(2 Jan 2025)
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New Orleans – 2 January 2025
1. Wide of police near Bourbon Street entrance, truck blocking entrance
2. Close of police in tactical gear
3. Police near Bourbon Street
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Kirkpatrick, New Orleans Police Superintendent:
"FBI’s investigation as of right now is confident at this stage, based on the information they have, that this is a lone actor. Ok? This is a lone actor. Therefore, we are confident that we can open Bourbon Street and the rest of our city."
5. Various of people walking in Bourbon Street
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Kirkpatrick, New Orleans Police Superintendent:
"We have brought in heavy trucks. You will see when you go down Bourbon, you will see yellow, what we call archers. And they are along the sidewalk. And that would be to be preventive if someone had or if this particular terrorist went around up on the sidewalk, that’s what that would do. It would slow that down for anyone who thought that they could reach targets."
7. Woman cleaning a window
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Kirkpatrick, New Orleans Police Superintendent:
"Also, you are going to see an incredibly large presence of police. And we are, though, confident, but we want our community to feel confident and know they are confident, to be safe. And that’s what we’re going to do. So right now, I can declare to you that the Bourbon Street is open."
9. Various of 14 flowers laid on the sidewalk of Bourbon Street
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Kirkpatrick, New Orleans Police Superintendent:
"People did not die in vain. As a result, we will be a safer city. We will be a safer country. So their deaths are not in vain. And that is our balance. But we will restore we will return to normalcy. And we can do that. And still show respect and honor."
11. People in Bourbon Street
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jordan Templeton, visitor:
"Yeah, it just feels really somber being here, kind of knowing what happened after seeing the videos of what happened and knowing that we were there just a few hours before and then walking down here is a pretty odd feeling seeing all the areas you saw on camera that were run over by the truck."
14. People in Bourbon Street
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jordan Templeton, visitor:
"I do. I think that if there is anywhere that it’s safe, it’s probably here right now. You can’t walk 50ft without seeing police, FBI, all other types of organizations all down here. They’re on every single corner inside every single store. There’s vehicles, all these vehicles driving around, scanning all of the areas. So I think of anywhere safe, It’s here right now. But yeah."
16. People in Bourbon Street
STORYLINE:
Bourbon Street reopened Thursday after 14 people were killed and more than 30 injured in New Orleans when a driver rammed into a crowd early on New Year’s Day.
Speaking to reporters New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick declared the street open to the public Thursday afternoon.
"We are confident that we can open Bourbon Street and the rest of our city," said Kirkpatrick, adding that there will be heighten police presence, heavy trucks blocking streets and barriers on sidewalks as a preventive measure to stop vehicles.
Jordan Templeton said he was out in Bourbon Street on New Years Day but had left before the attack took place.
"It just feels really somber being here," said Templeton. "I think that if there is anywhere that it’s safe, it’s probably here right now," he added.
The FBI says the New Orleans truck attack acted alone when he drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers.
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