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☆ How New Orleans fell short in guarding against the New Year's vehicle attack, experts say
  + stars: | 2025-01-04 | by ( Laura Strickler | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +11 min
NEW ORLEANS — Vehicle attacks are a rising global terror threat that can be difficult to prevent — but the deadly assault on New Year’s revelers in New Orleans shows how a city’s efforts to protect a heavily crowded and vulnerable area can fall short, experts said. “New Orleans does have mobile vehicle barriers that are designed to block streets and sidewalks,” Don Aviv, CEO of Interfor International, told NBC News on Friday. Asked hours later whether the police had considered the possibility of a driver mounting the sidewalk on Bourbon Street, Capt. The sense of betrayal was echoed by Bourbon Street workers as they returned to their jobs this week. “It seems worse than poor planning,” said Rory Windhorst, who works at a business on Bourbon Street near the site of the attack.
Persons: Don Aviv, “, George Walker IV, Billy Nungesser, Anne Kirkpatrick, Bourbon, ”, Archer, Jesse Kirsch, Ryan Houser, Houser, George Mason University’s, “ It’s, Brian Michael Jenkins, ” Jenkins, Bollards, Bryan Tarnowski, Heald, Lejon Roberts, Roberts, Jeff Landry, ” Landry, Joseph Hauss, Hauss, Wayne Jones, ” Jones, Jones, Rory Windhorst, Laura Strickler, Daniella Silva, Bracey Harris Organizations: Interfor International, NBC News, The New York Times, Interfor, NBC, New, New Orleans police, Mardi Gras, Gov, ” New, Quarter . Police, New Orleans Police Department, ISIS, British Medical, George Mason University’s Schar, of Policy, Government, National Transportation Security Center, Mineta Transportation Institute, Bloomberg, Getty, French Quarter Management, New Orleans Department, Public, Gibraltar Perimeter Security, Las, “, Meridian Rapid Defense Group, Super Bowl, ” Locations: New Orleans, “ New Orleans, Aviv, Mardi, Bourbon, ”, ” New Orleans, Nice, France, Manhattan, Magdeburg, Germany, New York City, Year’s, Bourbon Street, Gibraltar, Washington, New York
☆ New Orleans had top-of-the-line barriers to prevent car attacks — but didn’t use them on New Year’s
  + stars: | 2025-01-02 | by ( Laura Strickler | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
The L-shaped Archer barriers that were installed one day later are portable, reusable and designed to stop a car that is careening toward a pedestrian-only area. Archer barriers were installed on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Thursday. George Walker IV / APWhen asked about where the Archer barriers came from, Kirkpatrick told reporters: “Actually, we have them. He confirmed that the barriers that appeared on Bourbon Street on Thursday looked the same as the ones from eight years ago. When asked Thursday about whether she was upset she hadn’t known about the Archer barriers, Kirkpatrick demurred.
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