New Orleans bolsters ‘anti-looting plan’ with citywide CURFEW, as practically 1mn state residents stay with out energy after hurricane

The town of New Orleans has been positioned underneath a curfew, forcing residents to stay house in the course of the night time hours indefinitely, as authorities attempt to stop looting after a devastating hurricane knocked out energy throughout Louisiana.

Efficient instantly, the 8pm curfew was introduced by New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Tuesday afternoon, and is ready to proceed “till terminated” by the town administration at a but unspecified date. The curfew order makes exceptions for “emergency and reduction works [sic],” and extends till 6am every morning.

I’ve signed an Government Order mandating a metropolis huge curfew, efficient instantly for all residents from 8pm -6am. pic.twitter.com/IywxeUtrXN

— Mayor LaToya Cantrell (@mayorcantrell) August 31, 2021

Throughout a Tuesday press convention, Cantrell defended her determination to deploy “anti-looting groups” throughout the town in an effort to stem a collection of thefts and break-ins that adopted Hurricane Ida, which made landfall Sunday and wreaked destruction throughout the Gulf coast. The mayor stated the anti-looting initiative, performed along with the state Nationwide Guard, had been “efficient” thus far, however would nonetheless be expanded with extra personnel. 

BREAKING: Extra looting in #Nola after #HurricaneIda. @NOPDNews (New Orleans Police Division) at Damin’s in Mid-Metropolis.
A classy sneaker retailer with home windows smashed out and sneakers stolen. Extra @wdsu pic.twitter.com/vSxwvVsiKG

— Travers Mackel (@TraversWDSU) August 31, 2021

“I spoke this morning about our anti-looting plan that has been in place, and it has been efficient. But additionally I mentioned that we’ll be ramping up extra capability… from a proactive standpoint. That’s with the Louisiana Nationwide Guard as effectively,” Cantrell advised reporters.

Breaking: @NOPDNews (New Orleans Police Division) at a enterprise break-in at a gasoline station in #Nola Lakeview neighborhood.
You hate to see this occur after #HurricaneIda.
Extra quickly @wdsu pic.twitter.com/9EkVCohogF

— Travers Mackel (@TraversWDSU) August 31, 2021

Simply shy of 1 million Louisiana residents stay with out energy after the class four hurricane just about destroyed the state’s energy infrastructure, whereas some 177,000 in Orleans parish are nonetheless in darkness, based on outage tracker PowerOutage.us. Not less than 4 folks have been killed because of the storm, together with two in Louisiana and two in Mississippi.

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