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Five years ago, the article began, “a confidential security report warned that the iconic Bourbon Street tourist strip was vulnerable to a ‘vehicular ramming’ attack.” The New York security firm producing that classified assessment urgently recommended fixing the barriers immediately, explaining that “the two modes of terror attack likely to be used are vehicular ramming and active shooting.” ...

In this next clip, N.O.P.D. Captain Anne Kirkpatrick explained to journalists that when she was crafting her failed security plan to protect Bourbon Street revelers, she did not know about the police department’s “Yellow Archers.” The Yellow Archers are portable barriers used to stop people from driving onto the sidewalk. “We have them,” Captain Kirkpatrick explained, adding “I didn’t know about them, but we have ‘em; and so we have been able now to put them out.”




They have now been able to put them out? Now? It reminds us of an old expression about closing the barn door after the horses hide the Yellow Archers, but I can’t recall the specifics.

Captain Kirkpatrick surely deserves credit for admitting that her security plan failed, with tragic results. But it is inexcusable that Kirkpatrick failed to protect the sidewalks using inventoried gear the city’s residents had already paid for. It would seem to be a critical question to figure out what caused Anne’s disastrous senior moment. ...

Whether or not you’re tempted to see a conspiracy here, remember what we do know: regardless of who’s behind the attack, it could not have happened without deep government corruption in New Orleans combined with unforgivable official incompetence at nearly every level. New Orleans readers, you should demand your tax dollars back.

New Orleans city is guilty also.

"Jabbar was able to drive down Bourbon Street because the bollards, which are movable protective barriers to keep vehicles from driving where pedestrians walk, are in the process of being replaced by “new removable stainless-steel bollards,” according to the Department of Public Works. The construction on the bollards began in November and is scheduled to continue through February."

From November to continue through February. 😃Privately, those bollards can be installed in one day.

Off topic, somewhat, but European cities have retractable metal bollards. God help the unwary tourist if he enters when they are down, and tries to leave when they are up.

Don't make too much of the "all three spent time at fort bragg". It's more than a barracks and a firing range. Fort Bragg has it's own hospital, it owns schools and shops, and hundreds (or thousands) of single family homes. It's massive. It's probably a good portion of the size of Fayetteville itself.

AmericanKulak says

The driver was burned beyond all recognition... but his ID survived unscathed!

AND a passport. I bring it flying domestically, but how the paper/plastic didn't melt if the human body was burned?? If he wasn't flying internationally there's really no reason to have a passport on you. I only do it domestically because my nephew is black. I bring 4 forms of ID when traveling with the nephew domestically.

I don't understand why you'd shoot yourself with a passport in Las Vegas after driving from CO, that can be tracked and was, and use a Steel truck for fireworks. Seems beyond retarded.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Off topic, somewhat, but European cities have retractable metal bollards. God help the unwary tourist if he enters when they are down, and tries to leave when they are up.

Bourbon street should only be open to approved traffic. The city probably has a dump truck(S) or garbage truck(S) that could block it off. Ugly, but it's what Chicago does during major events. Bourbon street is a major event daily all year. The road should just be closed down for roughly 8-10 blocks full time.

Broadway in Nashville has the same issue. Between all the bars and arena you could easily mow people down with a car.

Back to your comment, if there's a public company that make bollards maybe invest in it. I could see a lot of cities installing them. They're likely coming to a public sidewalk in a busy place everywhere in America.

No 9/11 debate, but if that happened, cars are exponentially easier to cause harm during big holidays/celebrations. There's security, but take a Cyber Truck at Lollapalooza in Chicago during the headliner, bust through the fences with a car that can do 0-60 in nothing. Go 60mph+ through a crowd of at least 20k with an all steel truck. That doesn't end well.

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