By Drew Broach | Deputy metro editor BREAKING NEWS: An off-duty New Orleans police officer was killed in a double shooting at a Houston restaurant on Saturday night. Several law enforcement sources identified the officer as veteran detective Everett Briscoe. ON THE OUTS: By all accounts, the April 21, 2020, police raid was botched. Two intelligence officers, neither wearing a police uniform or body armor nor notifying the SWAT team for help, burst into an apartment in New Orleans East to arrest a domestic violence suspect. Their gambit ended in a shootout with a man known for taunting cops. The fallout: Four officers were suspended, and one of them, controversial 7th District commander Mike Glasser, has launched a counteroffensive alleging that the Police Department's Public Integrity Bureau is targeting him while ignoring misdeeds of other supervisors. CHOO, CHOO!: Oh, sure, it was hot Saturday. But not so oppressive as to keep hundreds of train buffs from venturing to the rear of Audubon Park in New Orleans to ooh and aah over a rare operational steam locomotive - and a really big one at that. MAKING AMENDS: In a New Orleans courtroom in 2018, a prosecutor called a defense attorney a liar. The defense attorney responded by threatening to punch the prosecutor, and later filed a defamation suit against him. That was during the tenure of District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro. Now Cannizzaro's successor, Jason Williams, has settled the suit for $15,000, marking another break with the office's policies of the past. You'll find these stories and many more in the Front Page and on NOLA.com. Thanks for starting your day with us. D.B. |