'This is what love looks like': Congo Square musicians honor drummer Portia Pollock

'This is what love looks like': Congo Square musicians honor drummer Portia Pollock
Pollock, 60, was killed in carjacking Tuesday
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Updated: 10:18 PM CDT Jun 13, 2021
Pollock, 60, was killed in carjacking Tuesday
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Updated: 10:18 PM CDT Jun 13, 2021
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IT’S NOT ABOUT HEAT OR COLD. THAT’S WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE. CONGO SQUARES DRUMMERS SHOWING LOVE THE BEST WAY THEY KNOW HOW RFO ONE OF THEIR OWN PORSCHE POLLOCK DDIE TUESDAY. SHEAS W LEAVING HER SEVENTH WARD HOME WHEN SHE WAS STABBED IN A CARJACKING. HER DEATH IS PROMPTED CALLS FOR JUSTICE, BUT ALSOLS CAL TO CELEATBRE HER LIFE HARRISON GOLDEN’S LIVE IN CONGO SQUARE WITHOW H POLLOCK’S FELWLO MUSICIANS CAME TOGETHER IN HER HONOR HARRISON. WELL SHERMAN PORTIA PAULA COULD TURN A WASHING MACHINE INTO A DRUM SET AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA. SHE TURNED A HOUSE WITHOUT FLOORS AND WITHOUT RUNNING WATER INTO A HOME. TONIGHT THE PEOPLE. SHE LOVETUD RNED HEARTACHE INTO MUSIC. BUT WE ARE CELEBRATING. RHE EXISTENCE ALL THOSE YEARS AND LOVE WINS LEIF WINS EVERY SUNDAY FOR 33 YEARS THE WEEKLY DRUM CIRCLE IN CONGO SQUARE WAS PORSCHE POLLOCK’S LIFE. ON THIS FIRST SUNYDA WITHOUT THE WOMAN THEY CALLED MAMA PORSCHE MORE THAN A HUNDRED DRUMMERS AND DANCERS BRAVE TEARS AND SWEAT. KEEP THE BEAT ALIVE. OUR FEETO T SEE SO MANY PEOPLE CAME OUT IN SUPPORT OF HER. T SHE DESERVES IT FATIMA MUSE IS POLLUX. NIECE. FIEEL SO REPETITIVE BY SAYING SHE WAS A GOOD PERSON. BECAUSE THAT WORD ISN’T BIG ENOUGH. UM BECAUSE SHE WAS SO MUCH MEOR A SISTER FOR ME IN SO MANY AT LEAST. SEE DRUMMERS ARE HERE. WE JUST LOVED HER. WE LOVE HER SO MUCH. LUTHER GRAY HAS KNOWN POLLOCK SINCE HER FIRST DRUM CIRCLE IN 1988. WE LEARNED FROM HER HOTO HOW TO SEE THE GIFTS OF A PEON IN A WAY, THAT’SY V SUBTLE. I LEARNED HOW A SMALL MATTERS AND POLLUX FAMILY SEES ANOTHER LESSON. A CALL TO MAKE THE CITY SHE LOVED. A LITTLE SAF I’D RATHER HAVE HER HERE. I’D RATR HAHEVE HER HERE MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD. BU IF PORTIA HAD HAS TO BE THE SPARK FOR CHANGE. WILL TAKE IT. AND ON FRIDAY POLICE ARRESTED BRIAN ANDREW IN CHARGED HIM WITH SECOND-DREEGE MURDER FOR POLLOCK’S DEATH A COURT RECORDS SHOW. HE HAS AN ARRTES RECORD DATING BACK TO 1991 AND PASSED CONVICTIONS FOR DRUG POSSESSION ILLEGALLY, CARRYING A WEAPON AND AGGRAVATED BURGLARY NOW AS FOR POLLOCK, HER FUNERAL WILL BE AT ONE PM SATURDAY THAT WILL BE AT RHODES FUNERAL HOME ON WASHINGTON AVENUE. FOR NOW REPORTING LIVE

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