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2 months ago | msn.com | Marianne LeVine |Sarah Cahlan |Jarrett Ley |Maria Sacchetti

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Jan 13, 2025 | detroitnews.com | Sarah Blaskey |Samuel Oakford |Jarrett Ley |Jonathan O'Connell

As New Orleans officials deployed to protect thousands of revelers they knew would flock to the city’s famed French Quarter on New Year’s Eve, they parked a police SUV to block the main entrance to Bourbon Street, a packed pedestrian thoroughfare long seen as vulnerable to a vehicular-ramming attack. But the SUV left a large gap. That allowed the driver of a pickup truck to turn onto Bourbon Street hours after midnight, video shows, in the first moments of a deadly Islamic State-inspired rampage.

Jan 13, 2025 | torontosun.com | Sarah Blaskey |Samuel Oakford |Jarrett Ley |Jonathan O'Connell

But the SUV left a large gap. That allowed the driver of a pickup truck to turn onto Bourbon Street hours after midnight, video shows, in the first moments of a deadly Islamic State-inspired rampage. It was not a momentary security lapse: At various times earlier that evening, the gap between the police SUV and the nearest structural obstacle was more than twice the width of the attacker’s truck, a Washington Post examination of visual evidence found.

Jan 13, 2025 | msn.com | Sarah Blaskey |Samuel Oakford |Jarrett Ley |Jonathan O'Connell

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Jan 13, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Sarah Blaskey |Samuel Oakford |Jarrett Ley |Jonathan O'Connell

Major security lapses preceded the vehicular-ramming attack that left 14 dead, according to a Post examination of visual evidence and accounts from witnesses. As New Orleans officials deployed to protect thousands of revelers they knew would flock to the city's famed French Quarter on New Year's Eve, they parked a police SUV to block the main entrance to Bourbon Street, a packed pedestrian thoroughfare long seen as vulnerable to a vehicular-ramming attack. But the SUV left a large gap.