Trump meets families of New Orleans terror attack victims, law enforcement officials ahead of Super Bowl LIX

President Donald Trump has made his Super Bowl debut, and 1 of his archetypal priorities was to grant those who were killed successful the Jan. 1 New Orleans panic attack. 

Upon arriving astatine the Superdome connected Sunday, Trump met with the families of aggregate victims of the attack arsenic good arsenic members of the New Orleans Police Department and exigency personnel. 

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President Donald Trump meets with the families of victims of the Jan. 1 violent onslaught arsenic good arsenic members of the New Orleans Police Department and exigency unit earlier Super Bowl LIX astatine Caesars Superdome. (James Lang-Imagn Images)

President Donald Trump poses with members of the New Orleans Police Department and exigency unit earlier the commencement of the Super Bowl LIX. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

At slightest 14 radical were killed successful the Jan. 1 onslaught and 57 much were injured. 

The 14 victims who were killed were 27-year-old erstwhile Princeton shot subordinate Tiger Bech, 26-year-old Drew Dauphin, 18-year-old Nikyra Dedeaux, 28-year-old azygous parent Nicole Perez, 37-year-old Reggie Hunter, 21-year-old Hubert Gauthreaux, Alabama pupil Kareem Bilal Badawi, 25-year-old Matthew Tenedorio, 25-year-old Billy DiMaio, 63-year-old Terrence Kennedy, 42-year-old Brandon Taylor, 40-year-old Elliot Wilkinson and 31-year-old Edward Pettifer. 

The fishy successful the onslaught was identified arsenic 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. national from Texas and an Army veteran, who died aft the onslaught successful a firefight with police. 

Some of the plaintiffs affected by the New Year's terrorist attack connected Bourbon Street successful New Orleans person filed a civilian negligence suit against the city's enactment and the backstage companies that were hired to consult the metropolis astir information readying successful the French Quarter.

The suit has 21 plaintiffs, immoderate of whom are household members of the deceased, others are survivors who were critically injured successful the attack. 

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President Donald Trump visits the tract earlier the commencement of Super Bowl LIX betwixt the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles astatine Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans connected Feb. 9, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

"New Orleans is everlastingly changed by this tragedy, and we’ve seen countless radical present change their behaviour and debar Bourbon Street and adjacent the City itself retired of fearfulness for their carnal safety. Further, it’s intolerable to quantify however galore radical present endure crippling depression, anxiousness and nightmares from what they saw and heard during that attack. It is intolerable to quantify this tragedy's astounding interaction connected our community," Maples & Connick spouse Aaron Maples said successful a statement. 

The attack, on with Trump's presence, prompted large information protocol questions amid concerns of further information to the Super Bowl. 

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the U.S. Secret Service's attack for Sunday's lawsuit successful an interrogation with "Fox & Friends."

"For this event, we've deployed galore different assets arsenic well. We're evidently moving with the section authorities, with the politician and with his agencies that helium has that he's elaborate to this," Noem said. 

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President Donald Trump gestures to the assemblage earlier the commencement of the Super Bowl LIX. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

"But we person respective antithetic agencies nether the Department of Homeland Security that person enactment hundreds of individuals, investigators and subject constabulary folks that are utilized to these kinds of assemblage power and information operations successful their different departments that are focused connected contiguous to marque definite that this large lawsuit is going to beryllium harmless and that we're going to marque the close decisions successful these situations that could originate and get everybody location safely." 

Noem besides said DHS has regulations for the airspace regarding drone traffic arsenic good arsenic cybersecurity operations to show online activity. 

"We volition beryllium utilizing antithetic agencies and departments nether the umbrella of Homeland Security, but President Trump has besides made a committedness for america to beryllium capable to deploy different assets from different departments and agencies, and I admit the flexibility that helium has fixed america to marque definite that we're addressing this adjacent successful a mode that we spot arsenic responsive coming forward," Noem said. "We're grateful for that interagency support, and I judge that it is unprecedented." 

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said helium was deploying an further 350 National Guard troops to enactment the national effort.

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