New Orleans councilman wants common sense, not police, to stop bad Mardi Gras behavior

Tens of thousands of riders and hundreds of thousands of paradegoers took part in Carnival celebrations in New Orleans. Based on online comments and our interviews with some of them, those revelers overwhelmingly had a wonderful time and obeyed the rules regarding what you could and couldn’t do along the parade route.

But a handful of paradegoers caused headaches for some by taping off areas of neutral ground and claiming those spots as their personal property. Now, one New Orleans city councilman says the city may need to consider taking action against those scofflaws in the future.

“There’s something that we can do,” Councilman Eugene Green told WWL’s Tommy Tucker…

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