New York’s traditional Thanksgiving Day parade gets underway with huge crowds lining city streets from Central Park to Herald Square amid tight security following recent terror attacks.
As thousands of people applauded marching bands, elaborate floats and enormous balloons — bearing the likenesses of SpongeBob SquarePants, Mickey Mouse, Angry Birds and other comic creatures — a huge contingent of thousands of police patrol the 2.5-mile (four-kilometer) parade route.
New York Police Department officers are greeted by people before the start of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, November 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
With the festive event coming just weeks after the October 31 truck attack on a bike path in New York that killed eight people — many of them foreign tourists — the city went all-out to ensure security.
Massive dump trucks were parked at intersections to prevent just such an incident, along with concrete barriers.
Police Chief Terence Monahan said aviation units, heavy weapons teams, canine units and observation teams would be deployed in extraordinary efforts to ensure security.
— AFP
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