Philly Cops Cracking Down Hard On Singers Of Sam Cooke Songs And Flautists
Should Anthony Riley have listened to the police officer and stopped singing? Of course he should have.
Should the police have handled it differently?
I’ll say.
I respect what the police are up against in this city. But an incident like this makes them look ridiculous.
Oh, and by the way:
When Riley was finally released, he met a man named Felix Welker outside the police station who’d just been released, too.
Welker’s offense? Refusing to stop playing the flute at 18th and Walnut streets.
Well, now that all the Echo & The Bunnymen afterparty flyer-hander-outers have been brought to justice, it only seems logical that the flautists would be next. Oh, and by the way: 99 murders this year so far.
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