Following a deadly truck attack in New Orleans, a Chicago alderman is pushing for stricter security measures at street fairs and festivals.
A Chicago alderman is calling for new barrier requirements for all street fairs and festivals in the city, in the wake of the deadly New Year's Day truck attack in New Orleans and the attack at a German Christmas market earlier this month. Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) said the wooden or plastic traffic barriers currently recommended for permitted street fairs and festivals in Chicago are a security weakness, and that needs to change.
'The goal has to be to be able to stop a car the moment it gets hit,' Lopez said.Lopez said the requirements for a permit for street festivals and fairs should be amended to require heavy-duty 'mobile vehicle barriers,' which are portable barriers specifically designed to stop vehicles from entering a restricted area. They are the same barriers that were put in place on Thursday in New Orleans, following the deadly truck attack on a crowd of New Year's Day revelers on Bourbon Street. At least 14 people were killed before the attacker died in a shootout with police.The New Orleans attacker bypassed barriers put in place on Bourbon Street instead of security bollards during the attack. New Orleans was replacing bollards on the street and near completion before the upcoming Super Bowl, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said.New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick said Jabbar drove around the barriers, bypassing patrol cars and law enforcement, and onto the sidewalk.Kirkpatrick said yellow portable barriers – known as 'archers' – specifically designed to stop vehicles from entering a restricted area were put in place Thursday in New Orleans.'I didn't know about them, but we have them. So we have been able now to put them in,' she said.Lopez is calling on the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events to make mobile vehicle barriers a requirement for all street fairs and festivals permitted in 202
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