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No charges will be filed in Germantown canvasser shooting, District Attorney’s Office says
The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | May 12, 2023 | Jesse Brunch

Posted on 05/14/2023 3:55:26 AM PDT by marktwain

Prosecutors will not charge a 22-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a 46-year-old in East Germantown on Monday afternoon while both were canvassing for a political group. Authorities say the shooting was in self-defense.

Jane Roh, a spokesperson for District Attorney Larry Krasner, said Friday that both their office and the Police Department were in agreement about what happened between two paid canvassers for the progressive group One PA.

“This is nonetheless a tragic loss of life,” Roh said. “We extend our deepest condolences to the loved ones of the decedent.”

Meanwhile, family members of the victim, Eddie Brokenbough, were distraught to learn the father of 10 had been shot, and doubted police accounts of the shooting.

Reports spread that Brokenbough, who was shot once in the armpit and rushed from the 2000 block of Church Lane to a nearby hospital, had pulled a gun on the 22-year-old canvasser, causing the younger man to shoot in what he told police was self-defense.

Both men knew each other, police said, and the shooting stemmed from an “argument,” possibly over an existing dispute.

One PA has said guns are not permitted in its offices or during canvassing, and it has temporarily suspended its canvassing efforts.

The group is an independent expenditure committee that can raise and spend money to boost candidates but is prohibited from directly coordinating with them. This year, the group knocked on doors to promote mayoral candidate Helen Gym and a slate of left-leaning City Council candidates.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: activists; defense; gunfight; pa
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Two leftist activists get in an argument, which leads to a gunfight. The activist who could legally carry a gun shot and killed the activist who was legally prohibited from owning a gun.
1 posted on 05/14/2023 3:55:26 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

A bit more info here...

https://6abc.com/philadelphia-shooting-church-lane-ogontz-man-shot/13224671/

Wonder what the real story is...


2 posted on 05/14/2023 4:02:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

3 posted on 05/14/2023 4:15:54 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trintarian. Deal with it!)
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To: marktwain

And the guy with 10, yes 10 kids is killed. Why can’t we restrain these ferals from sticking it anyone and everything? Guess it’s the animal mentality.


4 posted on 05/14/2023 4:18:50 AM PDT by TermLimits4All ("If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.")
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With this kind of case...and a Soros DA...you'd expect the shooter to be a Maoist and the dead guy to be a Trump supporter.
5 posted on 05/14/2023 4:33:37 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: marktwain

Shooting between two libs ... no charges filed.


6 posted on 05/14/2023 4:33:46 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
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Sounds like these so called canvasers were extorting money for a political campaign for the left. I mean who carries during a political canvasing event?

Both were thugs.

7 posted on 05/14/2023 4:34:07 AM PDT by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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And the guy with 10, yes 10 kids is killed. Why can’t we restrain these ferals from sticking it anyone and everything? Guess it’s the animal mentality.

Have to have some kids in reserve to make up for the ones that get dragged off by hyenas and lions.

8 posted on 05/14/2023 4:43:28 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.y )
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To: Candor7

Check out this link...

https://twitter.com/BigTrialBlog/status/1656304150043406337

Might explain a lot.


9 posted on 05/14/2023 4:44:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Candor7

It’s Philadelphia. I’m more surprised BOTH weren’t strapped.


10 posted on 05/14/2023 4:44:49 AM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: mewzilla

Ballot harvesting operations details are not going to see a discovery process in court records. Much like drug dealer turf wars, at $50 a ballot it’s ballot harvesting turf wars.


11 posted on 05/14/2023 4:49:39 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) We're all Women now.)
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To: marktwain

So now taxpayers will have to pay to house, feed and raise his 10 kids.

Oh! Wait....

He was a leftist thug and a random sperm donor so we were probably already paying their way.


12 posted on 05/14/2023 4:51:25 AM PDT by Iron Munro ( Michael Byrd: "Well, Somebody had to do it - Babbitt wasn't gonna' shoot herself!")
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To: marktwain

Yep
One Dem shoots and kills another Dem - no charges filed.

Reminds me of Dem stronghold inner cities...and ZERO CALLS FOR GUN CONTROL ARISE FROM THIS GUN VIOLENCE - go figure...


13 posted on 05/14/2023 5:00:55 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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If he is working for a progressive group, makes you wonder how many baby mammas were involved to produce 10 children. And how many abortions limited the result to 10.


14 posted on 05/14/2023 5:21:43 AM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: marktwain

Sounds like they belonged to the “Liberal Canvassers With Guns” organization.


15 posted on 05/14/2023 5:25:49 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Since O'Bama was ruling the roost, America has gone from melting pot to septic tank of the world.)
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To: TermLimits4All

Spay and neuter your liberals!


16 posted on 05/14/2023 5:26:55 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Since O'Bama was ruling the roost, America has gone from melting pot to septic tank of the world.)
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To: marktwain

I would guess that they get paid for each new voter registered and each mail in ballot completed.

This was a “turf war” between the two over who could canvass that neighborhood.


17 posted on 05/14/2023 5:29:12 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: marktwain
the group they were canvassing for has nothing to do with the Boarder Lines Matter movement.
18 posted on 05/14/2023 5:32:17 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: marktwain

When the Left thinks the Right has been routed, this is how they treat one another.


19 posted on 05/14/2023 5:33:10 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Shooter not identified? Not charged? Police and media collude on covering up and excusing Left on Left violence.

Maybe it was a fair shoot. We just have to take their word for it. We’ll never know.


20 posted on 05/14/2023 5:39:07 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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