Daily News | Two police officers shot on the Ben Franklin Parkway amid Philadelphia’s July 4th celebrations
Two police officers were shot and injured in front of the Philadelphia Art Museum while on duty at the city’s Independence Day celebrations on Monday night. The incident caused stampedes of people watching fireworks on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to flee what they believed was an active shooting.
The fireworks show had just begun above the Art Museum. Reports of a shooting spread through the crowd, and people began running down the Parkway, trying to flee. Many others were uncertain, and people milled about before a second stampede began. A police officer told people to run, recounted Irem Ozdemir, 24, an au pair from Turkey living in Haddonfield. She and her friends weren’t sure what was happening at first.
“The weather was beautiful, the concert was beautiful, but we live in America and we have the Second Amendment and we have the Supreme Court of the United States telling everybody they can carry a gun wherever they want,” Kenney said when asked by a reporter about people being afraid to come to Philadelphia for events, referring to last week’s Supreme Court decision that struck down a New York law that limited the public carry of guns.
“It is miraculous, the fact that the round stopped in his hat,” Outlaw said. “It initially went up inside, hit his forehead, and then the round stopped in his hat.”
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