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PA Democrat governor refers to widespread looting, rioting, attacks on police and reporters as “peaceful protests”

PA Democrat governor refers to widespread looting, rioting, attacks on police and reporters as “peaceful protests” 1

PHILADELPHIA, PA — President Trump has condemned the widespread rioting and looting in the City of Brotherly Love this week while presidential candidate Joe Biden has remained silent, and Gov. Tom Wolf called the violence “peaceful protests.”

On Tuesday, President Trump said at a campaign rally in West Salem, Wisconsin:

“Last night Philadelphia was torn up by Biden-supporting radicals.

“Biden stands with the rioters, and I stand with the heroes of law enforcement. And you know what, they can do their job very easily, just let them do their job.”

The president has repeatedly called on Biden to denounce the violence in Philadelphia, but the former vice president has still said nothing in two days. On Tuesday, Biden acknowledged a peaceful town far away from Philadelphia and its upheaval by tweeting:

“Home is where your values are set — where your view of the world begins to form, along with your place in it. For me, that’s Scranton, PA. Pennsylvania: today is your last day to vote early in person. We’ve got to win this — let’s bring it home. Vote: iwillvote.com.”

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At the Wisconsin rally, Trump noted:

“He [Biden] declared war on the cops, and it’s not working out too well.”

Trump warned that Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris would create an anti-police environment by appointing anti-police prosecutors in communities around the country:

“It would tie the hands of every police officer in the country.”

Trump also said:

“Biden is soft and weak and too scared to be president. He doesn’t want to be president, let’s face it. There’s a lot of bad body language.”

Trump urged his supporters to come out in force in Wisconsin and help him win the state again:

“We didn’t come this far and fight this hard to surrender our country back to the corrupt Washington swamp.”

As a swing state with 20 electoral votes, both Trump and Biden want to win in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Biden held a 7-point lead over Trump according to a Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll released last Friday and before this week’s rioting.

The poll indicated that Biden drew support from 51% of likely state voters, while 44% support Trump. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 5.5%, which means as low as 45.5% could support Biden and as high as 49.5% could support Trump in a survey of all the state’s registered voters.

However, the criminal rioting and looting in Philadelphia that began on Monday may hurt Biden since he has not condemned any of it thus far.

Protests were initially in response to the fatal shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., who chased retreating police officers with a knife. Police officers gave multiple orders to Wallace to drop the knife, but he continued to chase them around a vehicle and into the street with the weapon extended towards them.

Two police officers were forced to fire at him in self-defense. A responding police officer loaded Wallace into a vehicle and drove him to the hospital, but he later died from his wounds.

Shortly after the shooting, protesters quickly appeared and turned violent in a series of riots that sent more than 30 police officers to the hospital Monday evening, including a 56-year-old female sergeant who was struck by a large black pickup truck that intentionally drove into a line of police, who were attempting to block off a street from rioters.

Police officials say the sergeant sustained a broken leg and “various other injuries,” ABC6 reported. She was reported to be in stable condition Tuesday morning.

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Vehicles were set on fire and looters destroyed stores as they stole non-edible items such as big-screen TVs and clothing.

Black Lives Matter protesters even attacked a reporter who was filming the widespread looting that continued in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening. Elijah Schaffer, a journalist with The Blaze, recorded dozens of masked rioters in the process of looting. Schaffer then became the target of a violent assault as looters demanded he stop filming their criminal activity, with one saying:

“Hey bro, stop recording!”

Pennsylvania’s Gov. Wolf, a Democrat, authorized the National Guard to deploy troops Tuesday to help police protect property and quell unrest in the state’s largest city. On Tuesday, police and protesters clashed again, but officers, aided by National Guardsmen, stopped marchers and made several arrests much earlier in the evening.

Wolf’s most recent tweet was from April 2, 2019, so he had no comments posted about the riots, which some feared was a COVID-19 super-spreader situation.

On Tuesday evening, a racially diverse crowd gathered at Malcolm X park in West Philadelphia, near the neighborhood where Wallace was shot and killed by police on Monday. The group wound through residential streets until their path collided with a line of police officers in riot gear. Protesters chanted directly to the police.

A local middle school math teacher, who is black and was at a protest, was scanning the crowd looking for “agitators,” which he described as generally white people dressed in all black with their faces covered.

Declining to give his last name, Charles M. told a reporter:

“My main reason for being out here is making sure people don’t mess it up. They’re the ones that spray paint, they’re the ones that throw bricks.

“When you talk with them, engage with them, they split.”

On Oct. 27, we reported on Gov. Wolf’s decision to deploy National Guard to Philadelphia. Read our story here.

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