Posted on 02/10/2016 6:28:15 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
POLICE ARE crediting a vigilant gun owner with saving the life of an Upper Darby cop Friday after he saw the officer being attacked and surrounded by a large group of teens
"There were 40 kids. If it wasn't for the good Samaritan stepping forward, he'd have been dead meat," Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said. "There's no doubt they would have attacked him."
About 3 p.m. every weekday, from six to eight township police officers patrol the area near Upper Darby High School as nearly 4,000 kids pour out of the building on Lansdowne Avenue near School Lane.
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Where is the BLM movement on this?
No more information... were they those white racists surrounding a black lady cop... no, that would be national news...
Must be all of those violent Finns?
[”There were 40 kids.”]
Clutching Teddy Bears, no doubt.
The Americas next Detroit!
And two sheriff deputies were killed in my county in Maryland today. One executed, the other died in a shootout with the scumbag perp, who thankfully assumed room temperature.
Tina Fey, Jim Croce and Todd Rungren are past graduates from this high school.
Boo! Leave Clint out of this!
4,000 kids in one school that is insane
The 35-year-old gun owner, who has a concealed-carry permit, kept the group of teens at bay until responding officers arrived, Chitwood said.
Not only did the officer who tried to break up the fight suffer significant hand injuries, Chitwood said, but an officer who responded to the request for backup also suffered a major injury to a leg when he was kicked by one of the teens in the fight.
The two juveniles in that fight each were charged with aggravated assault on police, riot, harassment, and related offenses. They were remanded to the Delaware County juvenile detention facility in Lima, Chitwood said.
Six more youths were arrested for fighting around the same time that day at two other locations near the school, Chitwood said; one was sent to the juvenile detention facility and the other five were released to a parent or guardian. Six of the eight arrested students attend Upper Darby High. The seventh attends Beverly Hills Middle School; the eighth goes to a school in Ridley Township.
“There’s thousands of kids that walk to and from that school without a problem, but every once in a while you get these wannabe gangsters, and if they want to be gangsters, we’ll treat them like gangsters,” Chitwood said.
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Wow Upper Darby is ghetto? I remember when it was a nice suburb.
Let me guess, they were all good kids on their wary to Church when the officer provoked them and were simply defending themselves from the racist officer.
What I want to see from this is full-throated support of police agencies advocating for enabling all us would-be “good Samaritans” by removing the unconstitutional impediments to obtaining, carrying, and using arms in defense of ourselves, our neighbors, and our property.
I’d really like to hear about how “man with a gun” 9-1-1 calls got “so what” answers; how crime victims were asked what active measures they took to prevent their own victimization; I could go on, but I think my general drift could be divined.
Chitwood? How dare you? Clint is the man - get his name right! :)
Government schools are just prison-preparatory institutions.
Kids?
You know, teens. Youths. Yutes.
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