Louisiana State AG Calls for Sugar Bowl to Be Postponed Further Amid Ongoing Terror Investigation
Louisiana State AG Liz Murrill appeared on Fox & Friends and urged local authorities to postpone the Georgia-Notre Dame college playoff game one more day following the terrorist attack in New Orleans early New Year’s Day.
The Sugar Bowl scheduled for Wednesday night at the Superdome between Georgia and Notre Dame has already been postponed one day. It is currently planned to kick off Thursday at 4 PM. Since that decision was made, however, more details have emerged about a larger coordinated attack and the possibility of IEDs around the city.
“What is your latest thinking on the security?” Griff Jenkins asked his guest. “I know you have said that perhaps another delay is in order. What can you tell us this morning?”
“Well, obviously, our first priority today is the safety of everybody in New Orleans while we kind of carry out and go through with this game,” she replied. “I did express some concern about that. I think that, you know, yesterday there were discussions about whether to have the game last night, which I frankly thought would was absurd. We still had bodies that had to be removed from the ground and an open investigation to secure the crime scene. And so, you know, it seemed to me that that was not a hard decision to make, even if the logistics of it might have been more complicated.”
When pressed about the current state of security, particularly in the French Quarter where the attack took place, AG Merrill offered, “There’s a lot going on. It’s a it’s an active investigation of a crime scene after a terrorist event. And I don’t think we can. I mean, it’s not possible to take this too seriously.”
Sandra Smith followed up by asking Merrill, “Attorney General, I just wonder, are officials on the same page here? I sense that you’re not ready for this game to happen today.”
“They didn’t ask my opinion about whether it should or shouldn’t, although I do have one,” she said. “I think that, you know, we certainly want to reassure people that we feel like they are safe in New Orleans. I just I think this is a very serious event. I would like to talk to the FBI this morning and to reach out. My priority this morning is to reach out to the Department of Justice and the FBI and make sure that they are giving top priority to this investigation.”
“The special agent in charge in New Orleans is out of the country,” she added. “That’s the individual who has the most experience and knowledge about the city and experience with public officials in the city and in the state. So I want to make sure that they’re taking this seriously and that they have put all of their best resources toward this investigation and that they are tracking these people down.”
“So, Madam Attorney General, if it was up to you if they were asking your opinion and you were making the decision, would you postpone this game today and for how long?” Jenkins followed.
“I would probably at least have postponed until Friday. But, you know, I think that they have secured the city. It’s okay, I guess, if they’re going forward with it, but I would probably have it delayed,” she concluded.
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