Bollards began to malfunction shortly after the system was installed due to being clogged by Mardi Gras beads, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said.

The city of New Orleans appears to have had multiple methods on hand to protect pedestrians on Bourbon Street, but none of them were able to stop a man inspired by ISIS from using a pickup truck to ram into pedestrians celebrating the new year.

A New Year's Day truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans killed 14 people and injured 35 others, the FBI said Thursday. The suspect -- 42-year-old Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who also died in the attack -- was "hell-bent" on killing as many people as possible,

One day after a man drove a truck into New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street, law enforcement is searching for possible accomplices.

National News New Orleans barriers to prevent vehicle attacks were in the process of being replaced The project to remove and replace the bollards along about eight blocks of bust

New Orleans was in the process of replacing traffic bollards intended to protect against vehicle-ramming attacks when the deadly attack occurred.