Philly Health Commissioner Ousted Over Handling of MOVE Victims' Remains

[Warpy]

5. Today is the 38th anniversary of the bombing

I was in SE Mass and got stations from both Boston and Providence (barring weird atmospheric conditions) and watched a lot of it live. It was bizarre because they were showing this conflagration and the fire department standing around with their thumbs up their asses and doing nothing and with absolutely no context except it was started (!) by a bunch of black radicals in one of the buildings.

Tabloid papers had a little of the background about the group, but not much. The statistics spoke for themselves: out of 6 adults and 7 children in the building, 1 adult and 2 children survived. The cops had bombed a residence in their own city. The fire department had done nothing to put the fire out or try to rescue people in the building. The fire was allowed to grow into a 2 block conflagration that destroyed 60 homes and left 250 people homeless after losing everything. It was appalling. It was overkill by Nixon's newly militarized police and their attitude the US citizens were a foreign population and insurrectionists who had to be kept in line.

I don't care how bonkers they were or how they were pains in the ass. They didn't deserve this.