13 People Shot in Philadelphia

[quote][bold] ‘I just heard screams’[/bold]

[quote] Joe Smith, 23, and his friend were outside of Theatre of the Living Arts on South Street waiting for a staff member to return his phone when shots rang out about 10 feet from the venue right before midnight.

[quote]”Once it started I didn’t think it was going to stop,” said Smith, who said he immediately thought of recent shootings in Buffalo, N.Y. and Uvalde, Texas “There was guttural screaming. I just heard screams.”

[quote] Smith said he other weekend revelers ran down South Street to 4th and Bainbridge Streets amid mass panic and confusion. They waited for police to open access to the garage where they parked.

Philly is worse than ever.

We have to know how many died before we can act shocked and upset.

Please update.

TIA!

The shooting scene is just blocks from the city’s Gayborhood, where streets and outdoor bars and restaurants were packed on a weather-perfect Saturday evening with revelers celebrating the 50th anniversary of Philadelphia’s first Gay Pride Day. A parade and festival are planned for Sunday.

If these assholes focused on shooting politicians and their families, you can bet something would have been done by now.

Another triumph!

In addition to those 2 shot dead, another 40 were shot dead somewhere in America.

South Street can be a bit menacing during the weeknights when it’s largely empty after 7:30 or so. This, on a Saturday? Almost unheard of.

And… cue the comments that access to guns still isn’t the source of the problem with mass shootings in America.

Maybe the NRA and Republicans can start a new prime time game show, in the 7:30 slot, Who Got Shot Today. Guess where and how many! Thoughts and prayers! Pump out more guns! Wave the flag! Murica!

Everything is working perfectly.

[quote] If these assholes focused on shooting politicians and their families, you can bet something would have been done by now.

R5 doesn't realize that Ramos displayed the same mindless anger as he was shooting dead 19 children and their teachers in Uvalde.

Guns are the #1 cause of death for children in the US. Republicans are the only ones standing in the way of reasonable gun control. They have blood on their hands. They deserve to be executed by firing squad.

Guns.

Philly is where one of the politicians was car jacked last year. The FBI had to get involved. The place has gone to shit with having an idiot mayor and a socialist DA who doesn’t prosecute. Even the American Bar Association wouldn’t support him.

R13, in Philly’s case, it’s leadership.

Uvalde was 2 weeks ago and feels like 2 months

[quote]Republicans are the only ones standing in the way of reasonable gun control. They have blood on their hands. They deserve to be executed by firing squad.

R12 America has had 244 years of opportunities to institute gun control. It hasn't. You know why? See your post.

They didn't have AR-15s 244 years ago, asshole.

Has a hero emerged?

R18 Which has absolutely NOTHING to do with the assertion in R17. But it does illustrate - if further illustration was needed - why Americans butcher each other with guns.

Once upon a time people or gangs at least had gunfights where they mostly killed each other, for revenge, dominance, payback, or turf wars. Now we just have numerous people who want to go out and shoot at a lot of innocent strangers.

Why did R17 edit out the face that:

Guns are the #1 cause of death for children in the US.

Oh, that's right, it doesn't serve R20 's agenda.

This wouldn't have happened if the teachers had guns.

Those kids deserved it.

R22 Are you blind? Did you not see R17 referenced R12?

I think most Americans need to just accept that we LIKE the violence. That includes many people on the left too, like the ones that were defending Will Smith for the slap and sticking up for his woman. Maybe it's because of the normalization of all of it.

Are you R25 a piece of shit?

R27 steps right up to prove yet again - as if more proof was necessary - how quickly discussion on an adult forum degenerates into a shoot the messenger because they have no response childish invective spewing match.

Look, I'm a leftie, but what exactly are Democrats actually going to do about guns, to effectively end mass shootings? The Democrats have had majorities and haven't done shit. I'd be happy to defend them vs evil Republicans if I really believed they were passionately trying to bring this case to the people and bring an end to this. I mean we have many Democrats in power now, nationally and in the cities. So...

Guns save lives! It’s our right to have guns!

*i. e. - the Republicans are not in power - certainly much less so than they were under Trump.

I hope those bodies didn't hurt those bullets.

The filibuster prevents anything from happening. Republicans us it to have minority control.

R6 nope not at all

Liberal mayor, check

Liberal DA, whose ever extremely soft on crime, check

Liberal police commissioner, check

There you have it motherfucker

The EXTREMELY liberal DA Krasner, who some think is on Soros payroll, needs to go

He has let out violent offenders repeatedly

I have family members in Philadelphia who were lifelong Democrats and now have switched to Republican because of how soft on crimes these Democrat "leaders" are in this big cities

Parents know from an early age their child is a maniac. They are either in denial or a maniac piece of shit themselves.

It's Philadelphia, what do you expect, that's life in the big city...

3 dead as of 6:15 am

Why do Democrats, who so much in favor if gun control, insist on dismantling the police units that take guns off the street?

Street parties in Philly inevitably lead to fights, which increasingly lead to gun fights.

r29 Let me introduce you to my good friends Manchin, Sinema and the non-talking veto. You were either yesterday or you're not a "leftie". We're up to our balls in gun violence because of the Republicans.

We are also up in balls in gun violence because Democrats have gone soft on crime and have normalized criminal behavior.

[quote]America has had 244 years of opportunities to institute gun control. It hasn't.

Bullshit, R17. We've had a long history of sensible gun laws in this country, including very strict laws against concealed carry. For the first 100 years of its existence, the NRA supported responsible guns laws and restrictions. This free-for-all nonsense began in the late 20th Century.

And you kweens come down on us like a ton of bricks over a couple of piles of poop on Market Street. We may have homeless and the prevalent sweet smell of meth urine wafting tru the air but at least we don’t slaughter each other.

give it time, r44

"Why do Democrats, who so much in favor if gun control, insist on dismantling the police units that take guns off the street?"

R39 obviously didn't watch HBO's "We Own This City."

If you think Baltimore City's cops are corrupt, just wait till you start digging around in the shitfest that is the Philly police department.

R46 is a typical liberal idiot.

R47 is your typical, reactionary Christo-fascist, replete with faux patriotism and faux religious piety.

What was the motive of the shooter?

I’m staying in my house as much as possible. This country isn’t safe. Guns were a mistake.

What police unit has any Democrat ever dismantled?

Waiting on Ted Cruz to tell us the problem is streets need a single point of entry.

Philly white are all rude, uneducated boors. And the blacks are angry all the time.

The place is a true pit. Just do not go there.

@ R51

I've been saying that for years, R52.

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Police are useless when it comes to gun violence. They go after innocent people more than the real criminals.

I have no sympathy for these sheep who walk around unarmed.

R57

Take your gun and shove it up your ass.

People need to start wearing bullet proof vests...seriously.

A fashion line of bullet protection clothing is an idea....

R53, that's your example? Jesus Christ, you wingnuts are idiots.

The NYPD Anti-Crime Unit, formerly the Plainclothes Unit, has undergone repeated "rebrandings" because they have this really bad habit of murdering unarmed people. It used to be called the Street Crimes Unit until they murdered Amadou Diallo. They never really get disbanded, though, the officers just get shuffled around. And the police budget keeps going up.

OF COURSE you'd choose this as an example of of Dems "disbanding" police--a unit that has been notorious for decades for police abuse, the subject of multiple federal investigations and lawsuits, and a total failure in terms of costs vs. "crime prevention."

Are you suggesting the police should not go after illegal guns, R61?

I've lived in extremely gun accessible places nearly all my life. 10 year olds got their first .22 and went deer hunting as a rite of passage and everyone had a shotgun or pistol to hand for home defense because there was no one coming in time to help you if someone meant you harm. What wasn't allowed to take root was lawlessness and drugs. We tolerated the drunks, but not much else. I don't know anyone who has been a victim of a gun violence.

Don't believe the PC shit you see on Law and Order: SVU--most police departments are filled with jackbooted Nazi thugs who want to bust heads of black and brown people. Does that mean that all police officers are bad? No, but there is a huge problem throughout this country. And the militarization of police from the surplus of leftover paramilitary gear from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars made the problem exponentially worse.

The obvious answer is to teach children to smear their classmates blood all over themselves and play dead while gumen freely walk our schools and streets with their God given AR-15s.

After Uvalde, how can anyone say the police are the solution to this problem? Police SUCK! They arrested parents of the victims.

What illegal guns were they going after when they murdered Diallo or Eric Garner, R62?

The answer, of course, is none. They had a return rate of something like 0.01% of guns seized per illegal stop and frisk.

^Oh, sorry, how unfair of me. 780 guns seized in 2011 after 685,724 stops. So a gun was seized in 0.1% of stops.

Meanwhile, they had a better rate of return in the year after the Street Crimes Unit was "disbanded." In 2003, 604 guns were seized after 160,851 stops--0.3%

R29 Eliminating the ability to legally purchase rapid fire weapons with high capacity magazines would cut down on the number of people killed or hurt in mass shootings, perhaps also the number of such incidents themselves. Raising the age to purchase legitimate hunting weapons to 21 - or better yet, 25 - would eliminate many young shooters.

[quote]is your typical, reactionary Christo-fascist, replete with faux patriotism and faux religious piety.

A typical liberal stereotype. Enjoy the nationwide Republican takeover, idiot/r48.

R69, actually prosecuting people would help. The DA is a Socialist scumbag who said that prosecuting people for illegal weapons wouldn’t do a thing to curb gun violence.

R63 none of your little trip down memory lane is comparable to easily obtainable AR-15s and similar high capacity semi-automatic weapons flooding the market.

Oh, and "lawlessness and drugs" was WORSE 30+ years ago. Mass shootings have become deadlier while other violent crimes have gone down or held steady.

We pay for Republicans to kill schoolchildren and install fascist PREZIDENT.

Just hours before this shooting.

Fucking idiot.

Philly’s DA: DumbAss.

[quote]After Uvalde, how can anyone say the police are the solution to this problem? Police SUCK! They arrested parents of the victims.

Philly is not Uvalde, idiot.

[quote]Don't believe the PC shit you see on Law and Order: SVU--most police departments are filled with jackbooted Nazi thugs who want to bust heads of black and brown people.

No community commits more crime than blacks. They’re targeted because they’re the criminals. They commit the majority of murder in Philly and are only 13% of the population. They also hate gays, Asians, and Jews with a passion, so spare us.

[quote]Police are useless when it comes to gun violence. They go after innocent people more than the real criminals.

0/10

R71 That sucks, but is not relevant to mass shootings in which the killer dies too. In this case, it is unlikely that they will even catch the shooters.

R78

Racist asshole. I’d FF you but I’m out.

The neighborhood has gone downhill

R72 I still live in an extremely gun friendly locale. My statements stand.

There are at least 15 cities with higher homicide rates than Philadelphia. Most of them do not have "socialist DAs." Murder rates have gone up at higher rates in some areas with old school "tough on crime" DAs or mayors than ones with comparatively progressive ones.

[quotes]On the other hand, tough-on-crime DAs get to play by a different script. Ganeva highlights Michael Hestrin, the DA of Riverside, who “raked in $149,300 from law enforcement groups during his 2014 campaign and thousands more during his reelection in 2018.” She points out, “Yet despite his commitment to aggressive prosecutions, the crime rate in Riverside is higher than in 83.9 percent of US cities.” “In the last 5 years Riverside has seen rise of violent crime and decline of property crime,” according to the City-Data crime index. Yet, “When tragedy strikes under Hestrin’s watch, no media outlets blame his policies—a perfect illustration of status quo bias.”

Every American should just shoot every American.

[quote]Let me introduce you to my good friends Manchin, Sinema and the non-talking veto. You were either yesterday or you're not a "leftie". We're up to our balls in gun violence because of the Republicans.

Gee, I know. We have a President, one of the most powerful people on the planet, who's a Democrat. How could he stand up to Kyrsten Sinema, though? She has so much more power than the POTUS. Yes, this is sarcasm. You don't think a powerful POTUS could bring pressure to bear against both Sinema and Manchin? I would see to it that they get zero support from the party until they fall in line, I would threaten them in various political ways. Biden is probably glad they're there, then he has an excuse for not doing anything while talking a good game.

"They commit the majority of murder in Philly and are only 13% of the population."

Blacks compose 40% of the population of Philadelphia.

Your statistics suck and are highly inaccurate so one doesn't have to wander whether or not the rest of your statement is pure bullshit as well.

I hear you R86..

“ A shooting near a Tennessee nightclub early Sunday led to three deaths and 14 people suffering gunshot wounds and other injuries, police said.

Fourteen people were hit by gunfire and three were hit by vehicles while trying to flee the scene, Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy said during a press conference. Two people died from gunshot wounds and one person died after being hit by a vehicle, Murphy said. Sixteen of the victims were adults and one was a juvenile and several remained in critical condition, she said.”

Does anybody doubt they could generally describe the perps of Tennessee and Philly ?

R86 I agree Biden and the Dems can do more, but we cannot let the GOP off the hook here. The entire party has devolved into an extremist death cult and we, the Dems, and our press desperately need to stop pretending that anything coming from them is in good faith or just the "opposing side" in a rational debate.

Don't forget the OTHER shootings this weekend in Phoenix, Mesa, Chatanooga, Lexington, and Summerton with 11 more dead and dozens more shot! And the weekend is not over yet!

What would LBJ do?

Daily CIA Military Intel operatias!

Either that or it did not occur at al, except on television!

Don't give up your guns people because if you do it's all over, prepare to live in Shanghai USA!

Flame me all you'd like but I dont go anywhere there might be a large gathering of blacks. Havent for years. Over and over again we hear stories on the news about "4 shot at 6 year olds birthday party" or "10 shot at graduation party" etc,etc. Every year a huge carnival sets up at a local mall near me,and for the last decade every goddamn year theres shootings and fights and chaos.The beach opening every year used to be a great time. Do a bar crawl,hang out ,meet people ,eat some good food. No more. Now its fights and shooting and assaults. No,it isnt white people either. I just stay away from them.That being said ,I do not judge all by the actions of a few,and I feel terrible for the hard working decent black folks who are just as much a victim of these fucking thugs as the rest of the country.

R93 LBJ had an opposition party that wasn't insane, so he was able to secure enough bipartisan support to overcome the huge opposition bloc within his own party. And the Dems lost majority white support ever since.

It's really not comparable to the situation today, especially since that very Act is one major reason the GOP has become the disgusting hatefest it is today.

LBJ was said to be horse-hung!

12 long thick uncut inches, stinky with cheese!

Verificatia?

Prolly asian students.

Why aren't Maria Butina and friends, and the fact that Russian money was flowing to the NRA getting no play with the media?

Fox News won't hear of it!

LBJ also had HUGE Democratic majorities in Congress so it's not a fair comparison. We have two recalcitrant Senators and a slim majority in the House. Nice try though with your Biden bashing.

Nigeria shows them to not be so merciful.

Gunmen opened fire on worshippers and detonated explosives at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria on Sunday, leaving dozens feared dead, state lawmakers said.

The attackers targeted the St. Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state just as the worshippers gathered on Pentecost Sunday, legislator Ogunmolasuyi Oluwole said. Among the dead were many children, he said.

The presiding priest was abducted as well, said Adelegbe Timileyin, who represents the Owo area in Nigeria’s lower legislative chamber.

“Our hearts are heavy,” Ondo Governor Rotimi Akeredolu tweeted Sunday. “Our peace and tranquility have been attacked by the enemies of the people.”

Authorities did not immediately release an official death toll. Timileyin said at least 50 people had been killed, though others put the figure higher. Videos appearing to be from the scene of the attack showed church worshippers lying in pools of blood while people around them wailed.

[quote] There are at least 15 cities with higher homicide rates than Philadelphia. Most of them do not have "socialist DAs." Murder rates have gone up at higher rates in some areas with old school "tough on crime" DAs or mayors than ones with comparatively progressive ones.

You’re such an idiot. They’re all led by Democrats. Progressive shitholes have crime through the roof.

City with the highest homicide rate:St Louis, MO. The mayor, Tishaura Jones. She’s a Progressive. “ Case closed.

[quote] Jimmy Tobias of The Nation described Jones as a "champion of Black Lives Matter," writing in 2017 that "if Jones's [2017 mayoral] campaign prevails… the Black Lives Matter movement will clearly, finally, have an unequivocal ally at City Hall."[53] The Associated Press labeled her as "outspoken in her criticism of the criminal justice system's 'arrest and incarcerate' model".[110] She has stated her support for no-judgment drug disposal sites, the abolition of cash bail, focused deterrence, and sobering centers.[111] Experts in criminology have lauded various aspects of the criminal justice agenda put forward in her 2021 campaign, noting that she "has a strong focus on decarceration and decriminalization of minor offenses".[111]

[quote]On February 2, 2009, while in the Missouri House of Representatives, Jones introduced a bill that would curtail state intervention into the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. The bill was not put up for a vote.[112]

[quote]In her 2017 letter to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published in The St. Louis American, Jones wrote that, if elected mayor, "I will look at every issue through a racial equity lens. I will ask if every decision we make helps those who have been disenfranchised, red-lined and flat-out ignored for way too long. I will look through each and every program in city government and make the changes necessary to ensure that government is working for those people."[63]

St. Louis, MO (69.4)

Baltimore, MD (51.1)

New Orleans, LA (40.6)

Detroit, MI (39.7)

Cleveland, OH (33.7)

Las Vegas, NV (31.4)

Kansas City, MO (31.2)

Memphis, TN (27.1)

Newark, NJ (25.6)

Chicago, IL (24)

Cincinnati, OH (23.8)

Philadelphia, PA (20.2)

Every city listed with murder rates through the roof are led by bleeding heart liberals. They can’t govern. And guess which group is committing the murders…

I can’t speak for other cities but Krasner and his office are terrible at prosecuting gun offenses. Krasner never takes the blame though, he deflects it to the police and the judges (who, admittedly, are also a big problem. However, Philadelphia cannot seem to produce viable alternative candidates to the democrat machine and add apathetic voters and it’s how Krasner is still in office.

So?

R104 demonstrating the status quo bias beautifully. St. Louis' high murder rate long predates her election. The crime rate in St. Louis held steady after her election. And then just like everywhere else, there was a spike after Covid hit.

And how did cities with Republican mayors do? Same--violent crime rates spiked with Covid.

"St. Louis' high murder rate long predates her election."

St. Louis high murder rate (and high crime rate, in general) goes back to the 1950's and 1960's, which partially explains why the city's population has shrunk by 2/3 since 1950 (850K in 1950 vs. <300K today). St. Louis never had riots like Newark or Detroit, but it's decay and abandonment has been far worse than anything a riot could produce, including the Watts riots in L.A.

If you ride to the top of the Gateway Arch, and look north from the western viewing platform, you will see vast areas of empty land. One of those empty spaces is the former site of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing project, vacant since the last building was blown up in 1976. (Its now an urban forest and dumping ground). Site development and construction of PI began in 1953, so it existed for 24 years. The site has sat vacant for 46 years, almost twice as long as its life.

The Texas Republican Trump ass kisser Moe Brooks stated "we just have to get use to it." Republicans are more concerned about offending the gun lobbyists and the blood money they receive for their votes. They have no conscience weighing the life of a child against the money received, money and greed always wins.

Seriously considering emigrating from this violent, corrupt country.

This wouldn’t happen on my watch!

I just read 14 shot, 1 women injured by flying glass and 3 confirmed dead.

Victims range in age from 17 - 69.

[QUOTE] 12 long thick uncut inches, stinky with cheese!

Gross.

Killadelphia . This was gang related . They fire indiscriminately into crowd not caring fuck all who they hurt or kill.

r105, is Uvalde, TX run by the Democrats? What about Littleton, Colorado? What about Parkland, FL?

Oh, and what was the race of these shooters?

The mass incarceration of the 1990s led to decreased crime. With fewer people in prison there will be more crime.I’m not saying it’s right but that’s the reality. What Repubs will bring to the cities is more people in prison which will inevitably bring crime down. There really is no other solution that I see.

A police statement revealed the dead were 34-year-old Gregory Jackson, 27-year-old Alexis Quinn and Kristopher Minners, who was 22.

A police statement revealed the dead were 34-year-old Gregory Jackson, 27-year-old Alexis Quinn and Kristopher Minners, who was 22.

𝑰𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 '𝒂 𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏' 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒂𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒃𝒚 𝒈𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆.

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I hope they passed their background checks

R2 ditto Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, San Francisco . . .

r115 = fish.

FISH BE GONE!!!

Who's the shooter? or shooters, any arrests? All reports seem to focus on gun and mass shooting, no mention on who did it

Here r122.

[quote]Every city listed with murder rates through the roof are led by bleeding heart liberals. They can’t govern. And guess which group is committing the murders.

Reminds me of this quote from the musical EVITA: "Why try to govern a country when you can become a saint?"

[quote]No community commits more crime than blacks. They’re targeted because they’re the criminals. They commit the majority of murder in Philly and are only 13% of the population. They also hate gays, Asians, and Jews with a passion, so spare us.

Remember that urban legend that was going around in the '80s/'90s regarding a group of black friends who entered a convenience store. The Asian clerk immediately became suspicious of them and kept an eye on them the whole time. Then a group of white friends enter and the Asian clerk is relieved. The black group pays for their things and departs. Meanwhile, the Asian clerk turns to the white group and says, "I'm so glad you guys came!" Just then, one of the white guys pulls out a gun and they rob the place.

The moral of the story was supposed to be "Don't profile black people," but it's hard not to when they are more likely to rob/murder than any other group in the U.S.

Thank heaven we have 20,000 federal, state, and local gun control laws, rules, and regulations on the books, or somebody might get hurt

Where are all the Democratic politicians with their wailing and gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands, like after Uvalde and Buffalo?

[...]

Rather well defined criminal hotzones messing it up for everybody.

Juneteenth falls on a Sunday, I fear that Saturday night before will be a nationwide blood bath, there were many incidents last year and shooting are way up from last year. Leaders need to start now pleading with people to stay safe.

^ do you mean "pleading with BLACK people to stay safe"?

When two people argue, too many times a handgun is pulled out and fired....instead of just having a good fistfight...or just walk away. Many innocent people who are nearby, or in a crowded area, just end up injured or killed. God help us if we're near any fight, or in traffic when someone cuts another car off...or if by mistake, you bump into the wrong person. Angry and volatile America...

Love all the finger pointing in this thread. Well-intentioned, I guess, but also kinda naive. Shootings like the one in Philly are more common than the orchestrated mass shooting of Uvalde & Buffalo & are typically perpetuated with guns that are acquired illegally, having absolutely record. Unfortunately most of those victims this past weekend alone were killed/injured by such firearms. No laws passed or depth of background checking will make a dent in that statictic.

The people who are upset and posting about this must not be Americans.

Anyone who thinks the punk ass bitches who were involved in this shooting are going to start playing nice when more gun laws are enacted has their head completely up their ass.

We, as a nation, can and must do a better job to prevent lone wolves like the guys in Buffalo and Texas. But these little dickheads offing people because they feel they've been "disrespected" on Facebook or Instagram are an entirely different animal.

𝑫𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆-𝒂𝒏𝒅-𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒇 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚, 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒈𝒖𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍 𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒈𝒖𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒆,” 𝑩𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑱𝒖𝒍𝒚 1985. “𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒎 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒍, 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒖𝒏𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒔, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒈𝒖𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍.”

(Whichever way the wind is blowing)

Why post something from 37 years ago. Do you think times haven't changed since fucking 1985.

R136's argument is the same as "Lincoln freed the slaves, therefore black people should vote for the Republican Party". Situations and circumstances change over time.

Nice try again with your Biden bashing, Svetlana. Go drink your daily ration of vodka now.

Philly’s dope if a mayor is in Reno. lol

DA Krasner just put out a statement saying that he can’t do anything about this, that it’s a national problem. lmao. You can’t make this shit up. He also said that prosecuting those with illegal firearms isn’t worth it; it won’t lower shootings.

R127 they are too busy decrying the fact that Black voters in Georgia can't accept water while in line to vote or have to wait in line longer than those in white districts

Blacks and their revenge. They ruin everything.

Krasner’s response:

The terrible crimes last night on South Street tell our Pennsylvania legislators it’s time for real action. Boycott NRA lobbyists, boycott NRA donations, and bring real common sense gun regulation to Pennsylvania. Now.

Krasner is an idiot, and is rightfully getting ripped to shreds on Twitter.

A Wisconsin man is facing six counts of felony murder for allegedly killing six people during a botched robbery at a Milwaukee duplex in January.

Travis Lamar Birkley, 34, was arraigned on the charges Sunday and is being held on a $1 million bail.

The six victims were found at a home in north Milwaukee on Jan. 23, though investigators believe that they were killed three days earlier.

Police previously identified the deceased as Charles Hardy, 42; Caleb Jordan, 23; Javoni Liddell, 31; Donta “Michael” Williams, 44; Michelle Williams, 49; and 43-year-old Donald Smith.

A confidential witness told investigators that Birkley admitted to killing all six victims during a “robbery gone bad” with his cousin, according to a complaint obtained by Fox 6 Milwaukee.

A witness also told police that they saw Birkley with cash, guns, and drugs after the murders that belonged to a victim, according to the complaint.

Two people have been arrested in connection with a bloody mass shooting that left three dead and at least 11 injured in Philadelphia over the weekend, a report said Monday.

𝑹𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒘𝒏 𝑽𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏 was busted at around 8 p.m. and charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault in connection with Saturday night’s mayhem, according to Fox 29.

𝑸𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒓 was also charged with aggravated assault and assault on law enforcement officers while recovering in the hospital after being shot by police.

Authorities believe the first shot was fired by 34-year-old Gregory Jackson and critically wounded another man. The second gunman managed to return fire, and the two exchanged 17 rounds in a hail of gunfire.

Jackson was struck and killed in the melee.

𝐵𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝐽𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑢𝑛𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓-𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒.

Is this a black neighborhood? they have the security camera footage in the news clip, it looks the crowd was all black.

Black black black black black black

South Streets straddles the Society Hill and Queen Village neighborhoods, R137, both very nice, heavily residential areas. In the past few years, South Street has become a gathering point (and flash point) for young blacks. Nothing wrong with that, until they start brandishing their guns at the slightest provocation. i.e. "he/she/it disrespected me" when the guns come out blazing, or an on-line feud escalates to attempted murder.

Our local newspaper today had the NRA payouts to Pennsylvania lawmakers, both state and federal. Just about every member of Congress is a puppet for the NRA. The Republicans are the worse when it comes to equating lives of their constituents versus receiving blood money from the NRA for their votes..money always wins.

JFC r123. Like animals in the wild.

Notice the newscasts never mention the race, and well all know it's blacks. But where is Black Lives Matter? Oh, no white person involved, so not their concern. And they call us racists.

BLM is over as a movement and an org.

(153) Wonderful news, but the report that the leader bought a several million dollar mansion was not covered by any newscast.

[quote]Is this a black neighborhood?

No. It’s a diverse area, close to the Gayborhood. The city is a shithole and it’s thanks to two groups: blacks snd dopey white liberals.

^You must be thrilled that conservatives will once again be on the side of the mass murderers and their bloodlust to supply high powered weapons designed to kill on the battlefield to massacre in class rooms, churches, grocery stores and streets.

amateurs!

What name are Qaadir, Nahjee, Rashaan and Quran? Black Muslims?

Hopefully they were all tranny hookers.

Two were firing into the crowd. Just like that. What is going on here?

Someone probably "disrespected" them. Yeah ,the black communities problems are all because of what some white person MIGHT be thinking about them.Meanwhile,the death count of black on black murders grows by leaps and bounds.

𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡

The suspect is described as a male in his late teens. He was seen wearing a COVID-style mask and a black hooded shirt with distinctive markings. Video shows him walking into a convenience store and standing near 3rd Street about 20 minutes before the gunfire began. Police say he was armed with a .40 caliber handgun.

Two people were killed, along with an alleged gunman, in the mass shooting and 11 others were wounded by gunfire and another victim was hurt by shattered glass.

Two suspects have already been taken into custody — 34-year-old Rashaan Vereen and 18-year-old Quran Garner.

Investigators confirmed to Eyewitness News that a fight between three men was the start of trouble.

The District Attorney’s Office says a man identified as Greg Jackson in video obtained by Eyewitness News shoots at a man identified as Micah Townes. Townes then fired back at Jackson. Jackson is then pronounced dead at the scene.

Both men were licensed to carry.

“He carries to protect himself. I don’t blame him. You see what happened?” said Donnell, Townes’ next-door neighbor.

Donnell saw the 23-year-old college student as he was leaving to head out that night to celebrate his birthday.

“I told him be careful out tonight. He called me Unc. He said ‘Unc, I’ll have a good time’ and when I didn’t see him out here in the morning — because we’re usually out here in the morning relaxing and having a good time in the morning — I knew it was him,” he said.

Now, he’s praying for his friend and an end to the violence.

“I don’t believe in the City of Brotherly Love because they’re out here killing each other every single day,” Donnell said.

Police say they saw Garner firing down from 3rd and American Streets in the direction of South Street. A police officer engaged Garner, fired upon Garner and wounded him in the hand.

The one suspect arrested yesterday was from Drexel Hill, Delaware County.

You can't get more middle class than Drexel Hill.

So much for disadvantaged youth excuse.

So, It's Not Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

I will personally see to it that the police are held accountable for this!

There was a shooting at a machine plant in Smithsburg Maryland yesterday, 3 dead. The name of victims has been released but nothing on the shooter.

The bleeding hearts will continue to make excuses for these animals.

Blacks especially the male species all have an extra gene in their physical composition, it's called the criminal gene.

The Smithsburg shooter

There's a pattern, R169. Here are the mass shooters of 2021.

The irony is that the “City of Brotherly Love” is full of bruthas shooting each other,

A teenager died and another was hospitalized with a wound to the head following what is believed to have been a drive-by shooting in the Summerdale neighborhood of lower Northeast Philadelphia Friday afternoon, police said.

The shooting happened around 4 p.m. on the 800 block of Bridge Street. The boy, identified by his family as Robert "Bobby" Yocum, was 14 and was pronounced dead at an area hospital, police said. A 15-year-old girl was alert and talking despite the gunshot to the head, Philadelphia Police Department Inspector D.F. Pace said.

The shooting happened in a residential neighborhood about two blocks away from Sammuel Fels High School. Police said later Friday that someone opened fire from a passing car on a group of young people standing on Bridge Street.

A motive for the shooting was not known Friday night.

A tally by the city controller's office shows that in 2022, at least 112 minors had been shot, 18 fatally, as of June 9.

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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A man trying to buy a car from a woman was gunned down in Philadelphia while sitting in the front seat. His family now wants answers.

Twenty-five-year-old Bryan Drummond's mother said her son was trying to get on a better path in life.

"He wasn't a menace to society, and at this point, when I learned of his murder, he was trying to get his life on board," said Faith Rawl.

Boy,the whole "he was turning his life around" seems to apply to every black guy killed . I feel for the good citizens stuck in a crime ridden community ,they are as much victims as anyone else. I dont know what the answer is ,but money doesnt seem to be a cure all. How many billions,nay trillions.has been pumped into black communities with shit results ? For 60 years no less. We just had a promising young black man who was shot 4 hours after graduating high school . He went to pick up friends at a party. He had a scholarship for college and a bright future and now he's dead because he was being a friend. His aunt said his parents were very strict with him because they feared the very outcome he had. I say to the black community to quit worrying about stupid shit like a statue or what some asshole did 150 years ago and sweep around your own damn doorstep. Its a damn genocide of young black men yet its fucking crickets from the "leaders" .

This just happened in Ohio

In today's mass shooting news...

The US needs to buy an island and put these clowns on it. Kinda like Australia.

r176 I kinda had Greenland in mind for that

2 dead and 2 injured.