New Orleans police officers honored for response to New Year's Day terror attack
On Thursday, officers received certificates at the awards ceremony in Gallier Hall.
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Among those being honored were the officers who shot and killed the person behind the attack. One of those officers is Sergeant Nigel Daggs.
'We just had to do, unfortunately, a deed that had to be done out that ensure to save the individuals of the city. We're just in a position where we had to make a response on that horrific accident. Incident was something that was unforeseen in the city ever before, but it was just one of the things that we were called to be at that place in time to get,' said Daggs.
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