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where else can you enjoy jazz and gun play at the same time – yes, bourbon street, new orleans.
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Bourbon Street workers rally around police after fatal shooting 
Published: Monday, July 11, 2011, 10:00 PM     Updated: Monday, July 11, 2011, 10:27 PM
 By Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune 
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People who make their living on the city's most iconic street seemed shaken Monday but unanimous in the view that a New Orleans police officer did the right thing by shooting a 25-year-old New Iberia man early Sunday morning outside a Bourbon Street club.
I've become totally desensitized," Pinkeee said, ticking off fallen service-industry colleagues during the past few years: the woman whose boyfriend killed her and tried to cook her; the female bartender shot by teens as she walked on Gov. Nicholls Street; the Pat O'Brien's bartender killed a few months ago as he drove through the Quarter on his way home; the stripper found naked and dead in an abandoned Mid-City building.

"It comes with the turf," Pinkeee said. "The Quarter is a cross between Sodom and Gomorrah and the Wild, Wild West."

Quarter workers say when they walk home at night, they avoid the 100 block of Bourbon, which is known to be rough. That block saw gunplay on Friday night, when two men were shot about 11 p.m. 
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