{"id":30260,"date":"2025-01-11T16:47:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/new-orleans-attack-wouldve-had-completely-different-outcome-if-steel-barriers-were-used-inventor-says\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T16:47:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:47:53","slug":"new-orleans-attack-wouldve-had-completely-different-outcome-if-steel-barriers-were-used-inventor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/new-orleans-attack-wouldve-had-completely-different-outcome-if-steel-barriers-were-used-inventor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans attack would\u2019ve had \u2018completely different outcome\u2019 if steel barriers were used, inventor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Whitford says Archer barriers, which the city had stored away, have record of stopping vehicle rammings<\/p>\n<p>The deadly New Year\u2019s Day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-orleans-vehicle-attack\">truck attack in New Orleans<\/a> \u201cwould have had a completely different outcome\u201d if city officials had put out 700lb (317kg) barriers that they bought years earlier and have a track record of preventing intentional vehicle rammings, the blockades\u2019 inventor has told the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>But the city \u201cdid not have a full slate of accessories to help move and deploy\u201d those steel Archer barriers quickly in the way they were designed to be \u2013 and how authorities elsewhere have managed to do it, Peter Whitford, the chief executive officer of the Meridian Rapid Defense Group, said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/11\/archer-barriers-new-orleans-truck-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Whitford says Archer barriers, which the city had stored away, have record of stopping vehicle rammings The deadly New Year\u2019s Day truck attack in New Orleans \u201cwould have had a completely different outcome\u201d if city officials had put out 700lb (317kg) barriers that they bought years earlier and have a track record of preventing &#8230; <a title=\"New Orleans attack would\u2019ve had \u2018completely different outcome\u2019 if steel barriers were used, inventor says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/new-orleans-attack-wouldve-had-completely-different-outcome-if-steel-barriers-were-used-inventor-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Orleans attack would\u2019ve had \u2018completely different outcome\u2019 if steel barriers were used, inventor says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}