At least 10 people were killed and 35 were injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd in New Orleans’ French Quarter on New Year’s Day.
The suspect is dead.
The incident occurred around 3:15 a.m. at Bourbon and Iberville streets near the end of New Year’s celebrations and hours before the AllState Sugar Bowl at the Caesars Superdome.
The suspect fired on officers, injuring two of them after crashing the vehicle. The two officers are reported to be in stable condition. The FBI is leading the investigation. The FBI says its investigating attack as “act of terrorism.”
I’m just glad it wasn’t the Irish again. As long as they walk freely amongst us, no federal building is safe.
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My family heavily identifies as Irish-American, and most of them are racist as fuck. They get absolutely roiled when I turn their absurd rhetoric around on them.