Anti-police graffiti chalked beneath mural for fallen cops
Activists chalked anti-police graffiti beneath a mural memorializing officers who died on duty in Philadelphia.
Fallout from the controversial fatal police shooting of Brandon Tate-Brown continued in an unexpected place last week - beneath a mural memorializing fallen officers outside Olney's 35th police district.
Slogans like "DA PIG PEN" and "F**K CHUCK," an apparent reference to police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, were chalked on the sidewalks and brick walls early last Wednesday beside a mural honoring Chuck Cassidy, Walter Barclay and Bob Hayes, officers gunned down while on duty. Activists with the group Philly Coalition for R.E.A.L. (Racial, Economic And Legal) Justice were outside the district at the time, holding a solidarity rally for an activist inside who SEPTA police had arrested earlier. The group took credit for the chalkings in an online Flickr page.