The NAACP branch in Terrebonne, Louisiana is blasting the police presence at a Master P concert this week. The head of the chapter claims that the officers very presence carried racial undertones and was unnecessary. There were reportedly almost 40 officers in attendance from Houma and Terrebonne's Police Departments, all wearing bulletproof vests at the City Club. Master P., Mystikal, Romeo and others were performing.
There was also a Narcotics Task Force and a SWAT team parked nearby.
The police say they were there due to other spring break events in the area, but local residents claim the police's concentration was in front of the City Club.
“It had racial overtones,” Jerome Boykin, head of Terrebonne's NAACP told The Houma Courier. “When you have white rock groups come to town you don't have this much.”
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