Several NOPD officers were honored Thursday (Jan. 9) for their swift and selfless actions during the New Year’s Day terror attack on Bourbon Street. The officers were praised for running toward danger when Shamsud Din Jabbar drove a truck through the crowded street,

A suspect drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, creating a mass casualty incident. 14 are dead and dozens are injured.

The council, in the first of multiple oversight hearings, is expected to hear from NOPD and Department of Public Works officials about planning that preceded the deadly attack, centering around questions of how Jabbar was able to evade defenses to tear down the famous party thoroughfare.