U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-Madisonville, said in a speech on the Senate floor that the “knuckleheads” in the Krewe of Carrollton who are accused of aggressively throwing objects at police officers should be prosecuted.
“I want to choose my words carefully here because I love Louisiana,” Kennedy said in the speech Wednesday. “But sometimes some of my people do dumb things. We’re all human. And something just happened at Mardi Gras that turned my stomach.”
Krewe organizers said 41 people were removed from a float midway through the parade. The New Orleans Police Department said “beads were intentionally thrown from the float in an aggressive manner toward officers along the parade route.”…