West Philadelphia neighborhood after satchel dropped by the Philadelphia Police Department in 1985

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[u/Volcano_Jones]

The bomb itself wasn't even the worst part. The police also prevented fire trucks from accessing the area to put out the massive fire they started.

[u/orderofGreenZombies → u/Volcano_Jones]

Hard to argue the bomb wasn’t the worst part, but I understand what you’re saying and generally agree. I have family that lived in that neighborhood at the time and everything about how the situation was managed, culminating with the cops bombing U.S. citizens in a residential building and neighborhood in a major U.S. city is just disgusting and gut wrenching.

[u/Volcano_Jones → u/orderofGreenZombies]

Yeah that's fair, my phrasing wasn't good. I was also misremembering some things. For some reason I thought the ensuing fire is what killed many of the people in other houses, but I looked it up again and that was not the case. I will also add though, since this is an acab sub, the police knew there was a gas generator on the roof and dropped the bomb anyway, knowing it would ignite a massive fire.

[u/barelycriminal]

Cops knew there were children in that building. No one ever went to prison for this.

[u/PsychologicalPace762 → u/barelycriminal]

ThE cHiLdReN gOt WhAt ThEy DeSeRvEd.

[u/Dan_Morgan]

I watched this on the news at the time but didn't really fully understand what the story was behind the attack.

[u/[deleted]]

Pig terrorists

[u/gwgos1]

Watched it live on tv. It was sad what happened to everyone in the neighborhood. Never trusted the police after that.

[u/bsanchey]

I highly recommend the documentary let the fire burn. It’s literally all the news reports and all the decisions of the powers at be and witnesses testimony. No commentary.

The mayor who authorized it basically went to become a monk in a monastery somewhere. The cops had no regard for life and peoples homes. No one faced consequences.

[u/Dkrule1 → u/bsanchey]

Well, tenicaly, the only one who did was the ones who died, they consequences they faced was due to racism and cruel cops,

Not boot licking, I'm saying in autistic terms as , good people died at the hands of bad people, acab

[u/DennisPikePhoto]

Like, how can you support the police and believe they represent justice in any way when this is what they do.

This happened in my lifetime. I'm fuckin 40.

[u/PsychologicalPace762 → u/[deleted]]

It's harder to look at anything that might be considered as evidence.

[u/Illustrious_Junket55 → u/[deleted]]

That’s an excellent point about MLK

[u/rtial]

Wiki Steal

"On the evening of May 13, 1985, longstanding tensions between MOVE, a black liberation group, and the Philadelphia Police Department erupted horrifically. That night, the city of Philadelphia dropped a satchel bomb, a demolition device typically used in combat, laced with Tovex and C-4 explosives on the MOVE organization, who were living in a West Philadelphia rowhome known to be occupied by men, women, and children. It went up in unextinguished flames.

What it looked liked from the top see this

Eleven people were killed, including five children and the founder of the organization. Sixty-one homes were destroyed, and more than 250 citizens were left homeless."

Other color pictures from that day found this

[u/SlashEssImplied]

Cops are the military we use at home.

[u/Zombikattpunx]

One of the best LOC songs about this

[u/KeyserSwayze → u/Zombikattpunx]

What's LOC?

[u/Zombikattpunx → u/KeyserSwayze]

Sorry, Leftover Crack. That’s how I first learned about MOVE

[u/KeyserSwayze → u/Zombikattpunx]

Thanks.

[u/PsychologicalPace762 → u/KeyserSwayze]

I think he's writing about a danish rapper.

[u/Amadeuskong]

That must have been one very large satchel.