St. Patrick’s parade will be Kansas City’s first big event since the deadly Super Bowl celebration
Associated Press— Hundreds of thousands of people are expected at this weekend’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in Kansas City, where they should expect much tighter security measures than in past years due to last month’s deadly mass shooting at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration. Patrick J. McCarthy, a retired St. Louis police sergeant who has worked in security for 51 years, is in charge of making sure that both of the city’s big St. Patrick’s Day parades are safe. “We’re not going to stop that because some people might act a fool.” Kansas City’s St. Patrick’s Day parade is one of the nation’s biggest, typically drawing up to 400,000 people. Organizers of the Kansas City St. Patrick’s Day parade are eager to show that their community can rise above the violence of a month ago.
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