The Philadelphia Police Department has curbed 72 officers off their regular duties after it was discovered that they reportedly made racially charged threatening messages across social media. An investigation has been launched into the inflammatory posts that were revealed in a database that hosts thousands of offensive postings by current and former officers, the city’s police […]
If drug interdiction can be compared to a giant game of whack-a-mole, federal law enforcement officials delivered one mighty wallop this week when they raided a container ship at Philadelphia’s port and discovered a staggering amount of cocaine. Hidden inside seven shipping containers were 33,000 pounds (15,000 kilograms) of the illicit drug, one of the […]
Police departments in at least five states are investigating, and in some cases condemning, their officers’ social media feeds after the weekend publication of a database that appears to catalog thousands of bigoted or violent posts by active-duty and former cops. The posts were uncovered by a team of researchers who spent two years looking […]
The City of Philadelphia, which I love, was founded all the way back in 1682. That’s 337 years ago. And in 337 years, the city has never elected a woman as sheriff – until Tuesday – when Philadelphia not only elected a Black woman as sheriff – she’s a grassroots activist – a leader in […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police are investigating after a 5-year-old boy brought about two dozen vials of crack cocaine into a preschool at a Roman Catholic church. Police say the boy told a teacher’s aide at St. Cyprian Children’s Center that the person who handed him the bag told him to hide it. The Archdiocese […]
After making headlines for providing free haircuts for the homeless in Philadelphia, barber Brennon Jones wants to know why his good deed has now drawn the wrong type of attention. In a video uploaded to Twitter by Muslim activist StanceGrounded, the Haircuts 4 Homeless founder is seen being accosted by police officers. https://twitter.com/_SJPeace_/status/1117373413692198912 “Philadelphia Police […]
After making headlines for providing free haircuts for the homeless in Philadelphia, barber Brennon Jones wants to know why his good deed has now drawn the wrong type of attention. In a video uploaded to Twitter by Muslim activist StanceGrounded, the Haircuts 4 Homeless founder is seen being accosted by police officers. https://twitter.com/_SJPeace_/status/1117373413692198912 “Philadelphia Police […]
Some animal lovers have come to the aid of a Verizon employee after he was suspended by the company without pay for rescuing a cat using company equipment. PEOPLE reports that Maurice German was working in a Philadelphia neighborhood on March 16 when a resident asked him to help rescue a cat stuck on top of a telephone […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia real estate investor says a home he was scoping out came with an unadvertised surprise — a stairway booby-trapped with a swinging knife. Ekrem Uysaler says he and his team were looking at the home in January when one of his co-workers saw a small line on the home’s staircase. […]
Controversial singer R. Kelly has been symbolically banned from ever stopping by for a visit in the city of Philadelphia. On Thursday (January 31), the Philadelphia City Council unanimously passed a resolution to “mute” R Kelly, nme.com reported. The bill doesn’t officially forbid the R&B singer from physically visiting the city, it simply serves as “a public declaration” that “this […]
The Philadelphia Police Department is asking the public’s help in finding a missing 11-year-old girl. According to ABC6, Jamiah Buck was last seen on Sunday at about 8:30 p.m. in the 300 block of Cobbs Creek Parkway. Jamiah is described as 5’3, 205 pounds, light brown complexion, heavy build, brown eyes, and black curly hair. […]
A man wanted in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Georgia was arrested Thursday in Philadelphia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Mattay Muhammad is accused of entering a home through a living room window in August 2018 and raping the girl after threatening to kill her and her little brother, the Clayton County […]
