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In Terror-Wary NYC, Security Tight for Thanksgiving Parade

By COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Sand-
filled sanitation trucks and
police sharpshooters will
mix with glittering floats and
giant balloons at a Macy’s
Thanksgiving Day Parade
that comes in a year of ter-
rible mass shootings and
not even a month after a
deadly truck attack in low-
er Manhattan.
New York City’s mayor and
police brass have repeat-
edly stressed that layers of
security, along with hun-
dreds of officers, will be in
place for one of the na-
tion’s biggest outdoor holi-
day gatherings, and that
visitors should not be de-
terred.
“We had a couple of tough
months as a nation,” Po-
lice Commissioner James
O’Neill said. “We won’t
ever accept such acts of
hate and cowardice as in-
evitable in our society.”
A posting last year in an Police officers stand near the site where balloons are being inflated for the Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, Wednesday, Nov.
English-language maga- 22, 2017. Sand-filled sanitation trucks and police sharpshooters will mix with glittering floats and giant balloons at a Macy’s Thanks-
zine of the Islamic State giving Day Parade that comes in a year of terrible mass shootings and a deadly truck attack in lower Manhattan.
group, which took credit (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
for the Oct. 31 truck attack that we swore to protect This year’s security plan in- stretching from Central Park dows and balconies for
that killed eight people, that anytime something cludes dozens of city sani- to Macy’s flagship store on anything unusual.
mentioned the Thanksgiv- happens anywhere in the tation trucks, which weigh 34th Street. New York officials are also
ing parade as “an excel- world, the NYPD works with about 16 tons empty and In addition, officers with as- asking the tens of thou-
lent target. our law enforcement part- up to twice that with sand, sault weapons and porta- sands of spectators to be
” Authorities say there is no ners and studies it and we that will be lined up as im- ble radiation detectors will alert for anything suspi-
confirmation of a credible learn from it and it informs posing barriers to traffic at walk among the crowds, cious.
threat. our decision making going every cross street along and sharpshooters on roof-
“I want to assure the people forward,” O’Neill said. the 2 ½-mile parade route tops will scan building win- Continued on Page 2