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[snip] "Wednesday afternoon, at around 2:45 p.m., Congresswoman Scanlon was carjacked at gunpoint in FDR Park. [snip] Police say Scanlon was approached by two black males, aged approximately 20-30, as she walked to her vehicle before they demanded she hand them the keys.[snip]Scanlon represents Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District, which includes part of South Philadelphia.In 2021 so far, the Philadelphia Police Department has reported 521 homicides, which is a 13% increase compared to 2020 and the city's highest number of killings since at least 2007. Incidents involving a shooting have also increased by 4.4%, and the number of people who are...

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney immediately called for increased gun control in the wake of an alarming incident where a convicted felon shot and wounded six police officers attempting to serve a drug-related warrant. “Our officers need help,” he told CBS News. “They need help. They need help with gun control. They need help with keeping these weapons out of these people’s hands.” He doubled down in his call for gun control when he told ABC News, “If the state and federal government don’t want to stand up to the NRA and other folks, let us police ourselves. Our officers deserve...

An armed Antifa group is launching a new cell in Philadelphia, with support from the “alt-left” alternative media. The group currently hosts anti-police workshops called “Our Enemies in Blue.” The group draws inspiration from convicted murderers and calls for violence against the police, theft of goods, and armed insurrection. Antifa websites like It’s Going Down, Sub.Media and Insurrection News have been promoting the group, which calls itself the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement, calling on their readers to donate to a Fundrazr account for the creation of the new cell. The press release the group published in far-left media is filled with...

HARRISBURG - Philadelphia prosecutors plan to announce criminal charges Tuesday against two more elected officials ensnared in the undercover sting investigation that state Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane rejected as too flawed to prosecute. District Attorney Seth Williams is expected to announce charges against State Reps. Vanessa Lowery Brown and Ronald G. Waters, both Philadelphia Democrats, for allegedly accepting cash from an undercover operative, according to people familiar with the matter. Waters' attorney, Fortunato Perri Jr., said he was making arrangements for Waters to turn himself in Tuesday morning. Perri said he expects Waters will face felony charges of conflict...

Police have identified the man charged with raping a 26-year-old woman in her apartment near Rittenhouse Square early Saturday morning. He is 28-year-old Milton Mateo Garcia, an illegal immigrant from Honduras.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9155J1V8XaM&feature=fvstTalk about ironic - Philadelphia to ban free speech - unless you got cash! Another attempt to take out the middle class by making it too expensive to participate. In Philadelphia if you don't have the cash you also get denied your first amendment rights. Hmmmmm Make this viral folks because the bull always starts small and keeps gaining momentum UNTIL it is stopped

United cabbies have elected driver accused of assault by brian x. mccrone / metro philadelphia JUL 21, 2008 PHILADELPHIA. The past two weeks have been momentous ones for the city’s roughly 3,000 taxi drivers, with an election July 9 that unified fragmented unions and a meeting last week that appointed 15 board members. But the election of longtime drivers’ advocate Ron Blount as president of the newly-formed Unified Taxi Workers Alliance — by 64 percent of an estimated 900 to 1,000 votes cast — has put the new group at immediate odds with the Philadelphia Parking Authority. Blount, who was...

Police said alleged drug dealer Jack Ferguson was dreaming of a white Christmas. But the white was not snow, it was cocaine due to arrive at Ferguson's West Philadelphia home in a Christmas card. "There was about 40 grams in each card. There were four cards, about $17,000 worth of cocaine," Philadelphia Police Captain Chris Werner said. But police said when Ferguson was about to enjoy his card and the cocaine delivery, he suddenly realized that the card and the drugs were not being brought by Santa. Instead they were delivered by Captain Werner's field narcotic unit.

Maybe it was Congress' effort to show the general public that there are actually people less trustworthy than congressmen. Our elected representatives naturally grew impatient with the non-answers, probably in much the same way that investigators grow impatient when they depose a congressman about taking bribes from a defense contractor. --snip-- Mondesire's criticism of McNabb was beyond bizarre. At least with Limbaugh you couldn't pretend to be surprised. But when the Philadelphia chapter president of the NAACP accuses you of selling out your race by staying in the pocket, good God, you couldn't possibly see that coming. Talk about a...

After squabbling with local unions, the producers of the MTV series today gave up on Philadelphia as the site of its 15th season. Taping was to begin in three weeks. "After considerable evaluation, we are disappointed to announce that Bunim/Murray Productions has decided not to shoot The Real World in Philadelphia," a spokeswoman for the company said this afternoon. She declined to elaborate.