Robert Stacy McCain updated a story on which we had previously reported. He let me know about his update via Twitter!
‘A Philadelphia Gentleman’s Club’
cc @Dana_TFSJ https://t.co/QXBCnZ825P— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 1, 2022
‘A Philadelphia Gentleman’s Club’
by Robert Stacy McCain | January 1, 2022
These two Philadelphia gentlemen are suspects.
Authorities have identified two suspects wanted in a double homicide that happened outside a Philadelphia gentlemen’s club on Tuesday.
Investigators say a 32-year-old man and a 42-year-old man suffered fatal gunshot wounds when an argument turned deadly in the parking lot of Club Risqué on Tacony Street around 2:30 a.m.
(Because where else would a Philadelphia gentleman be at 2:30 a.m.?)
At least The Philadelphia Inquirer was direct enough to call it a “strip club”.
Surveillance footage shared by the Philadelphia Police Department shows the suspected shooter and a female person of interest arriving at the club in a black Nissan about an hour before the shooting.
(A “female person of interest” is what they call a “lady” in Philadelphia.)
The suspect, who police say walks with a distinct limp, was wearing a blue coat and denim pants with dark-colored boots at the time of the shooting. The woman passenger labeled by police as a person of interest was wearing a white shirt with tan pants and white shoes.
Security footage from inside the vestibule of the club shows a second suspect also wearing a blue winter coat over a blue hooded sweatshirt.
There’s more at Mr McCain’s original.
Weather records for Tuesday, December 28th, indicate that it was 45º F, with light winds, and no precipitation at the time, as recorded at the Philadelphia International Airport. Why would a hooded sweatshirt and a winter coat be needed in those conditions?
Mr McCain congratulated me on the new record, but I have to be honest: I started getting morbidly interested in this in 2020, as the city kept ever closer to the record of 500 set during the crack cocaine wars of 1990, and at one point, which I noted here, the police reported 502 for 2020, setting a new record.
Then it was ‘adjusted,’ to 499. It could have been that the killings happened after midnight on December 31, 2020, and were properly assigned to 2021, but that seemed pretty ‘convenient’ to me, as a way for Mayor Jim Kenney, George Soros-stooge District Attorney Larry Krasner, and Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw to say, well, it wasn’t the worst year. Since the appropriately named Miss Outlaw’s Police Department is the one which releases the official figures, she would have direct authority over that report, if she chose to exercise it. I have no evidence of that, and it’s pure speculation on my part, but I don’t think it’s an unreasonable guess. I just regret that I didn’t do a screen capture of the 502 report when it came out. That was my mistake, and I won’t make it again.
Maybe they hoped that the killing would decrease, and three murders from 2020 would get lost in a 2021 with a decrease in homicide.
Good plan, huh?
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Update: 450 PM EST
Screen capture from Philadelphia Police Department, at 4:44 PM EST on January 1, 2022. Click to enlarge.