BATON ROUGE – Downtown Baton Rouge was lit up Saturday night by the Krewe of Orion parade.
Like many parades this weekend, security was at the forefront. With this parade taking place just one week after a shooting at a Mardi Gras parade in East Feliciana Parish, WBRZ asked parade-goers how they felt about the security details at this year’s Krewe of Orion parade.
“I’ve seen a lot more police presence and everyone seems to be more at ease with it. In the last few years, they’d had some fights and stuff that kind of break out. (This year) I haven’t really heard anything. I guess the police presence has helped with that,” Parade-Goer Jacob Ramagos said…