By Jon Dougherty
(NationalSentinel) As Philadelphia police officers responded to an ambush of their fellow officers Wednesday afternoon, residents of the City of Brotherly Love pelted some of them with objects, in what has become the latest sign of social breakdown and resistance to authority in another major American city.
Officers under fire, meanwhile, were struggling to gain control of the situation involving an armed suspect, even as some Philly residents were also seen impeding officers, confronting them in an aggressive manner, and shoving them.
Police officers came under fire as they attempted to serve an arrest warrant at a home in Philly’s Nicetown neighborhood. When it all over, six cops were wounded by a single suspect — Maurice Hill, 36, now in custody — who, reports said, was likely wanted for drug-related offenses.
Philly PD finally managed to subdue the suspect after calling in SWAT, but only after a lengthy showdown between officers and the shooter.
Police sources identified the shooter in a standoff at a Nicetown apartment building that left six police officers injured as Maurice Hill, 36 — a Philadelphia man with a lengthy history of gun convictions and of resisting attempts to bring him to justice. https://t.co/pWxf7kAuGf
— The Philadelphia Inquirer (@PhillyInquirer) August 15, 2019
Philadelphia police had been fired upon when serving an arrest warrant at a home in the city’s Nicetown neighborhood. Up to 6 officers were shot by a single individual, who may have been wanted for drug-related crimes.
A lengthy showdown ensued between Philadelphia police and the shooter. The authorities were ultimately able to bring the suspect into custody after calling in a SWAT team.
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It’s unclear why residents were upset with officers who were responding to a shootout, though there have been problems between police and residents in Philadelphia for several years.
Still, it’s becoming obvious to many social observers that portions of our major cities are steadily becoming “no-go zones” for police and other authorities as they seek to bring justice and order to increasingly restive — and distrustful — communities.
CBS Philadelphia reported:
At least six Philadelphia police officers were shot during a gun battle in Philadelphia’s Nicetown-Tioga section and rushed to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon, authorities say. Two officers and three others who were trapped inside the home with the shooter were safely evacuated several hours after the standoff began. The gunman surrendered just after midnight.
All six officers wounded in the shooting have been released from the hospital. Another officer injured in a car crash on the way to the scene still remains hospitalized.
“It’s nothing short of a miracle that we don’t have multiple officers killed today,†Police Commissioner Richard Ross said.
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Pathetic. When cops get enough of this BS and walk off the job en mass someday (soon), these people will become victims of their own making.
Moron, PoPo is not your friend. I hate negros but they get this right. Stop being naive. Wake up!
OK, good. When someone kicks in your door and steals all your stuff, or someone breaks into your car or even STEALS it, DON’T CALL THE COPS. m-kay? Moron.
Increasingly the police have adopted the “tourists in blue” response. They show up to work to collect their paychecks and they might make an arrest if they witness a crime in progress but preventative policing of the sort that makes communities safe and investigation of crimes that have already occurred is rapidly disappearing.
Society as we know it is crumbling before our eyes. If they choose to continue, I would pull the officers from the neighborhoods. Let the residents police themselves.
“Pulling” police from those neighborhoods is how this crud started.
No it is not. You are simply making things up. In other words, you are lying.
Nah just the inner cities. Things look great outside my window.
Time to stop being afraid of hurting some crybaby lib-tards feelings.
Pretty much whats happening now in places like Chicago, Flynt, Baltimore and Compton. There are others.
Police: why even try anymore? let their hole of a neighborhood burn.
Interfering with or attacking an Officer of the Law is a Federal offense whether it be a Police Officer, ICE Agent, etc. The people attacking these officers should be arrested!
Police should just stop showing up in those areas. Or grow a set and arrest the (usual) rioters and the folks who attack them. That’s what it is…a mini riot. The gimmes must not be getting enough free stuff…
Looking at things in a kind of holistic way, this is the situation being created. First, they want to get rid of the 2nd Amendment. They say that if you need protection, that is what the police are for. However, as you can see, the cops can’t and won’t protect themselves in the face of this ethic violence and disrespect. As the level of civil discord increases, you are expected to stand down. Put your life in the hands of the police. I say, screw that. Don’t ever give up your guns.
The left has already convinced a goodly portion of our soft in the head population that the GUN is evil and they shouldn’t own one, now they are trying to pass laws that will allow them to claim a portion of gun owners are too unstable to own guns. It will be something similar in the future until, not too many own guns, then they’ll just confiscate the rest. I think they will miscalculate the willingness to fight back when the time comes.
Don’t ever vote democrat.
This is what happens when you let politicians pick and choose which laws get enforced. It goes right down a slippery slope to anarchy.
Start “drive by'” policing like they have in Baltimore. No good comes from ghetto culture.
Pull the cops from those neighborhoods and let the residents work it out. Won’t be long before they’ll be begging the cops to come back.
I would love to see that but the criminals would quickly take over. They outnumber in those hoods. Democrat policies attract criminals and are a petri dish for chaos.
Instead of putting themselves at risk of being shot in the back by criminals they should just abandon those “hoods”. Let them fend for themselves.