With the challenge to a package of Philadelphia gun control laws spinning through the courts, and a violent arrest captured-on-TV causing controversy, a State Representative says the two cases profoundly affect one another.
Representative W. Curtis Thomas of North Philadelphia says the violent arrest caught by a TV helicopter is a black mark for police and he supports the Commissioner's firings and other discipline. But he regrets that the hue and cry that has separated citizens and police who may otherwise have been allies trying to ban weapons like the one that killed Sgt. Steven Liczbinski:
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