It’s tough to be a cop in Philadelphia.
Not
only must cops face gun-wielding criminals, they also face city leadership who
rush to judgment against them.
A.
Benjamin Mannes at Broad + Liberty offers a piece and video that appears
to vindicate a police officer accused of using a racial slur when confronting a
suspect with a gun.
Last
Friday, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw tweeted about “concerning behavior”
regarding an arrest in which police officers surrounded a vehicle in a standoff
with a suspect who was ultimately arrested for firearms and narcotics charges.
Outlaw’s tweet was in response to a viral video on an anti-police Instagram
page on which the person recording the video stated an officer used racial
slurs when demanding the suspect comply with their orders.
In
response to the viral video, Outlaw placed the officer on desk duty pending an
internal affairs investigation, stating to the Inquirer that he was “allegedly
caught on video twice saying a racial slur during an attempted arrest of a
person who had a gun.”
(Viewer
notice: the videos contain strong language).
Within
the next 24 hours, tweets from throughout Philadelphia’s elected political
class seemingly condemned the officer’s behavior. However, despite Outlaw
publicly placing the officer under investigation and stating her concern over
the behavior in the video, sources within the Philadelphia Police Department
leaked body-worn camera footage to Broad+Liberty as well as
journalist Ralph Cipriano that clearly shows the officer never used a racial
slur in the encounter.
You
can read the rest of the piece and watch the videos via the below link:
Ben Mannes: City leaders condemn police officer over false accusation (broadandliberty.com)
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