for BigTrial.net
In a city that's leading the nation in murders, and carjackings are through the roof, it's great to know that the citizens retain one good old-fashioned bedrock virtue -- identity politics.
Last night, we had a fresh example of this. Parents of a couple of carjacking victims -- both of whom had been shot and were in the emergency room at Temple University Hospital -- who wouldn't let their kids ID the perps who shot them by race.
As a consequence, the two suspects who matched the initial IDs given by the victims had to be released by the cops.
It started at approximately 9:59 p.m. last night in North Philadelphia, when police responded to a report of several gunshots and two people being shot.
A Temple University police officer was flagged down by a couple of black teenage girls driving a Nissan Altima. The two teenagers told the cop that at 1400 N. Broad Street, two black males armed with guns had just attempted to carjack them.
The two girls told the cop that they responded by pepper spraying the males, and the two suspects opened fire, striking the vehicle six times.
A 16-year old black female was hit once in the left leg; a 17 year-old black female was hit in the back of the neck. The girls drove off to 1500 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, where they flagged down the Temple University cop who transported them to the emergency room at Temple University Hospital.
Both victims were reported in stable condition.
The first suspect was originally identified as a black male, about 5-foot-10, wearing a black mask, and a hoodie with a flag that said "Freedom." The second suspect was another black male wearing a pink hoodie that said "Bape."
Highway cops, working with the assistance of a police helicopter, stopped a suspect that fit the initial description. He was seen tossing a firearm away in the vicinity of 1900 Montgomery Avenue, and then hiding in the back of a house on that same block.
Highway cops also found a second suspect matching the original identification. The cops transported both suspects to the emergency room at Temple University, for identification by the victims.
By then, both juvenile complainants had parents on location, who, according to the police, "refused to let juvenile complainants identify the suspected shooters because of their race."
Because of the negative IDs, the police had to release both suspects.
Cops investigating the scene at 1400 Cecil B. Moore Avenue found eight casings.
As of yesterday, Philadelphia leads the nation in murders, with 106. Coming in second was Chicago, which has a million more residents than Philadelphia, but only 102 murders.
In Philadelphia, since D.A. Larry Krasner took office, another identity politics practitioner, murders have jumped from 315 in 2017, the year before Krasner took office, to an all-time record of 562 last year.
That's a 78% increase.
Meanwhile, carjackings have jumped from 244 in 2019 to 757 last year.
That's an increase over just two years of 210%.
The vast majority of violent crimes in Philadelphia are black-on-black crimes. Yet the mental disease known as identity politics reigns at the city's only daily newspaper.
According to Publisher Lisa Hughes, The Philadelphia Inquirer, in its campaign to become an "anti-racist" newspaper, has set up a community news desk to address "long-standing shortcomings in how our journalism portrays Philadelphia communities, which have often been stigmatized by coverage that over-emphasizes crime."
According to the publisher, that includes "establishing a formal process that will allow, upon petition and approval, for certain types of stories to be rendered harder to find in online searches."
That's why you won't read about this incident in the Inquirer. Instead of judging people by the content of their character -- where have we heard that before? -- the only thing that matters to identity politics practitioners like the journalists at the Inquirer is the color of their skin.
The mental disease known as identity politics also reigns at City Hall.
The only reason Mayor Jim Kenney appointed the incompetent and totally ineffective Danielle Outlaw as police commissioner was because the mayor had promised to appoint only a black female.
But according to a couple of in-house police bloggers who are widely believed to be African Americans, while the murders continue, "Outlaw does nothing, but no one can complain about her because she is a Black female," the bloggers wrote. "This is the real 'elephant in the room.' Identity politics is Philadelphia’s number one underlying problem."
"The Black community continues to enable Outlaw, and the Black bodies continue to pile up," the bloggers wrote. "Children are dying. People are hurt. Excuses don’t fix anything."
Tell that to those parents in the emergency room, who just let a couple of suspects go who may have been responsible for attempting to carjack, as well as shoot their own daughters.
In a town gone crazy, let's keep practicing insanity.