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Louisiana Firefighter Handcuffed for Not Moving Truck During 911 Call

Louisiana Firefighter Handcuffed for Not Moving Truck During 911 Call

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NEW ROADS, La. (WBRZ) -

A New Roads Police Officer may have violated the law when he handcuffed and detained a volunteer firefighter and first responder Monday night during an emergency.

Witnesses said it stemmed from the firefighter refusing to move his fire truck because he was rendering aid to the patient.

The call came in around 10 p.m. in the 100 block of Cherry Street. Joyce Harris watched everything unfold at her neighbor's house.

"This is very disheartening, very disappointing and very embarrassing," Harris said.

Surveillance cameras at the Housing Authority in New Roads captured it all. A volunteer firefighter was first on the scene on Cherry Street. In the video, you can clearly see his emergency lights flashing while his fire truck was parked.

Paramedics arrived seconds later, followed by a New Roads Police officer.

Harris said that the moment the New Roads officer showed up he demanded that the volunteer firefighter move his truck from the street as the lights flashed. When he didn't, he was placed in handcuffs and put in the back of a police car for nearly 15 minutes.

"I think what his problem was, was an ego thing," Harris said. "He's not listening to me because I'm in authority and he should have moved faster when I told him to. I don't think it was fair. I don't think that's right."

At least one paramedic who could not go on camera told News 2 it was one of the most unprofessional things he's witnessed in his career.

News 2 has learned the New Roads Police Department did not pick up a copy of the surveillance video that we obtained. Police Chief Kevin McDonald said the issue has been resolved, but he wouldn't elaborate.

News 2 waited for nearly two hours trying to talk to McDonald on camera. Ultimately he told News 2 his higher ups instructed him not to do an interview, then walked out and pulled off in his SUV.

McDonald did say the officer in question won't be disciplined. However, people like Harris believe he should be.

"I think he should be fired," Harris said.

According to state law, RS 14:327, "It shall be unlawful for any person...intentionally hindering, delaying, hampering, interfering with, or impeding the progress of any regularly employed member of the fire department...or any volunteer fireman."

If convicted of violating that law, there are hefty fines and possible jail time.

After Monday night's incident, Harris now worries about what could happen the next time there's an emergency.

"They are supposed to protect and serve life, and here they are arresting the people that's trying to help," Harris said. "I didn't think that was fair and right."

The New Roads Fire chief did not return our calls for a comment on this story.
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FBI storms 91-year-old Indiana man's home, reviewing his artifacts stash

FBI storms 91-year-old Indiana man's home, reviewing his artifacts stash

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- FBI agents on Thursday were still removing thousands of artifacts ranging from arrowheads to shrunken heads and Ming Dynasty jade from a house in rural central Indiana.

A 91-year-old man amassed the vast collection over several decades, perhaps since he began digging up arrowheads as a child.

People who had toured Don Miller's Rush County home years before the FBI's arrival Wednesday described it as a homemade museum containing diverse items including fossils, Civil War memorabilia and what the owner claimed to be a chunk of concrete from the bunker in which Adolf Hitler committed suicide toward the end of World War II.

"It was just like a big chunk of cement from when they demolished it or whatever," said Joe Runnebohm, whose plumbing business did work in one of Miller's houses several years ago.

Agents of the FBI's art crime team began loading trucks with artifacts that Donald Miller acquired over the decades from sites as varied as China, Russia and New Guinea. However, the FBI was careful not to say whether they believed Miller had knowingly broken any laws. The FBI's aim is to catalog the artifacts and return them to their countries of origin.

"We're collecting and analyzing with the goal of repatriation," FBI Special Agent Drew Northern said.

The laws regarding the removal or collection of cultural artifacts are extremely complex. State, federal and international laws are involved, Patty Gerstenblith, a professor of law at DePaul University in Chicago. Much depends on whether objects are considered stolen or were imported with a license, and international treaties dating back as far as 1987 come into play. The United States has various agreements with 15 countries that prohibit importation of items that were illegally acquired, she said, and some nations such as Egypt forbid the export of any cultural objects that were dug from the ground.

Phone calls to a number listed in Miller's name rang busy or out of service Thursday.

It wasn't immediately clear how Miller acquired some of the items, but those who know him said he had been collecting since childhood.

"He's been digging, I'm sure, since he was old enough to dig," said Andi Essex, whose business repaired water damage in Miller's basement a few years ago. None of the artifacts was damaged, she said.

Miller was known as a world traveler, and those who know him said his visitors included Australian aborigines.

Miller made no secret of his collection, those who know him said. He took schoolchildren on tours of his amateur museum, which even contained human remains, they said. A 150-foot underground tunnel linking two homes on Miller's property in Rush County, a rural Indiana area whose largest city has a population of about 6,000 people, was adorned with a 60-foot, 4-foot-wide anaconda snakeskin, Runnebohm said. Carefully labeled glass showcases boasted hundreds of Native American arrowheads, along with human skulls - including one with an arrowhead stuck in it. Upstairs was a pipe organ that Miller played for visitors.

"He never tried to hide anything," Runnebohm said. "Everything he had he was real proud of, and he knew what everything was."
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11-year-old building tree fort says officer pulled gun on him, friends | www.wsbtv.com

Diamant ran what Omari told him past Edgar Dillard, whose wife, according to 911 records, called in from the next subdivision to complain the boys were "chopping off tree limbs."

"Yeah, that's pretty shocking to hear that a gun was pulled on a child," Dillard said.

And the reason for his wife's call: "There were falling hazards, tripping hazards, all types of hazards, so No. 1 was concern for the children and concern for the environment," Dillard said.
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White man: "Don't taze me, bro..."
Black man: "Don't shoot me, bro.."

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