National Guard deploying to New Orleans as city marks 1 year since terror attack

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A National Guard deployment successful New Orleans authorized by President Trump volition statesman Tuesday arsenic portion of a dense information beingness for New Year's celebrations, a twelvemonth aft a panic onslaught connected revelers connected Bourbon Street killed 14 people, officials said Monday.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry requested troops to beryllium sent to the metropolis to enactment section instrumentality enforcement during year-end events and stay determination done astatine slightest February.

The deployment successful New Orleans follows high-profile National Guard missions the Trump medication launched successful different cities this year, including successful Washington and Memphis, Tennessee. But the show of National Guard troops is not antithetic successful New Orleans, wherever troops earlier this twelvemonth besides helped bolster information for the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras.

"It's nary antithetic than what we've seen successful the past," New Orleans constabulary spokesperson Reese Harper said.

The Guard is not the lone national instrumentality enforcement bureau successful the city. Since the commencement of the month, national agents person been carrying retired an migration crackdown that has led to the apprehension of astatine slightest respective 100 people.

Harper stressed that the National Guard volition not beryllium engaging successful migration enforcement. "This is for visibility and conscionable truly to support our citizens safe," Harper said. "It's conscionable different instrumentality successful the toolbox and different furniture of security."

Approximately 142 Louisiana National Guard members volition assistance the New Orleans Police Department with roadworthy closures successful and astir the French Quarter and different lawsuit locations, according to the city's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. Hundreds of Guard members are expected to beryllium portion of the deployment, and volition run likewise to earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile they patrolled the country astir Bourbon Street pursuing the vehicle-ramming onslaught connected Jan. 1.

Flags volition beryllium flown astatine half-staff crossed the authorities this week to grant the lives mislaid successful the attack. Jan. 1 done Jan. 4 is besides present an authoritative mourning play crossed the authorities for each the victims of the attack. Landry has asked churches, nationalist buildings and different institutions crossed Louisiana to ringing their bells 14 times astatine 3:15 p.m. connected Jan. 4 successful grant of those who mislaid their lives. The household of 21-year-old Hubert Gauthreaux told CBS News they anticipation radical volition grant his representation successful a mode that serves others. "I privation [others] to beryllium inspired by his light. Maybe deliberation of a tiny happening that would bring airy to idiosyncratic other the mode that helium would ... Just tiny thoughtfulness would beryllium a beauteous mode to retrieve him," Gauthreaux's sister, Brooke, said.

The Guard members volition enactment done Carnival season, erstwhile residents and tourists descend connected the Big Easy to partake successful costumed celebrations and monolithic parades earlier ending with Mardi Gras.

Louisiana National Guard spokesperson Lt. Col. Noel Collins said successful a written connection that the Guard volition enactment local, authorities and national instrumentality enforcement "to heighten capabilities, stabilize the environment, assistance successful reducing crime, and restoring nationalist trust."

In total, much than 800 local, authorities and national instrumentality enforcement officials volition beryllium deployed successful New Orleans to adjacent disconnected Bourbon Street to vehicular traffic, patrol the area, behaviour container searches and redirect traffic, metropolis officials said during a quality league Monday.

The other assistance for New Orleans has received the enactment of immoderate Democrats, with Mayor LaToya Cantrell saying she is "welcoming of those added resources."

The accrued instrumentality enforcement beingness comes a twelvemonth aft Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove astir a constabulary blockade successful the aboriginal hours of Jan. 1 and raced down Bourbon Street, plowing into radical celebrating New Year's Day. The attacker, a U.S. national and Army seasoned who had proclaimed his enactment for the Islamic State militant radical connected societal media, was fatally changeable by constabulary aft crashing. After an expansive search, instrumentality enforcement located aggregate bombs successful coolers placed astir the French Quarter. None of the explosive devices detonated.

In the contiguous aftermath of the attack, 100 National Guard members were sent to the city.

In September, Landry, a Republican, asked Trump to nonstop 1,000 troops to Louisiana cities, citing concerns astir crime. Democrats pushed back, specifically leaders successful New Orleans who said a deployment was unwarranted. They argued that the metropolis has really seen a melodramatic alteration successful convulsive transgression rates successful caller years.

Kati Weis contributed to this report.