PA - Philadelphia shootout, multiple officers shot, 14 August 2019 *Arrest*

[Anance]

This is a miracle with as many rounds as were shot.

Stormtrooper aim -- it's a thing.

 

[Anance]

ITA.
Disgusting behavior.

Perhaps, but doesn't it make you admire the police even more. They weren't distracted by the antics of a nasty crowd, keeping their on the goal the entire time.

 

[Anance]

Philadelphia crowd TAUNTS police as six officers are shot and two held hostage by AK-47 gunman before he surrenders when SWAT team fires tear gas to end stand off

Yes, could have ended up in riot but didn't.

 

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[Inthedetails]

Yes...the whole thing was messy, but ended w/no loss of life.

Just shows how appearances can be deceiving - I was sure it was complete chaos with no one in charge - yet even with a nasty, provocative crowd, wounded officers, hostages, policemen pinned inside with the gunman, the leadership made intelligent calls & ended it peacefully.

We have seen awesome police work in these last two shootings.

I don't know this to be true, but part of me wonders if the officers walked through that crowd to divert attention away from where other officers were escorting the kids out of the day care, in attempt to create a more calm pathway for the children's escape.

Speculation only. Not fact.

jmo

 

[Inthedetails]

Perhaps, but doesn't it make you admire the police even more. They weren't distracted by the antics of a nasty crowd, keeping their on the goal the entire time.

Well trained, well disciplined. Nobody additional hurt. Situation resolved with a hands-up surrender.

Impressive, imo.

jmo

 

[PommyMommy]

AUG 15, 2019
Prosecutor, Police Commissioner Negotiated Philadelphia Shooting Suspect's Surrender
Philadelphia’s top two law enforcement officials personally helped negotiate the surrender of a man armed with an assault rifle suspected of shooting and wounding six police officers during an hours-long standoff on Wednesday.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner told reporters on Thursday that he, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross Jr. and the suspect’s former attorney Shaka Johnson, were on a four-way phone call attempting to negotiate with 36-year-old shooting suspect Maurice Hill.

[...]

Krasner said Hill expressed concerns over the phone that he would be killed when he came out or would be killed in the future. According to Krasner, Hill spoke in a very “animated, excited and frankly dangerous state,” and everyone on the call was doing what they could to bring Hill to a calmer place and “to a rational position.”

[...]

 

[zecats]

AUG 15, 2019
Prosecutor, Police Commissioner Negotiated Philadelphia Shooting Suspect's Surrender
Philadelphia’s top two law enforcement officials personally helped negotiate the surrender of a man armed with an assault rifle suspected of shooting and wounding six police officers during an hours-long standoff on Wednesday.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner told reporters on Thursday that he, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross Jr. and the suspect’s former attorney Shaka Johnson, were on a four-way phone call attempting to negotiate with 36-year-old shooting suspect Maurice Hill.

[...]

Krasner said Hill expressed concerns over the phone that he would be killed when he came out or would be killed in the future. According to Krasner, Hill spoke in a very “animated, excited and frankly dangerous state,” and everyone on the call was doing what they could to bring Hill to a calmer place and “to a rational position.”

[...]

Well done Philly!

 

[Det. Esquire]

What happened to these officers was absolutely terrible and I’m elated that it appears each of them will make a full recovery. With that being said, I can’t help but question whether standard operating procedure was followed in the process of serving the warrant that resulted in the shooting. From the public reports thus far, these officers were executing a felony narcotics search warrant at the home of the shooter and were ambushed as they came to the door of the premises. I can’t fathom why uniformed officers and case detectives were part of the entry team that approached the home. This wasn’t enforcement of a bench warrant or misdemeanor harassment arrest warrant, this was a high level operation that involved the importation and distribution of huge quantities of illegal narcotics in and around the City of Philadelphia. For starters, the investigative team should have exhausted every possible avenue to reach a conclusive decision as to whether the subject or anyone with access to the premises were known to be in possession of any firearms. I don’t care if the subject was seen with a Glock a decade ago, that should have been part of the briefing ahead of executing the warrant. If the team was anything but absolutely positive there would not be any weapons on the premises they needed to call in SWAT to run point on this operation. Felony narcotics search warrants have been regularly upheld as sufficient basis permitting police to execute a pre-dawn, no-knock entry of the premises that is to be searched. This is a standard situation where SWAT should have breached the front door and cleared the premises room by room, detaining each person they came in contact with along the way until the premises was deemed clear and secure. Only after the cleared designation should the case detectives and uniformed officers tasked with conducting the physical search have entered the premises. As a matter of fact, they should have been waiting for the all clear call behind some kind of cover in the event a gun fight erupted between SWAT and occupants of the premises.

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[PommyMommy]

AUG 15, 2019
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...d-active-philadelphia-shootout-officials-say/
[...]

District Attorney Lawrence S. Krasner said that Hill could be charged with attempted murder and numerous other counts that could land him in prison for the rest of his life...

Krasner, who said he spoke to the suspect during the situation, credited “brilliant policing” with ending the standoff, which unfolded live across social media and cable news channels.

[...]

The gunman was not cooperating with police as of early Thursday, Ross told reporters. He said Johnson, the suspect’s former lawyer, came to the house toward the end of the standoff and talked with the gunman.

“Using him was unorthodox,” Ross said of the lawyer’s involvement in ending the standoff. “But again, it was a very unusual circumstance.”

[...]

Hill has a teenage son and a daughter born two days before the standoff, Johnson said. He said Hill was treated at a hospital for tear-gas exposure and released into police custody.

“I think you’re going to find there is some level of emotional and mental disturbance,” Johnson said of Hill’s state during the standoff. “To what degree, I don’t know. … Obviously, there’s going to be a psych eval [psychological evaluation].”

[...]

“It was like a war — like a scene that you see in war,” a woman who lives in the neighborhood told NBC. “The guns, the fire, the noise — it was like bombs going off simultaneously at a time where people are having dinner.”

 

[girlhasnoname]

Philly LE/responders get a round of applause from me. Heavy fire power and no loss of lives is admirable IMO.

 

[mickey2942]

Philly LE/responders get a round of applause from me. Heavy fire power and no loss of lives is admirable IMO.

Amazing, really.

 

[margarita25]

(O/T, I was just passing by the scene of a fatal motor accident. Traffic was backed up and crawling. There was a drone hovering right above the totaled scene. It’s getting to be a popular thing it seems, people sending their drones out to active scenes.)

 

[TristanP]

So what did they actually find in the house after all that?

 

[MsFacetious]

Awww man he just had a damn baby? Dude, come on now what the hell were you thinking?!

 

[PommyMommy]

AUG 16, 2019
Inside the Philly cop shootings
[...]

"Can we make entry to you and secure you safely?" a SWAT member asked.

The short answer: No. The team would run directly into the shooter if they came in through the front door, according to one of the trapped officers.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross later described it as one of the bravest moments of the entire standoff.

“The officers were astute enough and wise enough and brave enough to say do not come in here,” the chief said. “Think about what it takes to do that, to know that you’re trapped in the building yourself. Your natural inclination is to say help, come get me. But they did the opposite.”

[...]

“Does anybody know where this guy is in the house that’s live-streaming Facebook?” one officer asked.

“When they get the chance, I need to talk to one of them who has her,” another said a few minutes later, referring to the suspect’s girlfriend. “If he’s live-streaming, I want to see what he can see.”

[...]

The two trapped officers spent roughly five hours inside the home before they were evacuated around 9:30 p.m. Ross described the SWAT team’s work to get them out as “absolutely remarkable.”

The three prisoners trapped and handcuffed upstairs were also safely evacuated.

People on the street began calling for police to storm in after only Hill was left inside but negotiations continued slowly. “Preservation of life” had been the goal of the entire night, unlike the May 13, 1985, bombing of the black liberation group Move.

[...]

Around 9:30 p.m. Hill’s attorney Shaka Johnson called DA Larry Krasner. Hill had called his attorney from inside the house. Now, Johnson had to help bring this to a safe end.

Johnson patched in Hill so the three of them could discuss a peaceful resolution to the standoff. Commissioner Ross joined soon after in an “unorthodox” four-way phone call.

[...]

But Hill told Ross over the phone that he had no plans of returning to prison, alluding to his previous time served. Ross said Hill also talked about his newborn daughter.

[...]

As negotiations progressed, police used a bearcat — an armored forklift vehicle — to move cars from the area, many of which were shot at earlier in the day. Police also moved a wagon in position behind the armored SWAT truck as midnight approached.

At 12:02 a.m. about 15 popping sounds were heard from the edge of the scene and smoke began to billow near the house as police launched tear gas in Hill’s direction.

[...]

Hill walked from the house while on the phone with Johnson. A grainy photo captured from the scene shows Hill practically blinded by the police spotlights illuminating his outstretched arms.

[...]

He will face "more than enough charges,” Krasner said, “so Mr. Maurice Hill may never exit jail."

As the wagon with Hill inside turned left from 15th Street to Erie Avenue, it stopped.

Police opened the back of the wagon. At least three dozen officers, many of whom spent hours standing idly by on the perimeter of the scene, huddled around the open door.

For about five minutes, they stood there together before closing the door on Hill.

With a quiet exit, the wagon turned onto Erie and away from the city’s largest police shooting in history.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Attempted murder charges filed against Philly police shooting suspect Maurice Hill

 

[PommyMommy]

Attempted murder charges filed against Philly police shooting suspect Maurice Hill

From the article:

[...]

In addition to attempted murder, Hill also faces multiple counts of aggravated assault, assault of a law enforcement officer and other drug and firearm possession charges. District Attorney Larry Krasner said this week that Hill could spend the rest of his life in prison.

Hill appeared defiant Saturday morning, sitting with his arms crossed and head down. He responded “I guess” when the magistrate judge asked if he understood the charges against him, and then said “I am not an immediate danger” after a prosecutor argued he should remain in custody and not be offered bail.

Four other men were charged with drug offenses Saturday in connection with the standoff, two of whom were trapped in the house along with Hill and two Philadelphia police officers.

...Investigators believe Hill used an AR-15-style assault rifle and also had a handgun in his pocket when he surrendered just after midnight.

[...]

 

[Dawookie]

AUG 16, 2019
Inside the Philly cop shootings
[...]

"Can we make entry to you and secure you safely?" a SWAT member asked.

The short answer: No. The team would run directly into the shooter if they came in through the front door, according to one of the trapped officers.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross later described it as one of the bravest moments of the entire standoff.

“The officers were astute enough and wise enough and brave enough to say do not come in here,” the chief said. “Think about what it takes to do that, to know that you’re trapped in the building yourself. Your natural inclination is to say help, come get me. But they did the opposite.”

[...]

“Does anybody know where this guy is in the house that’s live-streaming Facebook?” one officer asked.

“When they get the chance, I need to talk to one of them who has her,” another said a few minutes later, referring to the suspect’s girlfriend. “If he’s live-streaming, I want to see what he can see.”

[...]

The two trapped officers spent roughly five hours inside the home before they were evacuated around 9:30 p.m. Ross described the SWAT team’s work to get them out as “absolutely remarkable.”

The three prisoners trapped and handcuffed upstairs were also safely evacuated.

People on the street began calling for police to storm in after only Hill was left inside but negotiations continued slowly. “Preservation of life” had been the goal of the entire night, unlike the May 13, 1985, bombing of the black liberation group Move.

[...]

Around 9:30 p.m. Hill’s attorney Shaka Johnson called DA Larry Krasner. Hill had called his attorney from inside the house. Now, Johnson had to help bring this to a safe end.

Johnson patched in Hill so the three of them could discuss a peaceful resolution to the standoff. Commissioner Ross joined soon after in an “unorthodox” four-way phone call.

[...]

But Hill told Ross over the phone that he had no plans of returning to prison, alluding to his previous time served. Ross said Hill also talked about his newborn daughter.

[...]

As negotiations progressed, police used a bearcat — an armored forklift vehicle — to move cars from the area, many of which were shot at earlier in the day. Police also moved a wagon in position behind the armored SWAT truck as midnight approached.

At 12:02 a.m. about 15 popping sounds were heard from the edge of the scene and smoke began to billow near the house as police launched tear gas in Hill’s direction.

[...]

Hill walked from the house while on the phone with Johnson. A grainy photo captured from the scene shows Hill practically blinded by the police spotlights illuminating his outstretched arms.

[...]

He will face "more than enough charges,” Krasner said, “so Mr. Maurice Hill may never exit jail."

As the wagon with Hill inside turned left from 15th Street to Erie Avenue, it stopped.

Police opened the back of the wagon. At least three dozen officers, many of whom spent hours standing idly by on the perimeter of the scene, huddled around the open door.

For about five minutes, they stood there together before closing the door on Hill.

With a quiet exit, the wagon turned onto Erie and away from the city’s largest police shooting in history.

BBM Thats the problem to me. With his long history of crime he shouldn't have been on the streets to begin with but he was and know they want to bring the hammer down?

And now with the mayor grandstanding , it's even worse. Funny how he goes on about needing more gun control laws yet is ignoring the lax prosecution of gun crimes by the city DA. What's the point of adding more laws when the person in charge of prosecuting those laws doesn't? The DA cares more about lowering the number of criminals in the system than he does the victims or their families.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

A week that saw six Philadelphia police officers shot while serving a warrant is ending with seven shootings that killed four people and wounded several others within a 24-hour period.

A music studio, a bar, and a neighborhood BBQ are just some of the scenes where shots were fired.

Just after 9 a.m. Saturday, police say a man in his 20s was running down the 3600 block of Drumore Road in Northeast Philadelphia while suspects in a car gave chase.

At least one suspect opened fire. Police say the victim was calling 911 as he was running from the shooter.

The victim ran up to a house trying to flee the suspects, but police say he was cornered.

"I heard one gunshot, saw him run up the street looking back. I didn't see anybody chasing him, and then I heard him in the distance yelling for help," a neighbor told Action News.

He was shot once in the chest and died at the scene. The suspects remains at large.
4 killed, several others injured in multiple shootings in Philadelphia