According to reports, Master P stood alongside New Orleans Mayor LaTonya Cantrell to mark the long-awaited reopening of Bourbon Street, following a devastating terrorist attack that left at least 14 dead.
In an Instagram video shared Thursday, January 2, the rapper strolls along the legendary avenue, remarking, “I’m out here, standing up for our people on Bourbon Street and in New Orleans, we gonna bounce back. It’s nothing but love out here, showing that Bourbon Street is opening back up.” He continued, “The love that’s out here is incredible cause this evil act that happened, it can’t stop the Lord’s plan.” Master P later emerges with local residents, leading a group of officials down the historic street to the sound of lively music.
In the caption, he wrote: “Built on Resilience. We Stronger Together. City Of New Orleans.”
14 Dead in New Year’s Attack; ISIS Affiliate Identified as Perpetrator
Reportedly, a pickup truck tore through a crowd of New Year’s revelers, leaving at least 14 dead in a night marked by chaos and heartbreak. Nonetheless, the individual responsible, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was fatally shot by law enforcement at the location.
Jabbar, once a U.S. Army veteran deployed in Afghanistan, later pledged allegiance to ISIS. In a series of SoundCloud recordings, he fervently denounced what he saw as corrupting forces, including music, drugs, and sexuality, labeling them as “evil” vices. One of the recordings even suggests that hip-hop influences “things that God has made forbidden to us: the intoxicants like marijuana, alcohol, sedatives, opioids, stimulants and others.”
Later, while addressing the nation, President Joe Biden stated, “I’ve directed my attorney general, the FBI director, the secretary of Homeland Security, the head of the National Counterintelligence and Terrorism Center, and the intelligence community to work on this intensively until we have a full and complete information. And once we have that information, I will share that information as soon as we can confirm it.” He further elaborated that he “directed my team to make sure every resource, every resource is made available to federal, state and local law enforcement to complete the investigation in New Orleans quickly and to make sure there is no remaining threat to the American people.”
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