WWL talk host Newell Normand offered a strongly-worded rebuke to New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell on his Tuesday morning show, calling Cantrell a "coward" for not even being present in court for a hearing over whether picture taken of her constituted "stalking."
“You felt strongly enough about filing this petition, right?” Normand asked. “So why wouldn't you go into court? Why wouldn't you get the defendant in this case the right to face their accuser? Mayor. Again, the arrogance just comes out and I don't know why this judge would allow these shenanigans to go on. Right? The mayor summoned a citizen into a court of law by filing. A legal claim. The citizen has to stand there. The citizen has to expend dollars.”
Normand called the suit “flawed on its face” and said he believed Cantrell’s reasoning for filing suit was to “intimidate” Anne Breaud, the woman whose photo of Cantrell enjoying an outdoor meal with former bodyguard Jeffrey Vappie went viral.
“This was a complete total breakdown in emotional intelligence,” the host continued. “The ability to manage one owns emotions and the emotions of others. She feels she was wrong because of the goo eyed picture, and she understands that there's going to be potential further sanctions as a result of this happenstance. So we take it out on the citizen who actually takes the picture. And then the judge accommodates the mayor by allowing her to never have to enter court. This is a farce.”
To hear more of Normand’s stern rebuff of the mayor, click the link above.
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