re: January 1, 2025: Multiple casualties on Bourbon Street after terrorist attack..

I did some reading on the NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick. Apparently she was previously fired as Oakland, CA police chief. Back in August 2024 she apparently hit two pedestrians with her car while on duty.

My mistake they just kept referring to a social media platform. I hadn’t heard the specific one .

A Mandeville house is being search? They said Mandeville, La so I’m guessing the town not the street in Nola.
Any word? Heard from fbi Raia

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Does anyone know if he had been to New Orleans

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The dude was 40 something living in Houston, born in Beaumont (I think). Seems like a safe assumption that he had been to NOLA before.

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Then who are the 3 males and 1 female who placed the IEDs around FQ?!

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They apparently have footage of the Jabbar placing the IEDs.

The only explanation I can think of for the others that were originally suspects is that it is New Orleans. The "locals" will steal anything not tied down. They probably were trying to steal whatever it was in, but it wasn't something that they thought was valuable and left it.

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rented his vehicle from the same obscure car rental app

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This is the equivalent of saying “the Nola terrorist rented a place on an obscure app called AirBNB.”

Sorry, don’t give a frick if you’ve never heard of Turo, that’s what it’s equivalent to. I wish people would just accept this.

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FBI @ presser:

IEDs planted right after midnight / 1AM

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Weird timing

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I don't understand the resistance to something that is relatively cheap and doesn't really interfere with anyone or anything else, other than the slight inconvenience of having to walk around them.

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I think it makes sense for the city to put up bollards on the sidewalks in locations where it’s feasible for a vehicle to bypass a barricade, knowing what we know today. I mostly agree that it’s not much of an inconvenience and comes at a low cost (particularly since sidewalk bollards shouldn’t need to be retractable).

At the same time, I have seen some folks argue that it’s a massive failure by the city not having bollards on the sidewalk* in place beforehand. I think that’s asinine. I also think that’s where the “where do we stop?” argument becomes more legitimate.

*In fact, I saw people state that NOLA failed because the bollards had been removed for maintenance, and that they should have had patrol cars blocking intersections where they were removed. Then the video comes out showing the guy driving around patrol cars onto the sidewalk and the narrative changes to “they should have had bollards on the sidewalk!” That’s definitely Monday morning quarterbacking.