Security heightened across Philadelphia ahead of Inauguration Day
By FOX 29 staff
Security heightened across Philadelphia ahead of Inauguration Day
City leaders held a press conference Thursday to lay out some of their security plans ahead of Inauguration Day.
PHILADELPHIA - City leaders announced Thursday they are stepping up security across Philadelphia ahead of Inauguration Day.
The FBI warned of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration, stoking fears of more bloodshed after last week s deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol. While we are here together, we are putting the band back together to make sure the City of Brotherly love and sisterly affection is safe, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said. There are two sides to that. The one side is we want every single person who voted for whatever candidate, who supports whatever party to know you are protected here and that
Yogananda Pittman named acting US Capitol police chief after riots
The US Capitol Police has appointed a Black woman as its acting police chief after the former head resigned in the fallout from the agency’s inadequate response to pro-Trump rioters who staged an insurrection at the Capitol last week.
Yogananda Pittman, who previously served as an assistant chief, will be the first woman and first Black person to head the Capitol Police, according to Morgan State University, the historically black school that Pittman graduated from in 1999. CNN reached out to Capitol police and has not been able to independently confirm this.
Seattle business owner and co-founder of Buki Joey Rodolfo on the price of rioting.
Protests and riots ravaged parts of the nation in the days, weeks and months following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Floyd, 46, died on May 25 after a White Minneapolis police officer was seen on video holding his knee on Floyd’s neck for several minutes despite his shouts that he couldn’t breathe. The video went viral and people took to the streets to protest police brutality and systemic racism.
Floyd’s death also highlighted a number of other Black people who were killed at the hands of White individuals or police officers. Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was fatally shot while out jogging in a Georgia neighborhood on Feb. 23 when a group of White men shot and killed him after allegedly suspecting he was a burglar. The shooting was caught on video.
One in an occasional series about Philadelphia’s unchecked gun violence. Every trip outside the house for Jackee Nichols brings a new reminder of the pain. Nichols is from a part of South Philadelphia that has been embroiled in a shooting conflict for as long as anyone can remember. In October 2018, that violence claimed her 15-year-old grandson. Police believe he was gunned down for living on the wrong block but, like most shootings in Philadelphia, no one has been charged in the crime. Now Nichols faces the daily torment of living among the people she suspects killed her grandson, Rasul Benson, leaving trauma to resurface in unexpected moments.