When you thought it couldn't get any worse:
The CEO of Meridian Rapid Defense Group confirmed to Fox News that his company sold 48 Archer barriers to New Orleans in 2017 — the same barriers the city installed on sidewalks around the French Quarter before reopening Bourbon Street on Thursday after federal officials concluded their crime scene evaluation.
Pedestrians walk down Bourbon Street as it is reopened in New Orleans on Thursday.
Peter Whitford said the 700-pound, L-shaped steel barriers are "the strongest mobile barriers in the world," designed to stop a 5,500-pound truck going 60 mph.
"Not only did they not know they had them, they didn’t even know how to describe them," Whitford said of New Orleans officials describing the barriers. "Even now, in the pictures I’ve seen, the barriers aren’t even set up properly because the wheels are still down."