Philadelphia Mayor Rejects Calls for National Guard Amid Surge in Murders

Philadelphia Mayor Rejects Calls for National Guard Amid Surge in Murders
Police tape blocks a street where a person was shot in a drug related event in Philadelphia, Pa., on July 19, 2021. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
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Philadelphia’s mayor will not try to bring in the National Guard to help deal with rising crime in the city.

“The National Guard is traditionally not an urban police department. We used the National Guard in the civil unrest period to secure areas that needed to be secured from looting and burning, and it freed up the police to do other things,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney told reporters during a press conference this week.

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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