On February 5, an armed citizen saved an Upper Darby police officer who was under assault and encircled by a mob of onlookers.
Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said “there is no doubt they would have attacked” the officer without the armed citizen’s intervention.
According to Philly.com, the officer was breaking up a fight between two Upper Darby High School students–after school had let out for the day–and one of the students jumped the officer. Superintendent Chitwood said, “As he breaks up the fight, he takes one kid and then the other jumps [on] him. Now he’s fighting two of them and he’s calling for an assist officer at the same time. There’s a crowd of 40 or 50 kids watching the fight, and they all move in towards the officer.”
An area resident with a concealed carry permit saw the officer struggling and the crowd closing in, so he grabbed his gun and ran to the officer’s defense. The resident ordered the kids to get away from the officer and kept them away until sufficient backup arrived. Chitwood said, “He had the gun in his hand, but he didn’t point it at the kids, he just told them to back off. If this guy didn’t come out and come to the aid of the officer, this officer would have had significant problems.”
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11 comments:
Thank you for reporting these stories. The MSM does not show the good, only the bad.
What this can't be true... Remember according to cops and anti-gun people, guns hurt people not save them... And to save an officer of the law??? NO way...
I am glad this happened to an extent, it shows how we need to protect ourselves and others...
I would have loved for this cop to be a statistic because they think they have all the power in the world because they can start conflicts and have 10 other cops show up to defend what they started... There will be times where cops start stuff and can't defend themselves or have help come in time, and this shows that too... Watch what you do and how you do it to others or it can turn out badly...
If it wasn't for this guy with a permit who saved this cops life, I am sure the cop would have been beating up pretty bad... or worse, someone would have been shot...
9:04, totally agree, and if the mob had attacked the office, there would still be no report from the MSM, glad the guy was there to save the officer. Totally disgusting that its "high school" kids with such disrespect for authority. Great society we have going on here.
clueless 919
919 you wish the cop became a statistic? Your a terrorist!! Not that it matters but name 5 cops who are against non criminals owning guns? I don't know any but like I said it doesn't matter we all know your type prays to a different person.
Good for the private citizen!!!!!!
Why doesn't the story also say that the unruly kids were all black, the same as the two asalients? Whenever it is black on white crime, race is left out of the story, but if the guy had to shoot one of them, oh boy!
Yet we still have legislators that can't get this through their biased bought-and-payed-for heads.
throw 9:19 to them
If this had been Lewis, no one would even piss on him if he was on fire.
5:47 I'm hoping your wrong. If I could get a CCP I would have done the same thing. Maybe some day in Md. LOL Not
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