Posted on 08/15/2019 6:54:42 AM PDT by C19fan
A crowd outside a Philadelphia home taunted police as they battled an AK-47 wielding gunman accused of shooting six of their officers and holding another two hostage on Wednesday.
The man finally surrendered after a dramatic standoff that lasted nearly eight hours.
'A major moment of disappointment this evening was watching a crowd of people taunt police officers, laughing and yelling at them in the midst of the gunfire,' tweeted CBS3 reporter Alexandria Hoff early Thursday morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Interesting that at 4:30 on a weekday afternoon there all of these able bodied young men hanging around the neighborhood. Maybe they work a night shift somewhere.
“I want you to be nice, until it’s time not to be nice.”
And many,many Americans are ARMED BIGTIME.
Definitely an occasion where some collateral damage by the criminal could be tolerated shooting towards that crowd. Maybe next time police won't expand the zone keeping the lookie-lous back at a safe distance and can give them a closer look.
yes, socialist welfare has destroyed most of a race in our nation - and it only continues more and more.......with self-righteous progressives truly blind to what they have done, and thus unrepentant.
And that race worships the feet of those who destroy them......
Urban America looks more and more like the final scenes from Children of Men
Typical Eagles fans.
Antifa, Patriot’’s Prayer, and Proud Boys in Portland, this Saturday.
Obamas and the Lefts disdain for the police is starting to have real world consequences. Will they proudly stand up and take credit for creating these ugly mobs?
Police should simply leave the neighborhood to itself.
Portland, OR would be an exception to the community you didn’t describe.
Should’a killed the bastard.
They'll have 'em too...criminals do not obey gun laws.
In before the first “If there was no drug raid, there’d be no shooting”.
Democrats all.
And the mayor had a fit at the NRA — because
“he had access to unlimited guns and ammo”
Hey Mayor, get your communities on board. I’ll bet if there were really unlimited guns, these bystanders would be shooting at the cops instead of laughing at them.
The author spelled “Killadelphia” wrong.
In other news, the Philadelphia Police department is having a job fair next week.
Knowing what is going to happen, why do they have these events in places like Portland? It never ends well. Plus you end up with a bunch of Youtube videos of people yelling at each other for 25 minutes and then someone throws a punch. Yawn.
“...why didnt they just fill the place with tear gas and stop the incident?...why drag it out..?”
Well, that wouldn’t have gotten the entire nation’s attention, so Mayor Kenney could say what he said, which was essentially that only cops should have “this much firepower.”
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