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Nice Attack Should Teach US Law Enforcement How to Secure Large Events

© REUTERS / Pascal RossignolA woman places a bouquet of flowers as people pay tribute near the scene where a truck ran into a crowd at high speed killing scores and injuring more who were celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday, in Nice, France, July 15, 2016.
A woman places a bouquet of flowers as people pay tribute near the scene where a truck ran into a crowd at high speed killing scores and injuring more who were celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday, in Nice, France, July 15, 2016. - Sputnik International
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The US law enforcement should learn a lesson on handling security at large public gatherings after deadly Bastille Day attack in Nice, France, Congressman Stephen Lynch told Sputnik on Friday.

A bouquet of flowers and a French flag is seen as people pay tribute near the scene where a truck ran into a crowd at high speed killing scores and injuring more who were celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday, in Nice, France, July 15, 2016. - Sputnik International
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Lynch, who represents the city of Boston, which suffered the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, noted that individuals should always take “reasonable precautions” at large events.

“I think this incident might inform our local law enforcement on how to harden our infrastructure for those larger events,” Lynch said of the Thursday night attack in Nice.

On Thursday night, a truck drove through a crowd of people gathered on the Promenade des Anglais to celebrate Bastille Day. At least 84 people, including children, were killed in the incident, which the French authorities have called a terror attack.

However, he acknowledged, “I don’t think there is any way you can answer the 100 percent guarantee that something like that won’t happen.”

The Thursday night attack occurred despite the French government declaration of a state of emergency throughout the country following the deadly terror attacks in Paris last November. On Friday morning, French President Francois Hollande extended that state of emergency for an additional three months.

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