Philly Residents Reportedly Taunt and Harass Officers During Active Cop Shooting
Vivek Saxena, BizPacReview, August 15, 2109
A crowd of what appeared to be local residents allegedly harassed, taunted, and threw objects at Philadelphia Police Department officers Wednesday evening as they reportedly worked to resolve a standoff with a dangerous, armed suspect who’d already shot six officers.
The evidence is twofold.
Video footage shared to Twitter late Wednesday evening by an unverified account shows a crowd of unruly, disrespectful locals harassing officers allegedly outside of the apartment building where Maurice Hill, a Philadelphia man with a lengthy history of crime, was holed up.
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Six officers were reportedly injured. What followed was an hours-long standoff during which locals harassed the officers, according to local journalist Alexandria Hoff.
“A major moment of disappointment this evening was watching a crowd of people taunt police officers, laughing and yelling at them in the midst of the gunfire,” she tweeted late Wednesday evening.
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As of Thursday morning, both the video seen up top and the tweets by Hoff had received zero mainstream media attention. However, Hoff’s tweets had attracted the anger of left-wing activists (some of them alleged journalists) who felt that her tweets were racist.
