Posted on 05/11/2010 1:04:20 PM PDT by JoeProBono
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Gerri Bostic lost all her material possessions 25 years ago when police dropped a bomb on her block, killing five children and six adult members of the militant group MOVE and incinerating 61 row homes.
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That’s one of my earlier memories (born 1980). I grew up 30 miles south of Philly and that was THE news on the local channels for days.
The media ignored the 40th anniversary of the explosion of the Weather Underground bomb factory in a Greenwich Village apartment complex this March...
Just sayin’
The Lefts Waco....
Good catch.
I say that as someone who went through Katrina here in Mississippi.
Now I WONDER what all of those “blighted areas” have in common? Any guesses??
'cept in Philly the authorities tried to properly serve a warrant.
Did conservatives run Philly (and the Philly PD) in 1985?
In the weeks imediatly after Katrina, I worked in Biloxi, then N.O. In Biloxi we only had one security guard, a Barney Fife sort, never needed him. In N.O. we had a professional security team of about 15 former special forces. They were called on routinely to secure the aggressive, and sometimes violent, locals, and hold several persons till arresting officers could arrive. A world of differance in the people of the two locales.
No. The Mayor at the time was a Black Democrat by the name of Wilson Goode. He was a babbling idiot. I forget who the police chief was, but he wasn't much better. Goode was afraid to do anything that might result in casualties, which of course isn't going to work against a bunch of nutcakes behind a barricade with weapons. The cops bungled things nine ways from Sunday, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Interestingly, Goode's predecessor as Mayor was Frank Rizzo, who served previously as Police Commissioner. Rizzo was a tough South Philly Italian boy who took no crap from anyone. He was actually concerned about something like the MOVE situation happening, and when he was Mayor, he wanted to buy a couple of armored vehicles to deal with it. The press went into an uproar about "Rizzo's tanks," and the City Council turned yellow and refused to vote the funds. The "tanks" could have easily taken out the MOVE barricades and eliminated any need to drop "the bomb."
So the left committed Waco and the left committed "the Left's Waco".
The Goode administration hemmed and hawed about MOVE, and there was no decision. There was eventually a vague command to the cops to try to remove the rooftop barriers. The cops, sensing no real support for the effort, decided to end the siege by overpacking the charge that was to be dropped from the helicopter. They fried the MOVE critters, but bye-bye a few blocks of West Philadelphia.
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