{"id":30639,"date":"2025-01-16T12:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/family-of-new-orleans-attack-survivor-they-shouldve-protected-people-better\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T12:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:49:53","slug":"family-of-new-orleans-attack-survivor-they-shouldve-protected-people-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/family-of-new-orleans-attack-survivor-they-shouldve-protected-people-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of New Orleans attack survivor: \u2018They should\u2019ve protected people better\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safety failures scrutinized after Emile Graham was badly injured during attack and witnessed his best friend\u2019s death<\/p>\n<p>Loved ones of a man who witnessed his best friend\u2019s murder during the deadly New Year\u2019s morning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-orleans-vehicle-attack\">truck attack in New Orleans<\/a> \u2013 and was badly wounded himself \u2013 have been lamenting the city\u2019s failure to better protect revelers on its most famous street that day.<\/p>\n<p>After revelations that the city either took down or chose not to deploy three different types of barriers that it had to prevent vehicular ramming attacks like the one that killed 14 people and hurt nearly 60 others on Bourbon Street on 1 January, the father of injured victim Emile \u201cLuui\u201d Graham said: \u201cThey should\u2019ve protected people better than this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/16\/new-orleans-attack-survivors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safety failures scrutinized after Emile Graham was badly injured during attack and witnessed his best friend\u2019s death Loved ones of a man who witnessed his best friend\u2019s murder during the deadly New Year\u2019s morning truck attack in New Orleans \u2013 and was badly wounded himself \u2013 have been lamenting the city\u2019s failure to better protect &#8230; <a title=\"Family of New Orleans attack survivor: \u2018They should\u2019ve protected people better\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/family-of-new-orleans-attack-survivor-they-shouldve-protected-people-better\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Family of New Orleans attack survivor: \u2018They should\u2019ve protected people better\u2019\">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-30639","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\/30639","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=30639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}