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Police: Gun owner saved cop from attack by kids (40 "kids" surrounding cop)
Philly.com ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.philly.com ...


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In a sane world, this would make National news.

Where is the BLM movement on this?

1 posted on 02/10/2016 6:28:15 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA
Teens?

No more information... were they those white racists surrounding a black lady cop... no, that would be national news...

2 posted on 02/10/2016 6:29:34 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: Red in Blue PA

Must be all of those violent Finns?


3 posted on 02/10/2016 6:33:01 PM PST by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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[”There were 40 kids.”]

Clutching Teddy Bears, no doubt.


4 posted on 02/10/2016 6:33:19 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Red in Blue PA

The Americas next Detroit!


5 posted on 02/10/2016 6:34:46 PM PST by keving (We get the government we vote forever)
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To: Red in Blue PA

6 posted on 02/10/2016 6:36:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism... Hatred is the basis of communism" --Vladimir Lenin)
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7 posted on 02/10/2016 6:36:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

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.


8 posted on 02/10/2016 6:38:12 PM PST by cyclotic (Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Tina Fey, Jim Croce and Todd Rungren are past graduates from this high school.


9 posted on 02/10/2016 6:38:46 PM PST by PGR88
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Boo! Leave Clint out of this!


10 posted on 02/10/2016 6:39:26 PM PST by MLL
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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.

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160210_Police__Gun_owner_saved_cop_from_attack_by_kids.html#sCJQxS6MJsgbVefO.99


11 posted on 02/10/2016 6:45:26 PM PST by Hojczyk
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Wow Upper Darby is ghetto? I remember when it was a nice suburb.


12 posted on 02/10/2016 6:46:05 PM PST by catbertz
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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.


13 posted on 02/10/2016 6:48:13 PM PST by matt04
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and if they want to be gangsters, we’ll treat them like gangsters,” Chitwood said.

Sure you will. They will plea bargain their way out and be doing this again in no time.
14 posted on 02/10/2016 6:48:33 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Red in Blue PA

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.


15 posted on 02/10/2016 6:49:44 PM PST by ExGeeEye (Mohammed was a war mongering pedophile rapist who started a Satanic death cult. Arrest me, Lynch.)
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To: Hojczyk

Chitwood? How dare you? Clint is the man - get his name right! :)


16 posted on 02/10/2016 6:54:11 PM PST by MLL
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To: Hojczyk
4,000 kids in one school that is insane

Government schools are just prison-preparatory institutions.

17 posted on 02/10/2016 6:57:02 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism... Hatred is the basis of communism" --Vladimir Lenin)
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To: MSF BU
Must be all of those violent Finns?

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18 posted on 02/10/2016 6:59:51 PM PST by null and void (This war starts in the spiritual realm-it will end in ours though.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Kids?


19 posted on 02/10/2016 7:02:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Kids?

You know, teens. Youths. Yutes.

20 posted on 02/10/2016 7:06:37 PM PST by Disambiguator
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