The Shooting, the Beating, the Outcry: Another Week in Killadelphia

North Star Writers Group ^ | May 16, 2008 | Stephen Silver

[Invisigoth]

Saturday, May 3: A Philadelphia police officer, Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski, is shot and killed with a semiautomatic weapon while responding to reports of a bank robbery in the city’s Port Richmond section. Liczbinski is the second officer shot in the city this year, and the third in the last two years.

Monday, May 5: About a dozen Philadelphia police officers, less than 24 hours into the manhunt for the third and final suspect in the Liczbinski shooting, beat three suspects who had been fleeing the scene of an unrelated murder. The entire incident happens to be caught on tape by a news helicopter from the local Fox affiliate, WTXF, and that videotape makes the national news rounds.

A lot of people, in Philadelphia and elsewhere, are angry about those two events. But unfortunately, way too many people are angry about the first and not the second, or perhaps the second and not the first. Why not be angry about both?

Emotions are high. There’s a lot of anger, a lot of resentment. About 10 things have happened in regard to those events that have been grossly unfair. When you throw in one combustible ingredient after another – whether race, gun control policy, the treatment of police – the situation can only get messier.

[sinanju]

Just remember; as former Mayor Street proudly said: “The brothers are in charge!”

[oldironsides]

Police killers are elevated to a hero status in Philadelphia. Ask Mumia Abu Jamal supporters. He is famous and has some of the nitwit college crowd believing in his cause. The 3 bank robbers that killed the policeman 2 weeks ago were converts to Islam. That conversion happened while they were in prison. Religion of peace.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"He replied that he didn’t know, but did say that the majority had been committed with illegal guns."

As Barry Obama said, words mean something. When discussing people in this country illegally they are not undocumented workers. They are illegal aliens. When discussing crimes committed with firearms, the firearms are not illegal guns. They are illegally obtained firearms. People can be illegal, not inanimate objects. And this guy is a mayor of a large city. Dufus....

[Mark was here]

It sounds like this turd is unhappy not too many folks are upset the killers got arrested. I haven’t seen the video but it sounds like they did not come out with their hands up.

[B4Ranch]

I saw a portion of the video. It showed officer approaching a vehicle that was stopped on the street. Officer opened the back door pulled a man out and started kicking him while he was laying down on the street. He was not resisting in any way and the cops were not even attempting to place handcuffs on the man. They were viciously kicking the guy.

Here's two links

Philadelphia police

Philadelphia police beating