NOPD checkpoints are back in action

Be very careful if you get caught up in one of these.

NEW ORLEANS - The NOPD's Traffic Division will conduct an upcoming sobriety checkpoint within Orleans Parish.

The checkpoint will be in operation from Friday, July 27, 2018 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. on July 28, 2018.

During this time, motorists will experience minimal delays at the checkpoint and should have the proper documentation available if requested by officers (proof of vehicle insurance, driver’s license, etc.)

In addition to the normal documentation, officers may or may not be asking after your bicycle registration or perhaps even your proof of citizenship.  Try not to make them too mad. 

Gomez said neither of the arrested men identified himself as an NOPD officer when he encountered them in the Mid-City Yacht Club, which is in the 400 block of South St. Patrick Street, near his house. Gomez said both men were white, and one said he didn't like the military camouflage shirt and pants being worn by Gomez, who is Hispanic.

"He asked me if I was American. I told him yes, and he got mad because he said I was fake," said Gomez, who described himself as a U.S. native who was raised in Honduras before returning to live in New Orleans.

Just this week Mitch Landrieu was asked whether or not the ICE brute squads terrorizing immigrant families all over the country should be abolished. In addition to indicating he felt worse for Trump officials being confronted in restaurants, he also said ICE is really like NOPD.  Turns out he was right about that one.