I watched the news and read the alerts as they hit my iPad throughout the day, and I sensed disappointment when the terrorist in New Orleans turned out to be a U.S. citizen. It is much easier to get angry at these senseless incidents when the villain is an outsider. When the person who pulls … Read more
On New Year’s Day in New Orleans, on a famous stretch of road known as Bourbon Street, a US citizen used a rented pickup truck to kill twenty people and wound many more. This mass casualty event – we can’t say mass shooting because the only individual to die from gunfire was the perp when … Read more
At approximately 3 AM in New Orleans, a vehicle drove into a New Year’s Eve Crowd on Bourbon Street. The New Orleans Police Department said in a statement reported by NBC affiliate WDSU that “mass casualties are reported on Bourbon and Iberville Streets” and that a vehicle may have plowed into people. WDSU NBC 6 New Orleans … Read more