Family of New Orleans attack survivor: ‘They should’ve protected people better’

Safety failures scrutinized after Emile Graham was badly injured during attack and witnessed his best friend's death

Loved ones of a man who witnessed his best friend's murder during the deadly New Year's morning truck attack in New Orleans - and was badly wounded himself - have been lamenting the city's failure to better protect revelers on its most famous street that day.

After revelations that the city either took down or chose not to deploy three different types of barriers that it had to prevent vehicular ramming attacks like the one that killed 14 people and hurt nearly 60 others on Bourbon Street on 1 January, the father of injured victim Emile Luui" Graham said: They should've protected people better than this."