Could a Ban on Vehicles Be Next After New Orleans, Las Vegas Attacks?
Police in New Orleans are calling the New Year’s Day truck ramming that killed 14 people and injured more than 30 a deliberate act of terror. According to the Associated Press, the FBI is investigating the case as a potential terrorist act, though a definitive motive has not yet been revealed. The attacker, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran, reportedly drove a rented pickup truck at high speed into a dense crowd on Bourbon Street before engaging in a short firefight with police before being fatally shot.