FILE – The FBI investigates the area on Orleans Street and Bourbon Street by St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter where a suspicious package was detonated after a person drove a truck into a crowd earlier on Bourbon Street on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)
“You can’t live in fear and not have events.”
— Shari Godinez, executive director of Koreatown Northgate Community Benefit District, which regularly hosts a popular monthly block party on Telegraph Avenue along the edge of downtown Oakland, on heightened local security following last week’s deadly truck ramming attack on New Year’s revelers in New Orleans.
Originally published at Bay Area News Group