Granny Police Chief complained that the terrorist drove around the traffic cones. Don’t you hate it when terrorists don’t follow the rules?

by Ed Driscoll

IT’S COME TO THIS: Embarrassing: New Orleans’ 65-Year-Old DEI Police Chief’s Shocking Admission on City’s Missing Preventative Sidewalk Barriers “I didn’t know about them” (Video).

[New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick] 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?”

Kirkpatrick, “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.”

But what happened to the barriers that should have been there over the holiday season in the first place? Barriers to stop vehicle attacks were in the process of being replaced in New Orleans.

There have been proposals over the years to turn much of Bourbon Street into a pedestrian plaza managed by a team focused on making it safe, Louisiana Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser said Wednesday. He told The Associated Press that it’s important to examine every aspect of safety following the New Year’s Day carnage.

“You can’t prevent something like this when someone wants to kill people*,” Nungesser said, “but I’m hoping we take a hard look at what we do because there will be another one, whether it’s in New Orleans or elsewhere.”

Addressing the removal of the bollards, Nungesser said, “How does that happen for a major event?”

* Offer void on CNN: CNN Shames Those Labeling New Orleans ISIS Attack As Terrorism.