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FILE - A reveler poses for a picture during the West Indian Day Parade on Sept. 2, 2024, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

NEW YORK – New York City’s West Indian American Day Parade, one of the world’s largest celebrations of Caribbean culture, is set to step off Monday with increased security after a fatal shooting at last year’s event .

The police department is sending thousands of officers plus helicopters and drones and using barricades to create a “moat” between marchers and the many spectators lining the nearly 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) Brooklyn parade route, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

It will be the department’s largest deployment of the year, Tisch said, with more offi

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