{"id":11226,"date":"2021-09-01T12:09:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T04:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11226"},"modified":"2021-09-01T12:09:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T04:09:46","slug":"new-orleans-imposes-curfew-in-wake-of-hurricane-ida-to-stop-looting-ensure-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11226","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans imposes curfew in wake of Hurricane Ida to stop looting, ensure safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON, Sept&nbsp;1 &#8212; New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said she has imposed a citywide curfew that is effective immediately in order to keep residents safe and to prevent looting amid a power outage that occurred as a result of Hurricane Ida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe citywide curfew from 8.00 pm\u00a0to 6.00 am\u00a0(CDT) will be effective immediately,\u201d\u00a0Cantrell said on Tuesday, reported Sputnik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Orleans Police Chief Shaun Ferguson warned residents who evacuated not to return to their homes because the city was still without power and had very limited capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-28-at-12.39.35.png\" alt=\"curfew\" class=\"wp-image-11125\" width=\"501\" height=\"311\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ferguson said the city\u2019s streets were still blocked with debris and driving at night is unsafe because the traffic lights were not working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ferguson added that there have been several arrests for looting and the authorities will continue to make arrests if such crimes continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana on Sunday as a Category 4 storm before weakening to a Category 1 as it moved&nbsp;along the coast across the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\">NMT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Sept&nbsp;1 &#8212; New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said she has imposed a citywide curfew&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsium-slider-full":"","newsium-featured":"","newsium-medium":""},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=59\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11227,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226\/revisions\/11227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}