#philadelphia fraternal order of police

[recentlyheardcom]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed and a second officer was wounded when they confronted people breaking into a car at Philadelphia International Airport, police said.Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford said veteran officers Richard Mendez and Raul Ortiz had just arrived at work around 11 p.m. Thursday when they heard breaking glass and saw several people breaking into a vehicle in the parking garage area. A confrontation ensued, and Mendez was shot multiple times. Ortiz was shot once in his arm, Stanford said, and one of the suspects was also wounded.Both officers were taken to hospitals, but Mendez was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later, Stanford said. Ortiz remained hospitalized Friday in stable condition. Both were assigned to the airport unit.The suspects fled the scene in an SUV that authorities later learned had been reported stolen in the city about a week ago. The vehicle was later seen at a hospital in Philadelphia dropping off 18-year-old Jesus Herman Madera Duran, who authorities say was believed to be involved in the confrontation with the officers. Duran was shot in the chest, abdomen and left arm and was pronounced dead around 11:30 p.m. Thursday.It wasn't clear if any other suspects were wounded in the shooting, authorities said, or how many of them had fired weapons.The shooting took place in the garage for the airport's Terminal D, which was temporarily closed during the initial investigation but later reopened. Stanford noted that the shooting came only a week after three officers were shot and wounded while responding to a call.“A numb, numb moment for us, to again encounter something like this,” he said.Mendez, 50, was a 22-year veteran of the force and was married with one daughter. His gun has not been located, Stanford said, and it's not yet known if anyone fired the weapon during the confrontation.Ortiz, 60, is a 20-year veteran of the department. He is married with three children.Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said law enforcement staff across multiple agencies were working to identify those responsible but said they lacked the ability to match crime scene ballistics to firearms through a database of gun sales, citing a lack of gun regulation. Pennsylvania state law prevents law enforcement and government agencies from having firearm registries.Joseph Regan, president of the Fraternal Order of Police State Lodge, mourned the officer's death and said members were praying for the wounded officer.“We lost a hero," Regan said.A reward of $148,500 was being offered for information leading to an arrest. Two local police unions — Philadelphia’s Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 and Lodge 27 in Delaware County — initially provided a combined $30,000 to fund the reward. They soon received donations from numerous police groups, businesses and residents in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.The reward would be in addition to a $20,000 reward that the city has offered for information that leads to an arrest and conviction.Speaking Friday at a news conference to announce the police unions' reward, Lodge 5 President John McNesby said the city's police force was “undermanned” and said more officers were needed in the streets. He also was critical of the district attorney's office, saying that if violent offenders are not prosecuted “that sends a message they can do what they want.”Calling the two officers “standouts” and noting their long service to the city, McNesby said the loss was a tough one for their colleagues and the department.“I saw more tears last night than I’ve ever seen in all my years here,” McNesby said.President Joe Biden, who was in Philadelphia on Friday, offered his condolences the families of the officers.“They put their lives on the line to protect this community,” he said.___Bruce Shipkowski reported from Toms River, New Jersey.

[headlamprey]

The woman in this article is my friend's mother. She was in a coma because of this, and the dogs that died were sleeping on her and are why she is still alive today. The officer responsible was in jail for a few months, but will be getting out on parole soon

Officer Gregory Campbell was the driver, but was ALLOWED to drive drunk after being at a bar with OTHER OFFICERS.

John McNesby, president of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 5 union, echoed Outlaw (Philadelphia Police Department Commissioner Danielle Outlaw) in sending prayers to the victims' family. He called it an "unfortunate incident".

My friend had to move back to Philly for her, she lost her dogs that were like babies to her, and obviously everyone is super traumatized to say the least.

My friends mothers house is destroyed, she's lucky to be alive, but lives were ruined here.

Of course, she hasn't seen a penny for any of this. Because it's the COPS. THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS??? SO DISGUSTING.

I'm personally going to find out how to contact as many of the pigs involved in this to make some noise. if you're from Philly or fucking hate cops always getting away with shit, I would advise you do the same. Once I have their information I will add on to this. Thoughts and prayers can get fucked, I gotta find ways to take action. At the very least, it's something people need to hear.

[biglisbonnews]

The Feminist History Behind the Ladies' Entrance THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE MARCH 11, 2023, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. In the 1970s, Shirley MacLaine strode up to the bar at Farrell’s Bar & Grill in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, and demanded a drink. The other patrons paused to stare—not so much because she was a famous actress, but because she was a woman. From 1933 up until that point, the bar had a strict policy against “unchaperoned ladies.”That’s not to say women weren’t allowed in the bar at all. “It used to be that they would serve women, but they had to sit in the back and the men had to order their drinks,” says cocktail historian Amanda Schuster. MacLaine, who was there with journalist Pete Hamill, would have none of it. “Shirley was like, ‘Hey, Pete, what do you want?’” Schuster says. “And everybody was just kind of watching her, slack-jawed. And from then on, they allowed women.”Bars may be societal watering holes, but they have rather famously not always been for everyone. Public spaces are often inherently political and, for much of history, there were strict social rules—or even laws—about where women were and were not welcome. Some bars also still carry physical markers of times when women weren’t allowed. In honor of Women’s History Month, Gastro Obscura would like to encourage you to visit the secretive rooms, side entrances, and formerly men-only bars where women can now drink freely. Snugs For much of the 19th century in the United Kingdom, the local pub was no place for a well-to-do lady. Yet Victorian women, even those in the middle and upper classes still found ways to frequent them. In order to keep women away from prying eyes—particularly if they happened to be somebody’s mistress—pubs installed small, often well-decorated private rooms known as snugs attached to the rest of the bar. Snugs weren’t just for women, of course. Plenty of people, from politicians holding clandestine meetings to local vicars, had reasons for wanting to drink a pint without an audience. For women, however, snugs offered a reprieve from social judgment and constraints. And while some female patrons visited a snug with a male suitor, others went just to have a moment of peace with other women.Pubs across the U.K. and Ireland may be very much co-ed affairs these days, but many of the historic ones have kept their old snugs. Today, it’s still possible to enjoy an ale in a space that once offered social refuge. Ladies' Entrances Across the pond in the U.S., patrons in bars from Madison, Wisconsin, to Philadelphia may notice the occasional “Ladies’ Entrance” signs hanging over side doors leading to backrooms. These were once the only ways for women to slide in with less public observation. Plenty of American men of the mid-1800s to early 1900s saw the local bar or saloon as the place to get away from their spouses. Leading up to Prohibition, “there was a proliferation of these gentlemen-only clubs,” Schuster says. Many of these establishments would be associated with a particular type of activity, be it cards or cigars. In other words, where, and with whom a woman could drink became more tightly controlled. It didn’t help that across much of the United States around the turn of the 20th century, moral panic still reigned. Unaccompanied women were liable to be seen as loose, and bars where genders fraternized freely became associated with a kind of societal decay.In some cases, women who broke the rules faced more than just social stigma. As Sascha Cohen writes in JSTOR Daily, police departments in Los Angeles, Portland, and Atlanta, among other cities, targeted, surveilled, and criminalized women who appeared in drinking establishments without a chaperone around the turn of the 20th century. In short, they prosecuted those who refused to play by the rules—to enter through the back door or sit where they were told to. Surprisingly Recent History So how did all this change?Prohibition shook up a lot of things in American drinking culture, including some of the gender segregation. After all, if bootleggers and their customers were already breaking the law, there wasn’t much point in worrying about respectability. But after World War II, a number of American bars stubbornly remained boys’ clubs. “In New York, you had these places that very famously did not let women in. They were well known for it,” Schuster says. In 1969, Betty Friedan stormed into a men-only lunch service at the Oak Room in New York's Plaza Hotel, flanked by more than a dozen angry feminists. “This is the only kind of discrimination that's considered moral—or, if you will, a joke,” she told Time magazine, which declared that the action “shook the very foundations of the fortress.”In 1970, a New York City ordinance forced bars to cease this form of gender-based discrimination. Barbara Shaum, a resident of the East Village, became the first woman to walk into McSorley’s Old Ale House, which had been strictly male-only since it opened in 1854. Even as late as 1982, a British bar called El Vino prohibited women from standing at the bar, supposedly as a form of “chivalry.” When two women journalists violated the rules, the owners barred them for life. It took a court case to overturn the decision.Being allowed to order a drink might seem like a small thing, but visibility matters, as does the right to move unimpeded through a space. It’s worth remembering the women who spoke up to make that happen. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/feminist-history-saloon-pub-ladies-entrance

[serpiconews]

BREAKING NEWS: A PHILADELPHIA POLICE COP / FOP UNION LEADER SON ARRESTED WITH LOADED STOLEN GUN. Yes that’s right folks hot off the presses what happens when a Philadelphia Police officer / FOP union leader like Roosevelt poplar son is stopped by police. On 1/17/2023 A Mazda which is registered to him to FOP Union Leader Roosevelt poplar was pulled over . Was stopped on a routine traffic violation in the 39th District area of north Philly. As officers approached the vehicle to conducted an investigation one officer immediately observed what he knew to be a handgun in plain sight in the vehicle. Philly Detectives later found that the handgun recovered by officer in the arrest was stolen out of Georgia.  The young black male driving the vehicle was ld as 18 year old Cordell Poplar son of a Philadelphia cop/ FOP union Leader Roosevelt Popular. The Philadelphia fraternal Order Of Police has given no statements to the media or comments about the incident. Officer Poplar could not be reached for comment. It has yet to be determine whether or not this stolen gun out of Georgia has been linked or involved in any shootings or homicides in Philadelphia or Georgia.  Also according to Police and Detectives the location in which FOP / Cop son was at is one of the 39th hot zone for the dumping of stolen vehicles. A lot of questions have to be asked in this case why was a police officers son carrying a loaded stolen handgun. Did he buy it off the street and for what purpose or is this cops son apart of something much bigger. But as we know he’s not the first Philadelphia cop or high ranking police official to have a family member put the spot light on them. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnsIkC4pbK0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[brandedcities]

Public Safety Enforcement Officers: Philly allowed to expand use of civilians in police department

A historic agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police and Philadelphia will allow the city to expand the use of civilians within the police department.

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[magdolenelives]

****TRIGGER/CONTENT WARNING! POLICE BRUTALITY, ASSAULT**** Thread here, article here. Additional info here, here, here, and here.

[auroraluciferi]

a normal country.

anyways, defund and dismantle the police.

[bryanharryrombough]

https://twitter.com/AttorneyRoss/status/1321984781652008961

[filosofablogger]

Welcome To 21st Century America

Welcome To 21st Century America

Take a look at this picture …

Touching, isn’t it?  Well, before you get all teary-eyed, you should know what really happened.  The boy was notwandering around Philadelphia during the protests — protests of the shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr. by Philadelphia police.  This young boy was, in fact, riding in a car driven by his mother, Rickia Young, when she was confronted by Philadelphia…

[memecucker]

The pandemic has taken a devastating toll on police departments across the country. COVID-19 is now killing more law enforcement officers than any other threat they face in the line of duty — 716 officers have died since March 2020, according to the Fraternal Order of Police.

Still, there is a reluctance among law enforcement to get vaccinated.

In Memphis and Louisville, just 47% of officers have been vaccinated, according to those police departments. In Philadelphia, just 13% of police department employees have provided proof of vaccination, the city said.

[phoenixonwheels]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-police-officers-leading-cause-death/

"The pandemic has taken a devastating toll on police departments across the country. COVID-19 is now killing more law enforcement officers than any other threat they face in the line of duty — 716 officers have died since March 2020, according to the Fraternal Order of Police.

"Still, there is a reluctance among law enforcement to get vaccinated.

"In Memphis and Louisville, just 47% of officers have been vaccinated, according to those police departments. In Philadelphia, just 13% of police department employees have provided proof of vaccination, the city said."

Cops are all like "you couldn't possibly have an orderly society with less cops" and then quit their jobs/die because they refuse to get a vaccine.

[yasbxxgie]

[...] reporters William Bender and David Gambacorta showed that the FOP’s power includes getting guilty cops back on the streets and the public payroll.

[96thdayofrage]

A Black woman who was pulled from her car and beaten by Philadelphia police during a protest last year is suing a police union for posting what she calls a misleading photo of her “terrified” toddler on social media, attorneys for the woman said.

The Fraternal Order of Police, the country’s largest police union, posted a Facebook photo of Rickia Young’s then 2-year-old son in a police officer’s arms last October claiming the child had been lost and wandering around aimlessly. However, police had actually taken the boy after officers smashed out Young’s car windows with the child inside, dragged Young from the vehicle and beat her, according to Young’s attorneys. She hadn’t broken any laws.

“I will never forget what those officers did to us that night,” Young said at a recent news conference. “For them to portray me as this type of mom who wouldn’t know or care where her child was while chaos was happening all around is very hurtful. All to promote a political message of fear of Black people and civil protesters." 

[alaturkanews]

Cops Pay Out MILLIONS For Bungled P.R. Stunt

Cops Pay Out MILLIONS For Bungled P.R. Stunt

The City of Philadelphia paid out a sum of $2 million over a public relations stunt gone wrong by the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: …