New Orleans attack live: FBI says it now believes New Orleans attacker acted alone

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from New Orleans

New Orleans police chief Anne Kirkpatrick is now addressing reporters close to Bourbon Avenue, which she says she feels is able to open after a short ceremony and a safety sweep.

She says new yellow obstacles would “decelerate” anybody who believes they will attain targets on Bourbon Avenue.

“You are going to see an extremely giant [police] presence,” she tells reporters gathered within the French Quarter. “We wish our neighborhood to really feel assured.”

Earlier, Kirkpatrick participated in a short ceremony with native non secular leaders, who laid 14 yellow roses down for every of the 14 victims. They have been accompanied by a jazz band.

“In our tradition right here in New Orleans, there’s music,” she tells reporters by Bourbon Avenue. Kirkpatrick provides that these killed yesterday “didn’t die in useless.”

“We can be a safer metropolis, and a safer nation,” she says. “We are going to return to normalcy.”

Moreover, Kirkpatrick downplays ideas that extra may have been executed to save lots of lives, noting that the “terrorist was hell-bent on destruction”.

“If it hadn’t been on Bourbon, it might have been some other place,” she says.

She completed her remarks by saying that New Orleans is “identified for its resiliency”, noting that the town continues to be coping with the aftermath of the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005 for instance of this.

“This metropolis is aware of ache,” Kirkpatrick says. “However this metropolis additionally is aware of how one can recuperate.”