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☆ New Orleans’ terror attack forces a great city yet again to face down a nightmare
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-04 | by ( Michelle Krupa | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

And a street-cleaning crew was poised near the desecrated upper blocks of Bourbon Street to erase the reminders so revelers could return. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters‘I can’t believe it happened’Before Wednesday’s attack, New Orleans had been riding perhaps as high as anyone here could remember. “We don’t want them to win.”Weber had heard the screaming when the attack happened, watched people run, saw a body on the ground. “This city is here to stay.”Flowers lean Thursday against a wall near where people were killed by a man driving a truck in New Orleans. His wife had just told him about the French Quarter attack.

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☆ New Orleans was partway through replacing its street barriers, leaving a fatal opening
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-02 | by ( Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

New Orleans was removing and replacing traffic bollards around the site of the mass killing there on New Year's Day. AdvertisementConcept image of the replacement bollards due to be installed on Bourbon Street. When they were placed around Bourbon Street in December 2017, NOLA.com reported that they were part of a $40 million safety plan to block intersections during special events. At the time of Wednesday's attack, Bourbon Street was partway through a New Orleans' Bollard Assessment and Replacement Project, which started in mid-November 2024. "This person was ready to inflict pain and death and harm on crowds in Bourbon Street, and I think he would have tried to find whatever way that he could," she said.

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“Bollards were not up because they are near completion, with the expectation of being completed before the Super Bowl,” she said. Investigators at the scene after a person drove a vehicle into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Wednesday. Video of the attack appeared to show the driver turning right off Canal Street and onto Bourbon Street, stopping just before Conti Street. Bollards on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Feb. 16, 2021. The engineer said that when the bollards were originally installed several years ago, hydraulic roadblocks were added during construction to ensure Bourbon Street remained protected.

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☆ Driver kills 10 by ramming truck into New Orleans crowd in New Year attack
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-01 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The suspect, described by one city leader as being in "full military gear," died after a shootout with police, law enforcement officials said. "We know the perpetrator has been killed," said New Orleans City Councilman Oliver Thomas. NBC News, citing three unnamed senior law enforcement sources, identified the suspect as Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42. NOLA.com, citing one unidentified law enforcement source, reported that same suspect was carrying an ISIS flag in the truck. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell called the incident a "terrorist attack."

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An encampment of unhoused people in downtown New Orleans was forcibly relocated by the order of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry ahead of this weekend's Taylor Swift concerts, disrupting monthslong housing efforts with less than a week's notice. "It's not like Taylor Swift all of a sudden decided to come to New Orleans," Harris said. We, as a city, knew that Taylor Swift was coming, but there wasn't a conversation had other than last Friday." "So this is working, what we're doing is working," Harris said.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Monday that she has chosen Anne Kirkpatrick, a former chief of police in Spokane, Washington, and Oakland, California, to head the New Orleans Police Department, a nomination subject to the approval of the City Council. Kirkpatrick, if approved, would be the permanent replacement for Shaun Ferguson, who retired from the job last year. The post has been held on an interim basis by Michelle Woodfork, a longtime veteran of the New Orleans department, who had also applied for the job. She was tapped to help with police reform efforts in Chicago under then-Mayor Rahm Emmanuel in 2017. Voters approved a measure last year granting the council the right to approve or reject a nominee for police chief.

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