Anti-Donald Trump protests continued in our area Saturday.
Anti-Donald Trump protests continued in our area Saturday.
A traffic stop led to a police-involved shooting in the Olney section of Philadelphia Saturday night.
Investigators say officers were conducting a vehicle investigation at 4th and Lindley streets. As they approached the minivan a 20-year-old man with an object in his hand left the vehicle and ran westbound on Lindley Street, police said.
One of the officers ran after the suspect, caught up to him and pushed him into an unattended parked vehicle, causing him to fall to the ground, according to investigators. The suspect gathered himself and turned around with a gun in his hand, police said. The suspect then allegedly ran towards the officer’s partner.
The other officer took out his own weapon and opened fire, striking the suspect once in the back. The suspect fell to the ground and dropped his weapon, police said. He was then taken to Einstein Hospital where he is in critical but stable condition.
An investigation is underway after a black student at Villanova University told police she was attacked by a group of men who ran towards her while screaming, “Trump.”
The student told Villanova’s Public Safety Department she was walking in the SEPTA tunnel between the university’s West Campus and Main Campus Thursday night. The student says she was then approached by a group of white men who ran towards her and knocked her to the ground, causing her to suffer a head injury. The student said the men were yelling, “Trump! Trump! Trump,” according to a source close to Villanova University.
Villanova’s Public Safety Department contacted Radnor Police who are now handling the investigation. Police are searching for surveillance video of the incident and plan on interviewing the student. Villanova University is investigating the incident as well.
“The University finds this conduct deplorable and considers this racist behavior that runs completely counter to our values,” Jonathan Gust, Villanova’s Director of Media Relations, wrote in a released statement. “Actions such as this will simply not be tolerated at Villanova. Those found responsible for such reprehensible behavior will face serious consequences for their actions and will be disciplined appropriately. The safety and security of our students is always our primary concern. It is at times like this when we must come together in solidarity as a community against such actions.”
Saturday night, Villanova President Peter M. Donohue also released a statement on the reported incident.
“Over the past few days, I have been deeply disturbed by several reports of members of our community using our nation’s political process as a justification for behaviors and language aimed to intimidate or humiliate other people,” he wrote. “This type of behavior is not acceptable and will not be tolerated at Villanova. Anyone found to have engaged in such behavior will face serious consequences. I ask that anyone who experiences or witnesses such incidents to report it by contacting Villanova’s Public Safety (610-519-4444), calling the local police if it occurs off-campus, or filing a complaint anonymously with Ethics Point.”
The reported incident follows several acts of hateful messages and vandalism in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s presidential win.
On Friday over 100 black freshmen students at UPenn received text messages from an account on the GroupMe app containing racist and violent images and statements, including photos of African-Americans hanging from trees by nooses from users like “Daddy Trump.” An event invitation called "Daily Lynching" also went out to the students added to the group message.
On Thursday students in Bucks County’s Council Rock High School North reported swastikas and threats linked to Donald Trump to school officials.
Finally on Wednesday, both pro and anti-Trump graffiti was spray-painted in Queen Village while Nazi graffiti was found in another South Philadelphia neighborhood.
Dr. Cindy Otto, whose work at Ground Zero following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks inspired her founding of the Penn Vet Working Dog Center, is the recipient of the 2016 Kennel Club of Philadelphia "Dogs’ Best Friend Award."
A tenured associate professor of critical care at the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Otto is the sixth winner of the award, and will direct the resulting Kennel Club of Philadelphia (KCP) $5,000 donation to the nationally-renowned Penn Vet Working Dog Center (WDC). Opened on September 11, 2012, the WDC is the nation’s premier research, training and educational facility dedicated to producing an elite group of detection dogs for public safety and public health (www.PennVetWDC.org).
Among the skills for which canines are trained at the WDC are Diabetes Alert, Ovarian Cancer Detection, Narcotics Detection, Explosives Detection, Law Enforcement and Urban Search & Rescue. Dr. Otto and WDC dogs will demonstrate some of those skills in the National Dog Show stadium show ring on Saturday, Nov. 19, at 11:45 a.m. in a featured performance.
In addition to 9/11, Dr. Otto was deployed to Hurricane Floyd in 1999 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. She is one of America’s foremost authorities on search & rescue and detection dogs through her work at Penn Vet.
"It is an honor to receive this award, but it is really the other way around," said Dr. Otto. “I feel like I have been privileged to have been befriended by amazing dogs throughout my life! I have connected with dogs for as long as I can remember and they have all impacted me in one way or another. The search and rescue dogs have worked their way into my heart and my soul.
"It is their inspiration that motivated me to learn to train my own dog and to dedicate my career to working dogs. Every day I am able to advance the research, training and care needed to ensure that all working dog heroes have the best opportunity to partner with us to save lives."
"As a Past Trustee of the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Veterinary Medicine, I am very much aware of Dr. Otto's dedication, devotion and leadership at the Working Dog Center," said KCP President Wayne Ferguson. "The Kennel Club of Philadelphia is very honored to present the 6th Annual Dogs’ Best Friend Award to Dr. Otto."
The Kennel Club of Philadelphia created The Dogs’ Best Friend Award to inspire and motivate others to contribute to animal welfare in their community and to protect our region’s dogs, whose service and companionship are a critical and enriching part of American life.
Past winners of the award are former Philadelphia Phillies’ second baseman Chase Utley and his wife, Jen, for their establishment of the Utley Foundation; CBS3 meteorologist, animal enthusiast and TV personality Carol Erickson; Marian Marchese, the founder of New Leash on Life USA, which takes at-risk dogs into Philadelphia prisons to be cared for by inmates preparing for release back into society; Morris Animal Rescue of Philadelphia, America’s oldest such facility; and the Martin & Toni Sosnoff Foundation, which paid the medical bills of search and rescue dogs who worked at 9/11.
Demonstrations both for and against Donald Trump continue nationwide in the aftermath of his stunning presidential win, including some in our area. In Easton, Pennsylvania Saturday, Trump supporters and protesters gathered in the downtown area to let their voices be heard.
The two groups stood opposite each other in the Easton Center Circle around noon. The dueling demonstrations were peaceful though members of both groups had plenty to say.
“I think people have to respect democracy even if you don’t agree with the result,” one Trump supporter said.
The pro-Trump group told NBC10 they believe the country should give Trump a chance and put an end to the massive protests that have been occurring across the country.
“I don’t think they represent the real democratic people by protesting and doing what they’re doing,” another Trump supporter said.
On the other side of the street however, hundreds of anti-Trump demonstrators denounced the president-elect.
“I have a handicapped child and when you disrespect them like that, that puts me in rage,” one protester said.
Some of the protesters told NBC10 they now live in fear because of what a Trump presidency could mean.
“The Latinos, the African Americans, Muslim people and LGBT community now fear for their own basic human rights,” one woman said.
Easton Mayor Sal Panto said President-elect Trump needs to come out and heal the nation.
“President-elect Trump in the next two months really has to come out more publicly with what his issues are and how he wants to bridge the gap,” Mayor Panto said.
Right after Panto made that statement, two demonstrators, one from each side, ran into the middle of the street and embraced.
“People can be different and still be friends and get along,” one of the demonstrators said.
It was a moment that hinted towards a more unified future amid a week of divisiveness.
Three teenagers were arrested in connection to a mob-style attack that injured an off-duty officer and at least five others in Center City.
A law enforcement source close to the investigation told NBC10 a group of over 50 teen boys were on 16th and Walnut streets Saturday night and began randomly attacking people in the area. An off-duty officer who was in the area with his wife at the time, tried to arrest some of the teens but the crowd turned on him and began to beat him as well, according to the source.
The officer suffered a broken orbital bone and a cut to his face. At least five other people, including the off-duty officer's wife, were also injured during the attack, officials said.
"We looked and we saw people who had obviously been beaten up," a witness, who did not want to be identified, told NBC10. "They were bleeding from their heads. We saw at least three people that were like that."
The witness said the victims told her the attacks were completely random.
"They said it was unprovoked," the witness said. "They didn't say anything and they just found themselves getting beat up. It was scary."
At least three teens were arrested in connection to the incident. Officials are currently looking for surveillance footage as the investigation continues. They are also looking for any other victims in the attack to come forward.
Police are searching for an elderly Philadelphia man who went missing Saturday.
Davis Hill, 77, was last seen leaving his home on 1100 Anchor Street at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Hill suffers from dementia. He was last seen wearing a 3-quarter length tan jacket, black suede shoes and blue jeans with bleach splatter on them. He was also wearing a wedding ring.
Hill is described as a partially balding man with grey hair. If you have any information on his whereabouts, please call Philadelphia Police.
The Eagles defeated the Atlanta Falcons 24 to 15 at the Linc Sunday afternoon.
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For the fifth straight day, hundreds of people are marching through Center City to protest Donald Trump’s presidential win.
The protesters gathered at Thomas Paine Plaza on 1401 JFK Boulevard around 3 p.m. Sunday and began marching towards Independence Hall. The group plans to then return to Thomas Payne Plaza to hear from various speakers.
“This protest is not focused a single person or issue, its represents all those that feel marginalized or threatened by a Trump presidency,” organizers wrote. “It stands in solidarity with many groups: people of color, women, trans people, immigrants and those who feel as though their voices are not being heard. It is our duty as Americans to exercise our constitutional right to peaceably assemble and and bring light to our grievances.”
Protests in cities nationwide, including Philadelphia, have occurred since the election. So far all of the anti-Trump protests in Philly have been peaceful.
“An important point to note that this protest in no way supports or encourages violence or the vandalization of property,” organizers for Sunday’s protest wrote. “We must recognize that although the 1st Amendment provides with the right to assemble, we must do so in a peaceful way so we can lay the foundation to continue peaceful demonstrations into the future.”