Philadelphia police officers were harassed by a crowd gathered on the street during the long standoff with an illegally armed man who shot six officers, according to a reporter on the scene and recorded on video.
Local residents, some unable to return home, mixed with officers behind cordons on Aug. 14 during the eight-hour incident during which gunfire rattled up and down the streets of Nicetown-Tiago, before the gunman, who had taken two hostages, finally surrendered unharmed.