2 shot!

[96D]

2 Philly Cop's shot in the last 24hrs!!!!! Thoughts & Prayers go out to them & their families.

[ca2pa]

Originally Posted by 96D

2 Philly Cop's shot in the last 24hrs!!!!! Thoughts & Prayers go out to them & their families.

Most definately. I knew i didnt like Philly when i first arrived to this state, my flight arrived at night and i had to drive in the city to get to my hotel. There was just something weird about the feeling of that place....so much for the city of "brotherly love."

[Rule10b5]

Story below (at least for one of them). The cop was walking into a Dunkin Donuts and interrupted a robbery in progress. Bummer; wife, kids, minding his own business and shot just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Who would expect this shit to happen at 10:30 a.m., when you're probably just stopping in for a cup of coffee, a donut, and to bullshit with the owners for a few minutes?





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Philadelphia Police Officer Charles Cassidy is out of surgery after being shot in the head during a robbery this morning, and last rites have been administered. A medical team at Albert Einstein Medical Center is trying to stabilize his blood pressure and reduce swelling in his brain.

Cassidy, 54, was critically injured this morning when he walked into a robbery in progress at a Dunkin' Donuts in West Oak Lane. Philadelphia police are looking for a man they described as "extremely armed and dangerous" in connection with the shooting.
Cassidy was the third Philadelphia police officer shot since early Sunday morning.

Robert Eddis, immediate past present of the local Fraternal Order of Police, said of Cassidy:

“What a great guy. Quiet guy, a family guy. Everything was about his family, I mean his whole thing was his kids and his wife. Seeing them walk into the hospital, it was just total sadness. … When is it going to stop. When are the people in our city going to put an end to this? It’s just got to stop.”

Police Commissioner Sylvester M. Johnson, speaking outside the hospital around midday, addressed the issue of police and crime: "The officers who are going out there with violent criminals and weapons are being basically assassinated, basically shot for just doing their job and nothing else." He said police have the attack on videotape, which was taken from security cameras and would be released this afternoon.

Police said that Cassidy, a 25-year veteran, stopped into Dunkin' Donuts in the 6600 block of North Broad Street about 10:30 a.m. as part of his morning routine. Johnson said he regularly checked on local businesses where recent robberies had occurred. Cassidy entered at the same time a robber pulled a gun and demanded money. The gunman spun around and fired at least one shot at the officer.

Johnson said that the gunman shot the officer once in the head and that the bullet lodged in his brain. The officer fell near a trash can and the gunman then took the officer's gun. Police are conducting a massive manhunt in the area.

The robber was described as a heavyset African American man about 5-foot-11 to 6 feet tall wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, tan khaki pants and tan boots, and with a spiderweb tattoo on his left hand. He may have been carrying an extra hoodie that is black with gray stripes.

"We need the public's help," Johnson implored, urging anyone with information to call 911. Johnson said the gunman was "extremely armed and dangerous."

"There is a criminal element in this city and around the country that have completely lost any respect for authority, and the proliferation of guns and weapons in this city and in cities around the country make this a very tough and challenging and difficult job for the police department," he said.

Asked about the recent spate of shootings of officers, Johnson said, "Somebody's got to realize we've got a gun problem in this city."

Mayor Street, speaking outside the hospital after a meeting with the officer's family, vowed: "We are going to find the person who did this - and they're going to be punished."

Cassidy's wife, Judy, and three children are among the family members at the hospital. Cardinal Rigali, who arrived there this afternoon, said that last rites had been administered. The family is a member of St. Jerome Parish.

Rigali called this a moment of hope, saying "tragedy brings out something in the community that very, very wonderful."

Street said the family is very "distressed. We told them we would be here for them and that they had our prayers. We told them we are going to catch the perpetrator of this act."

He added, "A person who would be in a Dunkin' Donuts robbing a Dunkin' Donuts, then putting a gun at the head of a police officer and then shooting him down in cold blood, this is a troubled individual."

Street said that he was shaken after meeting with the family and that although he has opposed the death penalty, a crime like today's "makes you reevaluate your beliefs."

He deflected criticism of the city's high rate of violence, and called the worsening crime situation a national problem brought on by federal cuts in job training and education.

The officer's shooting "shows a blatant disregard for authority that we're going to have to come to grips with," Street said. "We're creating an underclass of people who are likely to resort to violence in a serious way."

After the shooting this morning, police flooded the neighborhood and conducted a house-by-house search for the man whom they believe lives locally.

Authorities said they found clothing in the area that they believe the gunman took off while fleeing.

Teams of SWAT officers called in on the manhunt have searched numerous addresses based on tips from the public. Authorities urged all residents in the area to keep their children with them and inside their homes.
Schools and early education centers in the area - 54 in all - went into lockdown mode after the shooting.

Fernando Gallard, district spokesman, said students were being released in an orderly fashion with security and police standing by. After school and athletic programs were to go on as scheduled. The lockdown began with the Ellwood Elementary School because the gunman was across the street.

La Salle University announced that its evening classes on the main campus were canceled for the night, although student activities, including athletic events, were to be held as scheduled.

[DaveM55]

Prayers to the officers and thier families...

[Nate]

Originally Posted by DaveM55

Prayers to the officers and thier families...

ditto, it's story's like these that remind me why I respect so much those that are on the streets daily keeping us safer.

[xddan]

are prayers are with them and there families Dan

[KeithPA]

Originally Posted by Rule10b5

Cassidy, 54, was critically injured this morning when he walked into a robbery in progress at a Dunkin' Donuts in West Oak Lane. Philadelphia police are looking for a man they described as "extremely armed and dangerous" in connection with the shooting.
Cassidy was the third Philadelphia police officer shot since early Sunday morning.

I hope there is some reason/excuse as to why he "walked into a robbery in progress," otherwise that isn't very good situational awareness.

And Johnson blames it on the guns again! whoop whoop

[Vortex]

Originally Posted by 96D

2 Philly Cop's shot in the last 24hrs!!!!!

Not only that, it appears to be the third Philly officer shot in the last 4 days. (http://cbs3.com/video/?id=47837@kyw.dayport.com)

Phila. Police Officer Critical After Shooting

The officer was the third cop shot in four days in the City of Brotherly Love.

Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson said 54-year-old Officer Charles Cassidy, a 25-year veteran of the force, was shot near 66th Avenue and Broad Street just before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Originally Posted by Rule10b5

Who would expect this shit to happen at 10:30 a.m., when you're probably just stopping in for a cup of coffee, a donut, and to bullshit with the owners for a few minutes?

For whatever reason, the current suspect is thought to have done this at the exact same location a little over a month ago.

Phila. Police Officer Critical After Shooting

The suspect is described as a heavy-set African American male in his 20s, approximately 5'11"- 6' tall, wearing a dark hoodie, tan khaki pants, black and white striped tan boots and has a tattoo of a spider on his left hand.

Police believe the suspect is responsible for a robbery at the same Dunkin' Donuts on September 18.

It does make you wonder though. Nobody in the neighborhood is going to be hard up enough to rat you out with a "tattoo of a spider on your left hand"? Surveillance video footage has been released. (http://cbs3.com/video/?id=47848@kyw.dayport.com)

[PAhunter]

Serious times in Philly. Found this article detailing the 3 shootings this morning.

Url:http://www.kyw1060.com/3-Phila--Cops...Sunday/1161295

If you would just rather read it:

"Wednesday's shooting of Officer Charles Cassidy (see related story) was the third Philadelphia police-involved shooting this week.

On Tuesday night in Center City, traffic Philadelphia police officer Mariano Santiago was wounded in the shoulder by a gunman who had minutes before shot three other people inside a car. That gunman, Jerome Whitaker, jumped into the Schuylkill River and drowned (see related story).

Police say he had been convicted to the 1994 murder of a six-year-old girl. He spent 11 years behind bars and was then parolled by the prison system.

Officer Sandra Van Hinkal, an 18-year department veteran, was wounded in the ankle Sunday morning when four armed men began shooting at each other and then at police outside KoKo Bongo, a hip hop club in University City. Police fatally shot one of the gunmen (see related story)."

Hope and prayers are with these 3 officers and their families.

Jack

[crazyyankee]

Our prayers and blessings go out to the officers and their families.

A pox goes out to Mayor Street and the others for trying to blame this on the rest of the State and Country. Only those in the city can change their culture of violence.
It seems they care more about a "street rep" then others lives, so they get what they give.... but it's all okay, as long as the next government check is here on time....

Ok short rant over....