New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick was surprised to find out about barriers meant to protect citizens./Image: Video screenshot courtesy of wwltv.com
New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick spoke with the press on Thursday in the hours before the Sugar Bowl kickoff in an effort to reassure citizens.
Instead, her remarks only raised more questions and concerns about how those in charge are handling the aftermath of the terror attack.
While describing the safety measures in place, Kirkpatrick bizarrely admitted she didn’t know about the city’s sidewalk barriers meant to prevent terror attacks.
Kilpatrick told reporters, “What you see behind us is what we call hardening the target. 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. 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 breach our targets. Those are some of the main differences we are done in the quarter.”
“Also, you are going to see an incredibly large presence of police. We are, though, confident, but we want our community to feel confident and know they are confidently safe. That’s what we’re going to do.”
“Right now, I can declare to you that the Bourbon Street is open.”
A perplexed reporter asked, “Chief, where did those ‘archers’ come from….the yellow archers, where did they come from?”
Kilpatrick, “Actually, we have them. I didn’t know about them, but we have them, and so we have been able now to put them out.”
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Kirkpatrick’s background is also under renewed scrutiny after the revelation that she is a prominent advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, including her involvement in teaching FBI courses on “bias and diversity.”
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