Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cuff real crime stories.

I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

I want to wish everyone a happy new year, even though this being the first of 2025 is a real tragic case that we are reporting on from New Orleans, Louisiana.

And you see the little graphic on the screen.

10 hurt, excuse me, 10 dead, 35 hurt.

That number has been fluctuating to a lower number as that was the upper number that was

put out earlier.

Sometimes people will show up at a hospital on their own, and it's difficult for the

police to get an accurate number early on. Let's hope that the 10 dead does not change.

That is so horrific. And we're going to report to you as to what happened here. These situations

are happening far too often.

The only thing we can do is law enforcement is figure out ways to prevent people from getting vehicles on these paths where tons of pedestrians are hanging out and joining the New Year's. And it's happened in New York City.

It's happened in Germany.

Here it's happened in New Orleans.

It's happened in other places in the world.

There seems to be a popular way of attacking people.

And surely this is a terrorist act.

I don't care what they define it as.

You know, the FBI says, New Orleans police said it is a terrorist attack and I don't care what they define it as, you know, the FBI says,

New Orleans police said it is a terrorist attack and the FBI said it's not.

What makes it a terrorist attack is the political ideology of the person who commits it

and if it was for those political reasons. So it was sort of splitting hairs here,

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