The horse and Jones had become YouTube sensations with a dance routine in 2012. Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson was present as well, to extol Ace and the force's other four-legged officers: "They are our partners."Īce, 20, died Aug. "This is going to be really short," he said, as comrades comforted him with pats on the back. Jones placed a photo of Ace at a temporary memorial - a Police Department truck and horse trailer festooned with flowers, other photos and Ace's harness - then rode back up the aisle.īetween sobs, Jones tried to address the gathering. The True Blue Brass Band softly played a dirge. With the police mounted and canine units lining on one side of the 100 block, in front of the Hustler Hollywood erotica store, and standing officers on the other side, in front of the Krystal daiquiri shop, Ace's longtime partner, officer Joseph Jones, rode a different police horse, Dude, down the aisle. In a Bourbon Street memorial service, the New Orleans Police Department paid tribute Thursday night to one of its most famous officers, Ace, a horse as adept at dancing as it was at crowd control.
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