Stop-And-Frisk On Its Way!

The supervisors also encourage officers to be clever and resourceful about using even minor infractions - something as routine as spitting, littering, loitering, or holding an open container of alcohol - as a rationale to stop a suspect person and conduct a legal frisk.

Woo-hoo! Are you as psyched as I am, Philly, for stop-and-frisk? I know, I know, I’m white, so it’s unlikely I’ll ever be searched by a cop on the street, but, hey, I can kind of get into the spirit as well. The cops got training yesterday, and I used to spit on the street when I was 13, so maybe I’ll pick the habit back up again so I can get searched for weapons!

City police get stop-and-frisk lessons [Inquirer]

‘Daily News’ Does Walk Of Shame

Oh, it wasn’t just a press release on Friday. To make sure we got the point, some of Fattah’s followers protested outside the Daily News last week. The protesters chanted “Shame on you, Daily News!” while marching outside the paper’s offices at 400 N. Broad Street.

It wasn’t just that cartoon. Fattah already has a strategy for explaining a loss, as a group called the Save Our Kids Alliance has complained the Daily News “has engaged in biased reporting that targets Fattah while providing free advertising for Michael Nutter.” The Daily News hasn’t been investigating Michael Nutter’s tremendous amount of blackness yet.

Fattah didn’t just let other people complain for him, though. He took action:

“It’s an insult to the lives of people spent not in the ivory tower of newspaper editorial rooms. I’ve been out on street corners. I have been shot myself trying to help young people be protected.”

The ivory tower of newspaper editorial rooms! Watch out, Daily News editor Michael Days, next Fattah’s going to call you not black enough.

Fattah backers rip cartoon [Daily News]

Nutter Picks Up Lapsed Catholic Endorsement

Yesterday, Tom Knox supporters attempted to gain votes by distributing the flier above (click to enlarge), which alleges Michael Nutter and Bob Brady are lapsed Catholics.

Michael Nutter? He was Catholic when it was convenient for him, so he could get a quality Catholic education. Now? He quietly left the Catholic Church to become a Baptist, probably because his polls told him it would be a smart move. ¶ Bob Brady? He admitted that he never attends mass.

Somehow, I don’t think this is going to work as well as the mysterious flier distributor wants it to. Do you know how many lapsed Catholics there are? Michael Nutter might’ve just picked up a couple votes from the young, bored Christmas-and-Easter crowd. (Bob Brady said he’s a regular churchgoer, so that part appears to be just a lie.)

Nice boost for the Prep there, though. “The school people will sit through Church for!”

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