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Sand-filled dump trucks to protect Macy’s parade
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FANS of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade who come to see the soaring SpongeBob and Snoopy balloons may get a far less heartwarming sight this year: giant dump trucks filled with sand.
More than 80 city sanitation trucks will be used at intersections and other strategic spots along the more-than-3-kilometer parade route to create an imposing physical barrier to terror. The trucks weigh about 16 tons empty and up to twice that with sand.
“You can ram a New York City Sanitation Department sand truck with a lot of things, but you’re not going to move it,” said John Miller, the New York Police Department’s top counterterrorism official.
While the trucks have been used like this before — most recently to protect Trump Tower — the New York Police Department says that they will play a bigger role at this year’s parade in the wake of the cargo truck attack in Nice, France, that killed more than 80 people and a recent posting in an English-language Islamic State magazine that called the parade “an excellent target.”
But authorities say there’s no credible threat and they have urged spectators to not stay away. Miller said such postings are psychological warfare to spread a message of fear.
“We never accede to that,” he said.
A front-page headline in yesterday’s Daily News creatively said:
“Truck You, ISIS!”
Aside from the trucks, security for the parade includes officers armed with assault weapons, bomb-sniffing dogs and portable radiation detectors. The effort comes at a time when the nation’s largest police department is already stretching its resources to protect the midtown Manhattan home of President-elect Donald Trump.
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