That Mayor Jim Kenney (D-Philadelphia) checked out of his job a year ago is well known.
Frustrated and beaten down, Mayor Jim Kenney quit on the city of Philadelphia late Monday night.
After yet another shooting — this time involving two police officers shot during the July Fourth celebration on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway — Kenney, in a moment of candor, said: “I’ll be happy when I’m not here — when I’m not mayor, and I can enjoy some stuff.”
A reporter followed up, asking: “You’re looking forward to not being mayor?”
Kenney added: “Yeah, as a matter of fact.”
You’d think that with an estimated net worth of $18.6 million, he could have afforded to resign his job, and $240,000 salary, and let someone else take the reins of our nation’s sixth-largest city if he hated the job so much, but he hasn’t done that.
Saturday night was not a good night in the City of Brotherly Love:
Teen killed after street racing chaos, police-involved shooting in Philadelphia
At the scene, troopers found a large group of cars doing “burnouts” and “drifting.”
by 6ABC Digital Staff | Sunday, June 4, 2023 | 3:33 PM EDT
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Overnight street racing chaos involving hundreds of drivers in Philadelphia led to a deadly police-involved shooting on Sunday.
Investigators say it began when over 300 cars gathered at Bustleton and Philmont avenues in the city’s Bustleton section around 1 a.m. Sunday.
One of the drivers struck a responding police vehicle.
Not long after, police responded to another incident involving the same group of drivers that shut down a portion of I-95 in Society Hill.
As of 4:05 PM EDT on Sunday, June 4th, there isn’t a single story on that on The Philadelphia Inquirer’s website main page, or the newspaper’s specific crime page, though both contain several stories that are two and three days old. We have embedded the WPVI-TV report, in this article, below the fold.
Mayor Kenney was out of town on Saturday, watching the Phillies play the Washington Nationals in DC. But he did issue a strongly, strongly! worded tweet! The Mayor said:
This type of reckless and aggressive behavior cannot and will not be tolerated.
Really? If this behavior “cannot and will not be tolerated,” what is Mr Kenney actually going to do about it? You see, if he is going to issue a statement like that, he needs to tell the public just what Commissioner Danielle Outlaw and the Philadelphia Police Department are going to do to stop that stuff, and what will happen to those caught doing it again.
And even if the Police arrest a bunch of people trying it again — and Mr Kenney has practically issued a personal challenge to the perpetrators to do it again — can anyone have any confidence that the George Soros-sponsored, police-hating defense mouthpiece serving as Philadelphia’s District Attorney, Larry Krasner, an independently-elected public official who is not subject to Mr Kenney’s orders, would give suspects anything more than a not-very-hard slap on the wrist?
The Mayor’s words, the Mayor’s threats, are empty words and empty threats. Don’t think that the kids — and the perpetrators are most probably teenagers and young twenty-somethings — don’t realize that.