New Orleans had top-of-the-line barriers to prevent car attacks — but didn’t use them on New Year’s
New Orleans had access to effective anti-vehicle barriers ahead of the Bourbon Street attack on New Year’s Eve revelers that killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more, but the city did not deploy those barriers until a day after the carnage unfolded, and the head of the local police department said she had been unaware of them.
New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said Thursday while reopening Bourbon Street that the city had added more protections, including heavy trucks and Archer barriers “that would be preventive if someone had, or if this particular terrorist, went around up on the sidewalk.”
When asked about where the Archer barriers came from, Kirkpatrick told reporters: “Actually, we have them. I didn’t know about them, but we have them, and so we have been able now to put them out.”
New Orleans bought the Archer barriers in 2017 from Meridian Rapid Defense Group, which manufactures them, according to Peter Whitford, the company’s CEO. He confirmed that the barriers that appeared on Bourbon Street on Thursday looked the same as the ones from eight years ago.
“They bought them from us and I don’t know where they were on that day — so I can’t answer that question,” he said of the New Year’s Day attack.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/orleans-had-top-line-barriers-004736196.html
Also see my earlier post:
https://similarworlds.com/politics/5191982-We-had-a-plan-but-the-terrorist-defeated-it-WTF
New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said Thursday while reopening Bourbon Street that the city had added more protections, including heavy trucks and Archer barriers “that would be preventive if someone had, or if this particular terrorist, went around up on the sidewalk.”
When asked about where the Archer barriers came from, Kirkpatrick told reporters: “Actually, we have them. I didn’t know about them, but we have them, and so we have been able now to put them out.”
New Orleans bought the Archer barriers in 2017 from Meridian Rapid Defense Group, which manufactures them, according to Peter Whitford, the company’s CEO. He confirmed that the barriers that appeared on Bourbon Street on Thursday looked the same as the ones from eight years ago.
“They bought them from us and I don’t know where they were on that day — so I can’t answer that question,” he said of the New Year’s Day attack.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/orleans-had-top-line-barriers-004736196.html
Also see my earlier post:
https://similarworlds.com/politics/5191982-We-had-a-plan-but-the-terrorist-defeated-it-WTF
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