72 Philadelphia Police Officers Placed On Desk Duty Over Offensive Social Media Posts
by Bobby Allyn
Jun 19, 2019
3 minutes
The Philadelphia Police Department has pulled 72 officers off their regular duties as authorities investigate inflammatory social media posts revealed in a database that found thousands of offensive postings by current and former officers, the city's police commissioner said Wednesday.
Police officials in Philadelphia are describing the action as the largest removal of officers from the street in recent memory.
"We are equally as disgusted by many of the posts that you saw and in many cases, the rest of the
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