The person being out of town would give this more attention/resources and the rest of the country would think of this more as a national/international problem. A local person doing this would make it easier for this country to go on about its business thinking this is nothing more than just a New Orleans (and all its negative attributes) issue.
ISIS from New Orleans and ISIS from Denver and ISIS from Houston and ISIS from Miami IS STILL ISIS. Would you not go to those other cities if its revealed that the ONE person is from there.I really don't understand where your argument is coming from. There's no way you can conclude that if people outside the city believed this incident was just common local criminal mischief that it wouldn't have an affect on their opinion of the city and their desire to ever come to visit here.
I merely said that it's best for the city if/when the media makes it clear around the country that this crime was an attack from an outside source. How do you continue to find a problem with that statement?
There's also definitely a certain demographic that likes to make premature assumptions to reach convenient conclusions in order to demonize those they dislike or disagree with.
That’s the frustrating thing about these events- we all want to find the logical answers to insanely irrational actions
Perhaps they were expecting more security there than for NYE/Sugar Bowl.
Wow. I mean, I was 10 and not living here and even though it doesn't get brought up a lot, obviously something like this does bring it back up. My husband's told me a little as he pointed out the hotel the first time I was here and I think I've seen the local news report on it some. In this day and age, would that have been a story this huge?
We know that it happens everywhere. When I made that comment at the beginning of this thread I was worried about the hit to the reputation of the city. At the time no one outside of the immediate area was aware that this incident had nothing to do with the 'normal' crime & violence that some associate with New Orleans. Officials here know and have stated publicly that this perception can have an effect on tourism. I just didn't want to see my city have to suffer from more bad PR.
A lot of these kinds of ISIS attacks were "lone wolf" attacks. The group didn't really plan the attack, just one guy sympathetic to them did it. They've encouraged these kinds of attacks in the past.
Hmm, thinking that security at the SB will be 10 x greater vs. NYE with feds involved from the jump.
I remember coming home from school and watching that entire story unfolding nonstop on TV. To add to my family's anxiousness, my uncle was a New Orleans policeman who was on duty at the time. That whole scene atop the Howard Johnson's rooftop was very surreal to this young boy trying to make sense of it all.
Security would be much higher and sometimes they just look for whatever opportunity is there. Or maybe it's simply something snapped with this guy and he just decided he wasn't gonna wait any longer.
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