{"id":1509608,"date":"2022-06-09T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509608"},"modified":"2022-06-09T14:50:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:50:20","slug":"democratic-philly-mayor-wants-to-arrest-man-for-defending-himself-during-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-philly-mayor-wants-to-arrest-man-for-defending-himself-during-mass-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Philly Mayor Wants To Arrest Man for Defending Himself During Mass Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-philly-mayor-wants-to-arrest-man-for-defending-himself-during-mass-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509608&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Mayor&#8217;s call comes even as far-left DA says action was &#8216;self-defense&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tPolice tape blocks off a murder site in Philadelphia \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/robert-schmad\/\" title=\"Posts by Robert Schmad\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Robert Schmad<\/a> \u2022 June 9, 2022 2:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Democratic Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney, who during last year&#8217;s historic crime wave cut police funding,\u00a0wants\u00a0to throw a man in jail for defending himself during a mass shooting, even as the city&#8217;s far-left district attorney admits the man was acting in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/south-street-shooting-kenney-krasner-outlaw-20220608.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> that Gregory Jackson, 34, shot Micah Towns, 23, leading Towns to return fire and kill Jackson. In the melee that followed, a third man, Quran Garner, 18, pulled a gun and began firing into a nearby crowd. While police told the <em>Inquirer<\/em> that &#8220;the precise sequence of the confrontation was unclear&#8221; and that more gunmen might have been involved, the incident left 3 people dead and 12 wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Kenney said during a virtual gun-violence briefing that &#8220;anybody who fired a gun that day should be locked up.&#8221; The mayor said Towns, who remains hospitalized in critical condition, is partially responsible for escalating the shooting because he didn&#8217;t walk away from the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Kenney&#8217;s call to jail Towns comes as mainstream media sources claim that &#8220;a good guy with a gun&#8221; is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/the-report\/articles\/2022-05-27\/uvalde-buffalo-shootings-expose-the-myth-of-the-good-guy-with-a-gun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;a myth&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/how-the-good-guy-with-a-gun-became-a-deadly-american-fantasy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;a deadly American fantasy.&#8221;<\/a> Towns is far from the only armed individual to try to stop a mass shooting, however. Just weeks earlier, an armed off-duty Border Patrol agent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.police1.com\/uvalde-school-shooting\/articles\/off-duty-border-patrol-agent-who-helped-evacuate-uvalde-school-speaks-out-flJ7w0KLXOsHSjBJ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helped<\/a> evacuate Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, during the May 24 mass shooting at the school.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia district attorney\u00a0Larry Krasner (D.), a soft-on-crime prosecutor who has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/report-soros-prosecutors-run-half-of-americas-largest-jurisdictions\/\">received<\/a> more than a million dollars from liberal megadonor George Soros, blasted the mayor&#8217;s words, saying Towns was acting in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Kenney is &#8220;not a cop&#8221; and &#8220;not an attorney,&#8221; a Krasner spokeswoman told the <em>Inquirer<\/em>. &#8220;We cannot invent crimes that don\u2019t exist and facts that aren&#8217;t true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mayor&#8217;s stance on fighting gun crime does not involve providing more resources to law enforcement. As Philadelphia last year saw homicides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/04\/01\/1089406018\/philadelphia-set-a-homicide-record-in-2021-now-police-hope-a-new-tactic-deters-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reach<\/a> an all-time high, Kenney\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/kenneys-proposed-2021-budget-would-cut-taxes-and-raise-spending-but-not-for-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduced<\/a> the police force&#8217;s budget by 2.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Kenney&#8217;s office did not respond to a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Mayor&#8217;s call comes even as far-left DA says action was &#8216;self-defense&#8217;  Police tape blocks off a murder site in Philadelphia \/ Getty Images  Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}