Posted on 07/06/2018 1:44:19 AM PDT by BBell
Philadelphia police abruptly raided and destroyed the “Occupy ICE” encampment set up by protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Center City on Thursday afternoon.
“Stay calm! Stay calm!” a protester shouted as police used bicycles to push through the encampment and knock down the protesters’ tents and canopies, which had been set up in the area since Monday evening as part of a national movement calling for the abolition of ICE. Local demonstrators also have called for the closure of the federal detention center in Berks County and an end to local collaboration with federal immigration officials.
The raid occurred about 1 p.m. Thursday, roughly 10 minutes after police spoke with protesters at the front of the camp on Eighth Street and asked them to move their water coolers and other supplies off the sidewalk. The protesters began to comply, and moments later, police then asked them to also clear a space in front of the federal building. While activist Aine Fox, a representative with the Up Against the Law Legal Collective, was attempting to clarify that request with police, other officers entered the camp through the back and began pushing through the area with bicycles.
A police spokesperson, Capt. Sekou Kinebrew, later said in an interview that protesters were given “numerous warnings” and opportunities to clear the affected areas before police took action to remove the structures because the encampment had been blocking “ingress and egress” to the building, which contains offices other than ICE. Some structures had been blocking a door, Kinebrew said, while others were blocking one of the bays to the building.
He declined to respond to allegations that police moved on the camp while some protesters were discussing how to respond, saying simply: “I do know warnings were given.”
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
The video will bring a tear of joy to your eyes!
JESSICA GRIFFIN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Police block the space after they dismantled a protester camp at Eighth and Cherry Streets, outside the ICE office.
JESSICA GRIFFIN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Philadelphia police arrest protesters outside the ICE office at Eighth and Cherry Streets.
Lots of cows and Nancy Boys were present.
They could have just used the Hippie Drill..
He's definitely compensating for something.
They weren’t going to leave the food behind. Had to return it to mommie’s and daddy’s pantry.
You just look at the kid and wonder where his job-career will be in ten years....pizza delivery guy? Airport janitor? Road-line painter?
I just don’t see how you can walk around with this bundled-up negative energy for years and years. I couldn’t hire someone like this....even for bus-driver work, or for soda-delivery driver.
Yep. Future active shooter alert.
The guy looks and acts like a terrorist. He has macro aggressed me. Where’s my comfort animal?
Bucked up beta male all aquiver with faux-righteous anger right up until the fat chick snatches his flowery little parasol away from him, then he starts with the anxiety breathing exercises. He might snap someday, but it’ll be himself that he harms.
“While activist Aine Fox, a representative with the Up Against the Law Legal Collective, was attempting to clarify that request with police”
Yeah, that usually works...
He could be a school shooter or a work place violence candidate.
Pit bull with a Kevlar vest?
Democrat congresscritter.
Delay tactics sometimes do...
Yep..stay calm. Stay calm.
You smelly hunks of garbage.
Hippytrash.
Now you goin to jail.
Stay calm
Take a shower you stink.
What’s in your butt?
This is actually quite surprising, since the moronic Mayor Kenney was filmed singing and doing a happy dance after a libtard judge ruled that the feds couldn’t withhold funds from Philthadelphia because of their sanctuary city policy.
(Sigh). Frank Rizzo would have handled it differently. That screechy punk needs a mahogany shampoo.
His chickens came home to roost? It probably surprised the hippies too. They thought they had a solid ally in the mayors office.
Philly mayors have been known to bomb their own troubles away. Bombs dropped by aircraft and tens of thousands of bullets, followed by firestorming entire neighborhoods.
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