• codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    The French Quarter has retractable bollards in that area. They had been temporarily removed for upgrades ahead of the Super Bowl. At least that’s the story circulating here.

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      If that’s true I hope they get the shit sued out of them. “Oh sorry we decided to risk you all being murdered for a while”

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        New Orleans government is legendarily inconmpetent and corrupt, especially law enforcement.

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      Yeah, and my understanding was there was some other kind of blockade up and he just went around it.