Kevin Green walked his dog near the Lake Pontchartrain shoreline Sunday morning and, like many residents of New Orleans this weekend, thought about the squandered promise of Mayor LaToya Cantrell.

A neighborhood activist-turned anti-establishment politician, Cantrell once seemed like a breath of fresh air for New Orleans, said Green, a retired police officer who grew up in Gert Town and the Lower 9th Ward. She was someone who would “speak her mind” about problems in the city whether people wanted to hear it or not.

“I thought she was a really good person at first,” said Green as dog, Parker, sniffed around. “But with decisions you make, consequences come behind them.”

Two days after a federal grand jury handed up an 18-count indictment against Cantrell and her former bodyguard Jeffr

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