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| Philadelphia police attacked by ATV, dirt-bike riders who hurled bricks and bottles at officers |
| 2022-10-19 |
| [FoxNews] 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 that showed "a large group of people riding dirt bikes and ATVs" around a gas station near Delaware Avenue and Spring Garden Street, police said. According to police, a dirt-bike rider initially crashed 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 doughnuts near the gas pumps as a dirt-bike rider approaches and hurls an object at a police vehicle. Police body camera video shows the crime from a different view as sirens can be heard in the background. Just one day earlier, Philadelphia City Councilman at-large David Oh responded to a different video that showed hordes of dirt-bike and ATV riders. "This has to stop," he wrote. Oh also wrote that police "are instructed by the Mayor’s Administration not to enforce the law." "That has resulted in this escalating problem of reckless driving, no insurance, intentional disregard for public safety, likely possession of illegal firearms & potential violence," he added. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #3 I have seen the guys in Philly on dirt bikes riding wheelies and on the sidewalks. Its out of control. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2022-10-19 11:40 |
| #2 What's the point of enforcing the law when all you get is paperwork, insults and God forbid a confrontation should escalate to a racism/brutality/cop inhumanity thing. I think the cops understand this by now. No, they'll just take their salaries and strong arm the law abiding thank you. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-10-19 08:07 |
| #1 Seeing so many of these scenarios happening in major LSD controlled areas now. I am wondering if the LSD Mayor's and City Council's real agenda goal is to handicap local Law Enforcement to the point that they can call in the FED's. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-10-19 07:32 |