New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick spoke with the press on Thursday within the hours earlier than the Sugar Bowl kickoff in an effort to reassure residents.
As a substitute, her remarks solely raised extra questions and issues about how these in cost are dealing with the aftermath of the fear assault.
Whereas describing the protection measures in place, Kirkpatrick bizarrely admitted she didn’t know concerning the metropolis’s sidewalk boundaries meant to forestall terror assaults.
Kilpatrick informed reporters, “What you see behind us is what we name hardening the goal. We’ve got introduced in heavy vehicles. You will note while you go down Bourbon, you will notice yellow, what we name ‘archers,’ and they’re alongside the sidewalk. That might be to be preventive.”
“If somebody had or if this specific terrorist went round up on the sidewalk, that’s what that might do. It might gradual that down for anybody who thought that they might breach our targets. These are among the essential variations we’re completed within the quarter.”
“Additionally, you’re going to see an extremely giant presence of police. We’re, although, assured, however we would like our group to really feel assured and know they’re confidently secure. That’s what we’re going to do.”
“Proper now, I can declare to you that the Bourbon Road is open.”
A perplexed reporter requested, “Chief, the place did these ‘archers’ come from….the yellow archers, the place did they arrive from?”
Kilpatrick, “Truly, we’ve them. I didn’t find out about them, however we’ve them, and so we’ve been in a position now to place them out.”
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Kirkpatrick’s background can also be below renewed scrutiny after the revelation that she is a outstanding advocate for Range, Fairness, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, together with her involvement in teaching FBI courses on “bias and diversity.”
