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Dirt-bike and ATV riders ambush cops with bricks and bottles in Dem-run city
Posted on 10/18/2022 11:08:57 AM PDT by conservative98
A group of violent Philadelphia ATV drivers was caught on video attacking police by throwing bricks and bottles at the officers before fleeing the scene, police said.
The group unleashed its assault on police just one day after a Republican city councilman accused the administration of Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, of instructing officers "not to enforce the law."
The Philadelphia Police Department shared video on Tuesday showing "a large group of people riding dirt bikes and ATV’s" around a gas station near Delaware Avenue and Spring Garden Street, police said.
According to police, a dirt bike rider initially crashed a vehicle near the gas pumps and ran off. Investigators later determined the bike had been reported stolen from New Jersey.
However, the situation then devolved further, police said.
"As officers attempted to secure the stolen dirt bike the crowd began to circle the officers while throwing bricks, bottles and other objects at them," Philadelphia Police said. "One marked police vehicle was kicked repeatedly and had it’s (sic) windshield broken with brick before the group fled the area."
Video footage shows the chaos unfolding – with one ATV driver doing donuts near the gas pumps as a dirt bike rider approaches and hurls an object at a police vehicle.
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Just one day earlier, Philadelphia City Councilman At-Large David Oh responded to a different video showing hordes of dirt-bike and ATV riders, and wrote: "This has to stop."
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Dirt-bike and ATV riders ambush cops with bricks and bottles in Dem-run city
Those people are annoying.
Mad Max time is here!
When LEOs are prohibited from defending themselves, why would anyone expect LEOs to defend a civilian?
Shooting them repeatedly will help with recidivism
Systemic?
That is two shots to the chest and one to the head.
The cops did the right thing. Defending themselves might have led to riots.
What Would Frank Rizzo Do?
We were harassed by those people the last time I went to Philly.
This was one block from Independence Hall.
or Wilson Goode?? LOL!!!
Ban Dirt Bikes and ATV’s Now!!
The dirt bike and atv riders in the sticks where I grew up never behaved that way.
Getting there, hope it doesn't. In those movies, Mel Gibson played the lead role of a cop whose wife and child are run down and killed by a biker thug. Everything got more vicious after that. Not safe for innocents anywhere.
Memphis now too. We’ve been considering a dark rope across the street at night on my street. Pull it when they come thru. The cops do nothing about them. They cause accidents everywhere because they don’t stop at traffic signals or have their lights on.
Hilarious, let the cities burn! Support defend the police in the cities!
just another opening salvo in American’s version of ‘The Troubles’. This, and much more, will happen for at least the next generation.
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