By Rodrigo Torrejón
Source The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Super Bowl LIX: First Responders in New Orleans Attack Lauded
- New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan introduced the police officers and other first responders who were on hand for the New Year's Day attack in the French Quarter that killed 14 people.
La. Deputy Injured Directing Traffic Near Superdome
- An East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy was helping with traffic control at an intersection several blocks from the Superdome, and a suspect was arrested in the incident.
Philadelphia police made 10 arrests, including six for assaults on officers, during the raucous celebration of the Eagles' Super Bowl win Sunday night, authorities said.
Six people were arrested for assaults on police, said department spokesperson Sgt. Eric Gripp. And police made four other arrests: one for reckless endangerment, two for aggravated assault, and one for disorderly conduct, he said.
There were also eight reports of vandalism, said Gripp.
Despite calls from Mayor Cherelle L. Parker that revelers avoid the customary — and dangerous — tradition of climbing poles, multiple people climbed light poles along Broad Street.
As massive throngs of people took to the streets after the Eagles won their second Super Bowl, some in the crowd attempted to flip a police vehicle at Broad and Chestnut Streets. More than a dozen people danced on top of a medic vehicle. And a group of people took towels out from a moving truck at 12th and Market Streets and started setting them on fire, police said.
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