Philadelphia DA investigator placed on restricted duty after violent social media post: report
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
A member of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s investigative team is on restricted duty after a social media post shared white-supremacist conspiracies and advocated violence, according to a report from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Inquirer identified the investigator as Vincent Rotondi, who went by the name Vinny Ro on Facebook. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner did not identify the investigator to the outlet.
A photo of a social media post by the account shared by the Inquirer showed that the writer was “ready to go to war” because there’s “no negotiating when it’s believed the election was rigged.”
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By Gina Christian • Posted January 14, 2021
A new legal decision against a proposed safe injection site in Philadelphia is being welcomed by several area faithful.
On Tuesday, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the nonprofit Safehouse would violate the federal “crack house” statute (part of the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act) by opening a facility for supervised intravenous consumption of illegal drugs.
“It is a correct statement by the court,” said bioethicist Steven Bozza, director of the archdiocesan Office for Life and Family.
“Thank God for this victory,” said Father Douglas McKay, founder and chaplain of Our House Ministries, a Catholic-based recovery outreach in the Grays Ferry section of the city. “We shouldn’t be going in the direction of safe injection sites. It’s a form of euthanasia.”
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Happy Thursday, Illinois.
HISTORIC! Donald Trump was impeached a second time, and now the most press-hungry president in history has gone dark (and yes, there are other ways for the leader of the free world to get his views out besides Twitter).
Supporters of President Donald Trump are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6. Both the mob outside, and those rioters who fought past police and breached the Capitol, displayed banners and symbols of white supremacy and anti-government extremism.
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Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara said Thursday he will not be bullied into resigning and the union’s board of directors will not demand that he step down for sympathizing with and defending the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week.
In fact, Catanzara said he has filed an unfair labor practices complaint against the 36 aldermen demanding his ouster on grounds they “showed their bias” and now can’t vote impartially on ratifying a new police contract.