Wasn’t Philadelphia responsible for burning a lot of houses in the process of their official duties? I seem to recall something about that.
> Wasn’t Philadelphia responsible for burning a lot of houses
> in the process of their official duties? I seem to recall
> something about that.
Here ya go.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/14/us/police-drop-bomb-on-radicals-home-in-philadelphia.html
Wasn’t Philadelphia responsible for burning a lot of houses in the process of their official duties? I seem to recall something about that.”
Yes, MOVE Headquarters in Philly. The police fire bombed it and burned down the entire blovk.
“Wasn’t Philadelphia responsible for burning a lot of houses in the process of their official duties?”
Yeah, in Philly the MOVE compound was taken down and it burned a row of joined houses. But be fair here. The communist MOVE cell took over a block. On the roof of their house they built an armored pillbox. They were blasting bullhorn propaganda messages constantly and making like unliveable on the block. They filled the house with moths of garbage and vermin were running wild.
When the cops evacuated the block and tried to make arrests, the pillbox opened up with constant fire, including a decent amount of full auto fire. Over 10,000 rounds were fired in the shootout. At THAT point a police helo dropped 2 one pound bombs on the pillbox. That knocked over some illegally stored gasoline on the roof and the fire was off. Firefighters were held back because the automatic fire didn’t stop.
The attached row houses burned.
Everyone hyperventilates about that, but I have yet to hear a better plan. It was like rooting Japs out of a cave on Iwo Jima. Some people you cannot finesse or reason with. It takes cover fire, maneuver, and explosives.
That’s justa natural fact;