Those doing the ransacking were not affiliated with earlier protests, Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford has said, calling those responsible “a bunch of criminal opportunists.”
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Philadelphia interim Police Commissioner John Stanford has insisted that the looting is not connected to protests of a judge’s dismissal this week of all charges against former police officer Mark Dial, who fatally shot knife-wielding city resident Eddie Irizarry last month.
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