Posted on 06/27/2011 12:12:08 PM PDT by NoLibZone
DARBY BOROUGH The borough is back under a state of emergency today after being rocked by at least five violent incidents in a 72-hour period.
We are taking the borough back, Mayor Helen Thomas said during a Friday-night press conference to declare the state of emergency. We want everyone to understand that this has to stop, and its going to stop tonight.
Officials put the state of emergency declaration into effect at 8 p.m. Friday. Under the declaration, an 8 p.m.-6 a.m. curfew is in effect for adults and juveniles throughout the borough, and anyone discovered to be out during that time frame is subject to immediate stop-and-frisk procedures.
Police will concentrate primarily on groups of three or more individuals who are loitering or causing a disturbance.
The curfew will remain in effect for 10 days, after which, Thomas said, officials will re-evaluate the measure and decide whether to continue it.
(The criminals) are tearing the borough up, she said. There are too many guns and too many drugs. Tonight, the cells are going to be full.
The declaration was prompted by five violent incidents in the 72 hours preceding Fridays announcement. Those incidents included a stolen-car chase Thursday afternoon that ended with police shooting the driver after a confrontation at Fifth and Pine streets.
In an unrelated event earlier that day, a 27-year-old man was shot four times during a robbery in the 500 block of Spruce Street.
Later Thursday night, police were called to the 600 block of Darby Terrace for a report of a man with a gun barricaded inside a home.
She should just call in an air strike and then apply for federal disaster dollars.
In fact, announce an all you can eat barbecue, wih pimps up and ho’s down, and get as many bangers as you can. Serve Russian food if it helps get the Russian mob in there as well. She should leak word about 1M kilos of black tar hidden in a sewer in the middle of Darby.
Then call it in:
“Expend all remaining ordnance on my POD. It’s been a lovely f’ing tenure as mayor. Darby out.”
Sadly 2012 will be a bust for the simple reason that too many folks in the leadership of both parties see the train wreck coming & are more interested in getting all the goodies for themselves that they can before they eject & get their money loved ones out of the way .
Can’t afford gold but am stocking up on canned goods & small arms ammo. This view of the leadership of the political parties comes from watching & listening to them for nearly 30 years .
Not on the MSM but on C-span your opinion might vary but thats your right ,at least for the time being.
I am recalling the movie “A Clockwork Orange”.
Good luck on that one.
It wasn’t a comprehensive list...hard to know when to stop.
I agree with you at least 2000% about schools. More, even!
Yup.
There was a time “back when” that Darby cops didn’t take cwap from anyone. Favorite practice was to take the smart ones over the line and cuff them to Philly parking meters.
They still don't albeit that's not necessarily in a good way.
Commonwealth government’s ballyhooed “local control” at its finest. /sarc
I’ve heard of such battles in the fire services and one time got caught up in one the EMS but usually the cops are more professional......sheesh.
they want the perception of extreme violence so they can declare zero dictator for life, they will do it...
they're mostly weaklings and milk toast....
I think that is grand.
Why would you bother with a stun gun when you can use the real thing?
Pennsylvania is a shall issue state and the city of Filthadelphia has to issue you a gun permit.
More good news. Governor Corbett signed the extended "Castle" bill today. Thugs and miscreant Amish yutes beware.
Gun owners have been illegally detained, threatened intimidated, berated, assaulted, placed under arrest, and had their firearms confiscated by.........the Philadelphia police.
"Lt. Raymond Evers, a spokesman for the city police, told FoxNews.com that gun owners who open carry, which is legal in the city, may be asked to lay on the ground until officers feel safe while they check permits. "Philadelphia, in certain areas, is very dangerous," he said. "There's a lot of gun violence." Several officers have been killed in the line of duty in the past three years, local authorities say. The warning comes after Mark Fiorino, a suburban Philadelphia IT worker, posted an audiotape to YouTube of his tense, 45-minute encounter with police in February over his exposed handgun. The video went viral and captured national attention. After Fiorino released the audiotape, he was charged with disorderly conduct and reckless endangerment. He now faces up to two years in prison.
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Audio tape of Philadelphia police acting like the Gestapo and making up the law as they go along:
SHOCKING AUDIO: Philadelphia Police violate rights of open carrier at gunpoint
You also have to remember that there is a huge, underground racial component to this harassment. The officer who cursed at, threatened, harassed, violated, and assaulted Mr. Fiorino was black - and he is still a Philadelphia police officer. In fact, the department defended his actions. The political establishment in Philadelphia knows the black gangs have guns, and obeying gun laws in the LAST thing on their mind. They fear whites defending themselves. I wish there were some other politically correct way to point that out, but there isn't.
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