![]() ![]() was shot by police officers after having charged at them with a knife. Ironically, the area was not on Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw’s “watch list” after Walter Wallace Jr. The president of a West Philly group representing 3,000 local businesses reflects on the devastation to his community-and the work needed to move forward.Īramingo Avenue is now the city’s “go-to” rioting spot. ![]() Nearby, dozens of rain-soaked sneaker boxes decomposing on the concrete, their contents long emptied out by looters who arrived in the area by the carloads, and who far outnumbered the police. Visible also would be outdoor trash receptacles looking every bit like miniaturized versions of the remains of the Twin Towers after 9/11. In the mini-malls along this mixed shopping district, many “injured” buildings would come into view: a Fine Wine and Good Spirits shop trashed, its ‘spirits’ stolen to further intoxicate the makers of this madness. The visitor would not be wrong, of course.Īnyone who surveyed the damage along Aramingo Avenue in Port Richmond the day after the October riots would have seen ransacked storefronts, shattered glass and piles of stolen and discarded merchandise. There’s every reason to suppose that the visitor would then assume that party A stood for law and order and therefore deserved to win any election, presidential or otherwise. Had Outlaw been looking closely, she would have seen that Aramingo Avenue was one of those powder kegs. ![]() election, he would have seen a devastated landscape of vandalized businesses.Ĭurious about this bleak scenery, the visitor would be told-if anybody were to peek out of their homes or businesses-that it was generated by people who identify with political party B, which is opposed to political party A, or the party in power up for reelection. If the man who fell to earth in the David Bowie science-fiction film 1976 had fallen in real-time onto the 52nd Street corridor in West Philadelphia, or along Aramingo Avenue in the city’s Riverwards neighborhood days before the 2020 U.S. ![]()
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