On Tuesday night, Philadelphia experienced a wave of looting in multiple neighborhoods across the city, with groups of mostly young people breaking into stores in Center City and North and Northeast Philadelphia. Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford said that the looters were not protesters and that they were “criminal opportunists” taking advantage of the situation, and the police are taking a “zero-tolerance” approach to the looting, with anyone found to be involved being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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Key takeaways: Cherelle Parker has been chosen as the Democratic mayoral nominee in Philadelphia. Parker ran on a platform of restoring order to the city,…
U.S. Marshals have captured 24-year-old Nasir Grant, one of two inmates who escaped from a Philadelphia prison earlier this week. Grant was taken into custody while dressed as a woman, while the other inmate, 18-year-old Ameen Hurst, remains at large. The Philadelphia Department of Prisons has launched an investigation into how the escape went unnoticed for nearly 19 hours.
A Temple University police officer was tragically killed in the line of duty Saturday night while responding to a robbery near the university's North Philadelphia campus. The officer was attempting to apprehend a suspect when he was shot and later pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital. This marks the first line-of-duty death in the history of the Temple University Police Department, and the university is providing counseling and support services to those affected.