Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill weighed in on the postponement of the Sugar Bowl sport after a lethal assault in New Orleans on Wednesday.
Murrill informed NBC News that she believes the sport needs to be postponed to Friday. The sport has been pushed back simply someday to Thursday afternoon up to now.
“Not my choice, however I wish to see it delayed at the very least one other day. If they requested my opinion, I might inform them that,” Murrill mentioned. “I feel that it was sensible to delay it at the very least a day. This is an energetic crime scene, and so they simply completed eradicating a number of the our bodies, and so they nonetheless have not eliminated all of them. I nonetheless suppose we have to wait an additional day.”
Murrill added that she believes the neighborhood is “protected,” regardless. The variety of victims killed within the Bourbon Street assault has risen to fifteen, Fox News has realized.
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An aerial general exterior basic view of Caesars Superdome, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Tyler Kaufman)
The sport is at the moment set to be performed lower than 24 hours later than its preliminary begin time, regardless of the assault. The Allstate Sugar Bowl group introduced that the sport will begin at 3 p.m. native time (4 p.m. ET) on Thursday. The sport was initially set to kick off on 8:45 p.m. ET on Wednesday evening, and earlier experiences indicated the sport can be postponed 24 hours.
The Superdome is positioned only a mile away from the location of Wednesday morning’s lethal assault. Georgia and Notre Dame arrived in New Orleans on Sunday and have been reportedly staying in lodges simply blocks away from the crime scene. According to experiences, each colleges carried out a “shelter in place” order for his or her groups.
According to an announcement from the FBI, a person driving a Ford pickup truck drove right into a crowd of individuals on Bourbon Street at round 3:15 a.m. native time. The suspect, recognized as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, exchanged gunfire with native regulation enforcement earlier than being pronounced useless on the scene.
The FBI is at the moment working to find out “the topic’s potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations,” after an ISIS flag was discovered within the truck. Weapons and a possible IED have been positioned contained in the suspect’s car, and different potential IEDs have been additionally positioned within the French Quarter.
New Orleans FBI’s Alethea Duncan famous throughout a press convention on Wednesday that the FBI doesn’t consider that Din Jabbar was “solely accountable” for the act.
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The choice to postpone the sport simply someday after the assault prompted blended responses from followers and pundits on social media.
Conservative commentator John Ziegler additionally expressed disagreement with the postponement in a put up on X.
“This is incorrect. Postponing the Sugar Bowl someday is not going to do something to carry again those that misplaced their lives, or make the sport any safer. In truth, [it] provides the terrorists precisely what they needed. We have grow to be SO tender as a society in almost each manner,” Ziegler wrote.
“The ‘you possibly can by no means be too protected’ individuals appear to fake that there are not any residential prices for suspending an occasion of the magnitude of the Sugar Bowl. Tens of 1000’s of individuals have traveled to New Orleans with no lodge for tomorrow evening, or flight reservations for Friday.”
Meanwhile, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy disagreed with those that have criticized suspending the sport, insinuating that these individuals are “idiots.”
“Ok so it’s postponed. And the individuals saying shifting it 24 hours lets the terrorist win are idiots. It’s [one] day. Secure the world. Do what ya gotta do. Delaying a sport 24 hours isn’t letting them win,” Portnoy wrote on X.
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Police and EMS autos reply to a mass casualty incident reported on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Jan. 1, 2025. (WVUE)
Allstate Sugar Bowl CEO Jeff Hundley launched an announcement sending ideas and prayers to all of the victims of the assault, whereas thanking those that have accommodated the brand new begin time.
“Our ideas and prayers exit to the victims and their households as we work by way of this,” mentioned Jeff Hundley, the chief government officer of the Allstate Sugar Bowl. “We have full religion and confidence within the governor and the mayor and all of the federal, state, and native first-responders that they’ve utilized to this horrific occasion. Any time we have now an occasion just like the Sugar Bowl, public security is paramount, and all events concerned agree that might solely be achieved with a postponement. Now we’ll transfer forward to maintain the main points to make the Sugar Bowl the first-class, enjoyable, and protected occasion that it has been for over 90 years.”
“On behalf of the College Football Playoff, we’re devastated by this morning’s assault, and our hearts exit to the households and family members of these affected by this tragedy,” mentioned Rich Clark, the chief director of the College Football Playoff. “We are grateful to the management of the Sugar Bowl, New Orleans, the State of Louisiana and federal authorities as we work collectively to make sure we will present a protected setting for everybody. We are additionally appreciative of ESPN’s flexibility in shifting the sport to tomorrow afternoon.”
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