Chicago has purchased millions of dollars worth of security barriers, while New Orleans reportedly had a similar set of barriers sitting unused before a deadly attack on New Year's Day.
The City of Chicago has a $2 million contract for the yellow Archer barriers, which were deployed Friday outside Wrigley Field.The CEO of the Meridian Rapid Defense Group told NBC 5 Investigates he sold 48 of the so-called Archer barriers to the city of New Orleans in 2017, following the 2016 deadly ramming attack in Nice, France, and said he wasn't sure why they weren't in use.
'That's a question I can't answer; that's a question you'd have to ask them,' CEO Peter Whitford told NBC 5 Investigates Friday. NBC 5 Investigates reached out to New Orleans city officials early Friday morning and again Friday afternoon. A city spokeswoman said she would get back to us. NBC News first reported Thursday evening on. When Bourbon Street re-opened Thursday afternoon, the New Orleans Police Chief was asked about them, as she described to reporters how the city was now implementing additional security measures in wake of the attack.'Actually, we have them. I did not know about them, but we have them, so we have been able to put them out.' Video from New Orleans shows street crews offloading the yellow steel anti-vehicle barriers in the hours after the New Year's Day ramming attack.Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly 'They are an American product, 700 pounds of American steel that are made in our factories. We rent and sell these. It is the strongest mobile barrier in the world,' Whitford said. Prior to the New Year's Day attack, New Orleans was in the middle of a months-long project to replace street bollards and were using other barriers like police cars to restrict traffic flow. But video from that night shows the white Ford F-150 pickup, driven by 42-year-old Shamsud-din Jabbar, going right around the police car set up to block traffic. You can see the truck make a right turn onto Bourbon Street before accelerating, mowing down New Year's reveler
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