We have previously noted the shooting of two Philadelphia police officers, one of whom, officer Shane Seiber, died from his wounds.
The apprehended suspect, Eric Lewis, had a previous criminal record, but all misdemeanors, which did not prohibit from owning a firearm. Then came the later news: Mr Lewis had previously been charged with murder, but was acquitted, and the city’s George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, was quick to blame the Philadelphia Police Department for the failed prosecution.
Philly police commissioner blasts DA Krasner, calls comments over alleged cop killer’s past acquittal ‘unacceptable’
Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said the public finger-pointing in the aftermath of Officer Shane Seiber’s death was “absolutely unacceptable.”
by Ellie Rushing | Thursday, October 22, 2026 | 3:22 PM EDTPolice Commissioner Kevin J. Bethel on Thursday said it was “absolutely unacceptable” for District Attorney Larry Krasner to have effectively blamed two police officers for sinking a prior murder case against the man now accused of fatally shooting Officer Shane Seiber.
At a news conference Thursday alongside U.S. Attorney David Metcalf and other federal law enforcement partners, Bethel addressed Eric Lewis’ prior acquittal for the first time, condemning what he described as finger-pointing while the city’s law enforcement community was reeling from Seiber’s death.
Bethel did not directly name Krasner, but his remarks appeared aimed squarely at the city’s top prosecutor, who last week released a YouTube video criticizing the conduct of a police officer and a homicide detective involved in Lewis’ earlier murder case and calling their behavior “arguably criminal.”
Krasner said his prosecutors “did everything humanly possible” to convict Lewis, and insinuated not only that it was the officers’ fault Lewis was later acquitted, but also that their misconduct left Lewis free to kill Seiber, 40, and seriously wound Officer Hector Rodriguez III years later.
There’s more at the original, but when listening to Mr Krasner, you must remember, to paraphrase Mary McCarthy, “Every word he says is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”
A lot of bandwidth has been expended discussing Mr Krasner and his minions when it comes to the death of Officer Seiber, but this site noted, on January 12, 2021, their contribution to the murder of Corporal James O’Connor IV, by the lenient treatment of Hasan Elliot.
One of the people who should have already been in jail but wasn’t Friday, March 13, 2020, was Hasan Elliot, 21. How did the District Attorney’s office treat Mr Elliot, a known gang-banger?
- Mr Elliott, then 18 years old, was arrested in June 2017 on gun- and drug-possession charges stemming after threatening a neighbor with a firearm. The District Attorney’s office granted him a plea bargain arrangement on January 24, 2018, and he was sentenced to 9 to 23 months in jail, followed by three years’ probation. However, he was paroled earlier than that, after seven months in jail.
- Mr Elliot soon violated parole by failing drug tests and failing to mate his meetings with his parole officer.
- Mr Elliott was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine on January 29, 2019. This was another parole violation, but Mr Krasner’s office did not attempt to have Mr Elliot returned to jail to finish his sentence, nor make any attempts to get serious bail on the new charges;he was released on his own recognizance.
- After Mr Elliot failed to appear for his scheduled drug-possession trial on March 27, 2019, and prosecutors dropped those charges against him.
Philadelphia Police Officers and FOP members block District Attorney Larry Krasner from entering the hospital to meet with slain Police Corporal James O’Connor’s family.
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 President John McNesby also has criticized Krasner, saying his policies led to the killing of O’Connor. “Unfortunately, he’s murdered by somebody that should have never been on the street,” McNesby said.
McNesby also said FOP members and police officers formed a human barricade to block Krasner from entering the hospital Friday to see O’Connor’s family.
In reporter Ellie Rushing’s article on Thursday, she wrote:
The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 also issued a statement Thursday condemning Krasner’s statements — a similarly marked shift for union president Roosevelt Poplar, who has largely displayed a friendly relationship with Krasner, in stark contrast to his predecessor, John McNesby.
“It is disgraceful that District Attorney Krasner would use the murder of a Philadelphia police officer as an opportunity to deflect responsibility and scapegoat the very officers who put their lives on the line every day to protect this city,” the union wrote.
Krasner, the union said, “misrepresented the facts” of the prior case and “chose to spread misinformation, assign blame, and attack the Philadelphia Police Department” in the immediate aftermath of an officer’s slaying.
Apparently Mr McNesby was right all along, and Mr Poplar has now found out that his “friendly relationship” with Mr Krasner has yielded nothing more than a knife in the back.
Even The Philadelphia Inquirer, which has been very supportive of the District Attorney and his ‘progressive’ policies, has finally stopped treating him with kid gloves, and Miss Rushing and others at the newspaper have been reporting on his legal woes and the chaos in his office.
We have frequently refered to Mr Krasner as “criminal-loving,” but it turns out that he might just be a criminal himself.