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Security barriers in New Orleans that were intended to protect pedestrians from vehicles but at times malfunctioned were removed for replacement before an attacker drove a pickup truck into a crowd along Bourbon Street on Wednesday morning, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City officials said other barriers, vehicles and law enforcement officers deployed strategically on Bourbon Street failed to prevent the attacker from driving onto the sidewalk, where he ran into pedestrians at about 3:15 a.m. local time on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Orleans was replacing the older barriers, known as bollards, ahead of the city\u2019s hosting the Super Bowl in February, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBollards were not up because they are near completion, with the expectation of being completed before the Super Bowl,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said at the news conference that police were aware of the security issue and did \u201charden those target areas where the bollards\u201d previously were with patrol cars and other measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe did have a car there, we had barriers there, we had officers there, and they still got around,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn this particular case, the terrorist just went all the way around up onto the sidewalk,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video of the attack appeared to show the driver turning right off Canal Street and onto Bourbon Street, stopping just before Conti Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe did indeed have a plan, but the terrorist defeated it,\u201d Kirkpatrick said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FBI is investigating the attack \u2014 in which a gunman drove through the crowd and then exchanged fire with police, wounding two officers before he was killed \u2014 as an act of terrorism. Authorities have found potential explosive devices and believe the attacker did not act alone, the FBI said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked about the security measures at Wednesday afternoon’s news conference, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said: \u201cWe recognize we\u2019ve got a problem. We\u2019re going to fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is going to be a top priority as we go into the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras, and the solution that we\u2019re going to come up with is going to be a permanent one,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A witness, Jimmy Cothran, told NBC News that he had been surprised to see that the metal barricades that usually block off Bourbon Street were not deployed on New Year\u2019s Eve. \u201cThey weren\u2019t up, so you still kind of had to watch your back for cars,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bollards were placed on Bourbon Street several years ago to guard against an attack like the one in Nice, France, in 2016, which killed more than 80 people when a truck plowed through a crowd of pedestrians. But the bollards soon malfunctioned, clogged with Mardi Gras beads, and the police found them inefficient, Cantrell said at the news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hosting the Super Bowl gave the city \u201can opportunity to go further and deeper with infrastructure improvements,\u201d including replacing the bollards, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An engineer who worked on the bollard replacement project, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the team was not authorized to speak publicly, said there was \u201ca mad dash to rush this job\u201d so it could be done in time for the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The engineer said that when the bollards were originally installed several years ago, hydraulic roadblocks were added during construction to ensure Bourbon Street remained protected. This time, the engineer did not see those types of barriers; instead, there were simpler ones like orange traffic drums, the engineer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city Public Works Department, which is overseeing the bollard replacement project, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city said on its website that the bollards on Bourbon Street from Canal Street to St. Ann Street would be replaced with \u201cnew removable stainless-steel bollards\u201d that could be securely locked behind each crosswalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The construction began in November with the removal of the old bollards, and then the replacement proceeded in phases, the city said. It was expected to be finished in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Orleans City Council President Helena Moreno told WWL-TV that she and other council members believed the repairs should have been completed further in advance of the Super Bowl. Still, she said, she did not believe the bollards would have prevented the mass killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis person was ready to inflict pain and death and harm on crowds in Bourbon Street, and I think he would have tried to find whatever way that he could,\u201d Moreno said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Radi Nabulsi, publisher of the website UGASports.com, told NBC News that just before the New Year’s attack, at about 2:30 a.m. local time, he saw a large law enforcement presence in the Bourbon Street area, as well as multiple white and orange plastic barricades and fencing. He said he did not remember seeing the bollards he had seen in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe problem is Bourbon Street is long and every block there\u2019s a cross street and there\u2019s not a barricade on each one of those, because cars are going north to south, crossing Bourbon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Nabulsi said he \u201cfelt completely safe\u201d at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne person, with all the security they put in place, killed 10 people and injured many more, and that is just disheartening,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another witness told NBC affiliate WDSU that the attacker’s pickup truck \u201cmowed over the barricade.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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