drunk he could hardly stand up, he was pizzing on the wall. It was just after 10:30… I wondered how he did his sportscast as drunk as he was.
Perkins Rowe is (was?) supposed to be a place to stroll around. I’m still not convinced that the business model fits Baton Rouge, but if people are afraid to go there the place is doomed.
Perkins Rowe is (was?) supposed to be a place to stroll around. I’m still not convinced that the business model fits Baton Rouge, but if people are afraid to go there the place is doomed.
I’ve never been but it’s not really convenient for me to go there. It’s way out of my way.
We are out of town on the weekends at least twice a month and I won’t drive back into town during the week.
The judgement of the owners is in question as far as I’m concerned.. It’s private property, and you want people to come. So what do they do, put up parking meters all along the streets.
It’s about time somebody did something about Perkins Rowe, and I’m not talking about Tommy Spinoza’s financial situation either. Sunday Morning, a longtime reader of this blog vented to me about how PR was now hostile territory to adults, with squealing tweens and sideways D&G;hats for miles. We saw it coming months ago.
Half a year ago, when I observed unkempt youths sitting on the ground up against the side of McDonald’s passing around a joint, I knew things had gone awry with Perkins Rowe. Toss in the news coverage of the development’s financial woes and some adults decided against patronizing the lifestyle center after dark. This Saturday, it all came to a head, when a golf cart blew a tire and the crowd there thought it was a gunshot. Deputies were called in to quell the brou-ha-ha. (My friend had taken family there that night.) It begs the question: Now why would a crowd be jumpy about a gunshot, unless they were a bunch of gangbangers or squealy Hannah Montanas?!
If anything, the movie theater is the main source of problem. Cinemas attract legions of teens and the usual issues that come along with it. As of May 8, Rave Motion Pictures at the Mall of Louisiana has barred unsupervised minors from the premises after 8 PM, a move we applaud. UA Citiplace Theater has a similar policy. In a recent Business Report article, the powers that be at the Rowe said unescorted teens were “banned” after 9 PM, but its obvious neither Perkins Rowe nor law enforcement provided the necessary security presence this past weekend. It’s time the EBRSO steps up.
