How alarming is the trend of soft on crime defense attorneys to victims and their families across the U.S.? Operation Save Our City founder Rosalind Pichardo and aunt of California murder victim Crystal Diuguid with reaction.
A man accused of raping and stalking multiple women in the Philadelphia area this month was arrested in Indianapolis on Saturday, according to police.
Kevin Bennett, 28, was taken into custody around 1:50 p.m. and is currently being held by the Marion County Sheriff s Office, arrest records show.
The first rape occurred on May 16 at 5:00 a.m., when Bennet allegedly ordered the victim out of her car, took her into an alleyway, and sexually assaulted her.
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Rosalind Pichardo (left), founder of Operation Save Our City, lost her brother to gun violence in 2012, and Aleida Garcia (right), lost her son to gun violence in 2015. They organized a rally on May 11, 2021, in support of Carlos Vega, a prosecutor who’s running for Philadelphia district attorney. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
A small group of crime victims gathered Tuesday in the shadow of the Municipal Services Building to denounce Philadelphia District Larry Krasner ahead of the Democratic primary on May 18.
Rows of faux body bags and handmade headstones stood on the concrete plaza behind them. Posters featuring the faces of murder victims with unsolved cases rounded out the grim display.
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A memorial was held on Tuesday for murder victims in Philadelphia whose cases are still unsolved, including a 13-year-old girl who was found shot to death last month. There s so many unsolved murders here in Philadelphia, said Rosalind Pichardo, founder of Operation Save Our City, who put on the event held in McPherson Square.
Thirteen-year-old Alezauna Carter, known as Libby, was found dead after being shot in her face on the 1500 block of Overington Street on April 18. Philadelphia police initially identified her as a 20-year-old woman.
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He was murdered in 2012.
This year, Pichardo braved a nor easter, but she s a woman on a mission that extends beyond activism for peace.
Kensington is home base for her nonprofit, Operation Save Our City, and of the opioid epidemic, which hasn t slowed during the pandemic.
She s armed with hand sanitizer, masks and Narcan, and has reversed almost 500 overdoses, recorded in a little black book she tucks in fanny packs.
When asked why she puts herself in these situations, Pichardo replied, Because this is the need of my community. I know what my community needs and they need what we ve been doing, and nobody else is going to do it. Nobody else has been doing it.
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