NEW Orleans police’s transformation in recent years helped prevent further bloodshed in Wednesday morning’s horror terror attack, a former assistant district attorney has claimed.
Rafael Goyeneche, a Louisiana native and president of the New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Commission (MCC), works opposite the Ceasars Superdome, just minutes from the French Quarter, where 14 people were killed in the early hours of 2025.
Shamsud Din Jabbar, a Texas-born US Army veteran, drove a rented pickup truck through New Year’s Eve revelers before he was killed by cops in a firefight.
But in the wake of the horror, cops have been praised for their bravery as they rushed to the scene to take down Jabbar.
Goyeneche, who served as Assistant District Attorney in Orleans Parish between 1980 and 1986, believes that the police’s quick actions saved many lives that night.