Newly released body camera footage from the New Orleans Police Department shows officers confronting the attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, after he rammed his truck into Bourbon Street on New Year's Day, killing 15 people.
New Orleans Police Department body camera footage released Friday morning shows officers responding to the scene of a New Year's terrorist attack on Bourbon Street that left 15 dead, including attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar. The
The footage shows several officers approaching Jabbar's truck, which was rented in Houston, at which point he begins firing at police from beneath a deployed airbag. Loud gunfire can be heard in the approximately 13 seconds of footage released by The video also shows several civilians running from the gunfire.
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