The commission did not question those findings against. In fact, they explicitly acknowledge the city council proved Johnson had assaulted employees over an 11-year period.

“The commission finds that the City Council has carried its burden of showing that Ms. Johnson engaged in instances of inappropriate behavior over an 11-year period,” the commission said.

But apparently in New Orleans government, that’s not enough to be fired. According to the commission, Johnson should be reinstated because “the City Council has failed to carry its burden showing that the complained-of conduct impaired the efficient operation of the Clerk of Council’s office.”

It is unclear what ratio of sexual assault to decline in worker productivity would trigger disciplinary action against an official.

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[–] BilduEnjoyer@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The more I learn about Louisiana the more I hope for a revolution.

Not only do they have literally collapsing infrastructure (like freeway on-ramps), poison in their air and tap water, and “forbidden zones” in the country side, a cancer epidemic, there is this shit. Such a wonderful culture and people who are being tortured by big oil/capitalism.

[–] regul@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I grew up just outside of cancer alley and both my parents worked in oil/gas. I got out as soon as I could, but I still know a lot of folks who live in Nola and love it to the point where they'd never live anywhere else.

But everything you said is true, and you forgot about hurricanes and rising sea levels.

[–] SmunchBucket@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's also an apartheid police state with levels of racial oppression similar to palestine or apartheid south africa. It's got a former slave plantation that is now just a big state prison.

New orleans is an incredible city with an amazing culture despite all this. And much of south Louisiana culture too - cajun and fishing/swamp culture.

But north of southern Louisiana it becomes really a place full of evil. Shreveport is a small hell on earth.

There were protests in Jena (where the ICE prison is at that they keep sending abductees like Mahmoud Khalil to) a while ago because they tried to legally lynch some black teenagers there over a high school fight.

The racist terrorism was so bad there during the civil rights era that black folks had to formed an armed militia for self-defense called the Deacons for Defense.

Etc etc.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Aren't their schools terrible, too? Like they tanked their public schools into the ground then turned everything to charter, or was that a different state?

[–] BilduEnjoyer@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

Oh yeah. It’s bad. I’ve never been but I have a friend who just escaped and they have nothing but horror stories. I hesitate to call it third world because I don’t think that’s the best terminology, but for lack of better phrasing- Louisiana is 3rd world. It has been compared to regions of Africa in terms of corruption/lack of sanitation/services. New Orleans did not recover from Hurricane Katrina.