New Orleans strengthens 'anti-looting plan' with city-wide CURFEW, as almost 1 million. Residents remain without power after the hurricane

The city of New Orleans has been put under a curfew, forcing residents to stay home at night indefinitely as authorities try to prevent looting after a devastating hurricane knocked power out of Louisiana.

With immediate effect, the curfew was at. 8pm announced by New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Tuesday afternoon and expected to continue “Until it ends” of the city administration on an as yet unspecified date. The curfew makes exceptions for “Emergency and relief work [sic], ” and extends to 6 am each morning.

During a Tuesday press conference, Cantrell defended his decision to implement “Anti-looting team” across the city in an attempt to stem a series of thefts and burglaries that followed Hurricane Ida, which landed Sunday and wreaked havoc across the Gulf Coast. The mayor said the anti-looting initiative, carried out in collaboration with the State National Guard, had been “Effective” so far, but would nevertheless be expanded with additional staff.

“I spoke this morning about our plan to combat looting, which has been in place and has been effective. But I also discussed that we want to increase additional capacity … from a proactive point of view. It’s with the Louisiana National Guard, too. “ Cantrell told reporters.

Just shy of 1 million Louisiana residents remain without power after the Category 4 hurricane virtually destroyed the state’s power infrastructure, while about 177,000 in Orleans parish are still in the dark, according to to outage tracker PowerOutage.us. At least four people were killed in the storm, including two in Louisiana and two in Mississippi.

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