Two New Orleans Police Department officers involved in the January 1st terrorist attack on Bourbon Street are recovering after bravely confronting the perpetrator. The officers were responding to an unrelated call when they encountered the attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who drove a truck through a crowd, killing 14 civilians before opening fire on police.
NEW ORLEANS – The two New Orleans Police Department officers injured in the Jan. 1 terrorist attack on Bourbon Street that left 15 dead, including attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar, are recovering after they heroically neutralized the ISIS -motivated perpetrator, according to their attorney. NOPD officers fatally shot Jabbar after he drove an electric Ford F-150 pickup truck through a New Year's crowd around 3:15 a.m. on Jan.
1, killing 14 civilians and opening fire on police in an act of terror motivated by Islamic extremism. 'They are both expected to make a full recovery,' NOPD attorney Eric Hessler, a former NOPD officer himself, told Fox News Digital. The two officers, whose identities have not yet been released, were en route to an unrelated call early New Year's morning when 'the vehicle just flew past them and struck the crane,' Hessler said. 'Within seconds, they reacted and began to do what they were trained to do and what the situation required that they do,' Hessler explained. 'They were engaged in a very traumatic, stressful and very rapidly evolving set of events.' The officers immediately began to determine whether the vehicle crash was intentional or not, and when they realized it was more than likely intentional, police drew their weapons to address the active threat. 'They handled it correctly. They handled it the way they were trained. And they're handling the aftermath, as difficult as it is, in the way that they were trained,' the attorney said. Street camera video from the morning of the attack shows a group of officers standing near Bourbon Street immediately run toward danger when the call came in about a suspicious vehicle incident
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