'We're resilient' - New Orleans residents vow to 'keep going' as Bourbon Street reopens

Record ID: 1893903

  • Title: 'We're resilient' - New Orleans residents vow to 'keep going' as Bourbon Street reopens
  • Date: 2nd January 2025
  • Summary: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 02, 2025)(REUTERS) PEOPLE WALKING ON BOURBON STREET AFTER IT REOPENED POLICE WALKING ON BOURBON STREET (SOUNDBITE)(English) NEW ORLEANS RESIDENT, JASON RAASCH, 45, [WORKS AS A DJ AT A RESTAURANT ON BOURBON STREET] SAYING: “I'm very disappointed that someone so ruthless and heartless would do something like this. We’re a city o
  • Embargoed: 16th January 2025 22:35
  • Keywords: Bourbon Street New Orleans New Year's New Year's Day attack Shamsud-Din Jabbar
  • Location: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES
  • City: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime,North America
  • Reuters ID: LVA001061402012025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Residents of New Orleans expressed shock and disbelief at the New Year’s Day attack that killed at least 15 people on the city’s famed Bourbon Street, but said on Thursday (January 02) they would not be deterred as the street was reopened with a heavy police presence.
    The investigation into what motivated a U.S. Army veteran carrying an Islamic State flag on his truck to plow into a crowd of New Year's revelers is continuing, as authorities beefed up security ahead of the Sugar Bowl college football game to be played less than a mile from Wednesday's mayhem.
    Jason Raasch, who works as a DJ at The Beach on Bourbon Street called the attacker “ruthless and heartless”.
    “We’re a city of love,” he told Reuters. “And to see a tragedy like this, it's just uncalled for and heartless of a sole individual that had nothing but hate in his heart.”
    78 year old retiree Vonnie Cochran and her neighbor, 41 year old business owner Joseph Amato, live one street away, and said they came out to show their support for the re-opening.
    “We are here to just celebrate our city,” Cochran said. “You know, we're not going to let this shut us down.”
    Amato said he was out when he heard about the early morning attack and quickly went home and then didn’t go out New Year’s Day because he was “feeling horrible about it all.”
    But as he stood on Bourbon Street a day later, Amato was defiant.
    “We're still here, we're not going to be scared or terrorized,” he said.
    (Production: Aleksandra Michalska; Ashraf Fahim)
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