Link: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/24/kfif-f24.html

At least five high school students in Quakertown, located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, have now been held in police custody for more than 72 hours following last Friday’s anti-ICE protest. As of this writing, authorities have not publicly clarified how many students remain detained, what specific charges they face, or why juveniles are being held for this length of time.

Their alleged offense: defending themselves after a police chief, not in uniform, physically assaulted students. The police assault has provoked mass outrage in the community and throughout the country. A Change.org petition demanding the resignation of Quakertown Police Chief Scott McElree, who was captured on video choking a young female student, has exceeded 7,800 signatures as of this writing.

What a shithole.

Those students need to say the words habeous corpus, they need to write those words and mail them to the court, and they need to get their friends and family to press those words onto the courts, the police, and the media, and social media.

If you hold someone, you have to charge them in front of a judge. They will give leeway on a weekend, friday night you might have to wait until monday morning which is bad enough. But going through a work day that the court is in session without honoring habeous corpus is a violation of the Bill of Rights, and should get the case dismissed if they do try to file charges.

This chief needs to be fired, and charged. He sounds like he's refusing to honor the Bill of Rights out of a personal grudge after assaulting them when he was off duty. Clown show.

Why isn't this police chief being publicly hanged like they used to do before with black pe.... Oh wait, the guy is white. Never mind then.

This is the USA, where guys can strangle girls with zero consequences for as long as they are white and carry a badge

forearm position in that capture is about half an inch away from "crush the trachea" compliance and a mile away from "control the head, neck and blood supply" compliance. this is battery with intent to cause severe bodily harm.

What is it with the US and so many people being perfectly okay with your woman being strangled by police just and only because she spoke out and protested?

If in Europe an not uniformed police officer were to pull this shit, strangling a young girl whilst not even being on duty, it would be his last day on the job and his first day in jail. In the US though, all the witnesses (all children) are abducted and threatened and somehow people support this?

And the community? This psychopath just strangled a young girl for not liking her opinion. He's a police chief. Not a police officer, he is a police chief. If I were a police officer I would have arrested the fucker myself, because he's a low life thug criminal.

But this is the USA, so they make psychopaths police chiefs because of course they do. Om just flabbergasted that any of this is even remotely possible, and then trump tells other countries that this, THIS, is what everyone wants?

Get fucked by an umbrella, pigs

I think your issue is that you are perceiving them as government workers. In reality they are violent gangs with the backing of the judiciary system and state representatives.

The entire purpose of police in America has always been to protect property and to oppress minority groups. They are the evolution of slave hunters and mercenary groups like the Pinkertons. The monied class of America just found a way to socialize their monopoly on violence.

Several states have laws where you can be held for X period of time without being formally charged. It sounds like they've exceeded that limit in this case.

A Change.org petition demanding the resignation of Quakertown Police Chief Scott McElree, who was captured on video choking a young female student, has exceeded 7,800 signatures as of this writing.

Why isn’t he in jail?

I'm going to ask a stupider question. Why haven't the parents killed him outright? It's not the smart thing to do but I've seen some parents lose their everloving shit over much smaller stuff than this. It's wild to me that he can do that and not get the hell beat out of him at the least.

Your outrage is both understandable and agreed with but I'm pretty sure most people in the US are NOT ok with this and think he should lose his job and go to jail. And I'm pretty sure there is a larger percentage of people in Europe who WOULD be ok with this behavior than you think.

Unfortunately the majority of people who go into law enforcement seem to be quite authoritarian. They seem to enjoy breaking the law while enforcing their own personal version of it, with impunity. I have lived in Europe but never had an interaction with law enforcement, but I would doubt that they are all angels in Europe. I think it's a matter of degree. Europe has had plenty of experience with fascism. Just because it's America's turn doesn't make Europe immune to it.

Kill this motherfucker

What an embarrassing coward. Bet he gets his bitch ass destroyed by anyone remotely competent he ever trains/rolls with, such weak loser energy on display here.

[Edit: he's panicking and going hard (way too hard) cuz he loses all the time - for his brain it's "hell yeah, finally sinking this choke I've been working on!, damn felt easy this time!" Utterly shameful. Kill this man, he is far, far worse than useless. Give this dude an honorary Uvalde Award, if nothing else.]

Yeah so the issue is that our police have been militarizing and their unions have been persistently dismantling accountability laws since the 80's, using racist propaganda as cover for their actions. Now that it's fully mask-off, it's less, "what's the community going to think about this" and more "what can the community even do about it?"

The white population of this country has not only allowed, but quietly encouraged, the stripping away of every safeguard we have against our police because they never thought it would be used against them. They were told that racial minorities were going to pillage and rape their uncanny white picket suburbs and remote podunk towns any day now, and that the only law enforcement could save them. But only if it was unchained from any sort of safeguards previously installed on it and given the proper tools of pillage.

So, like, we're fucked I think. We have a VERY long and painful road ahead of us if we're going to dismantle all these violent gangs we've embedded in our government.

"Why aren't people reproducing anymore?"

Exhibit

No reproduction for nations that demonstrate such brazen disregard for their own people.

If change.org ran the government maybe that would mean something.

I feel like those online petitions make it easier to stay home instead of showing up outside the police station and demanding change

Also you get a ton of spam

WTF Pennsylvania? What a shithole

Pennsylvania, the state where they arrested a minor Asian Immigrant for self-defence against a racist bully in school and tried to expel him from school

(It's me, I'm that Asian Immigrant)

This was in deep blue Philly btw...

Quakertown fucking sucks

Yeah that'll do it.

This dude needs to be locked up.

A Change.org petition demanding the resignation of Quakertown Police Chief Scott McElree, who was captured on video choking a young female student, has exceeded 7,800 signatures as of this writing.

Oh, yeah I got a feeling this is why we don't see more resistance. Not sure why in light of all that is going on anyone would think a non binding petition ran by a company would be the appropriate response to (in plain view) the head of local law enforcement choking out a child then when the children stop the assault round them all up and disappear them.

Those checks and balances will kick in any day now....

A cop attacking young, impressionable teens who already have a distaste for police authority seems like a great way to get people to like cops.

Yeah, it's in the name like EA

Someone should have nelt on his neck while in that position. Give him the ole George Floyd. Bucks County is such a shit hole county.

I'm from Philly too, and I absolutely believe you. There have been several incidents of bullying over the years that make the news. Just curious, did it happen in South/Southwest philly?

It does seem a futile gesture. Like prayer.

They're not very smart

Schools hate every kid that stands up to bullying. Bullies know they can get away with shit if it's out of eye sight of the teachers who don't really care or even support it, but when a punch gets thrown back, it's suddenly something they can't ignore.

Northeast

Regular people of america have lost nearly all their bargaining power. I certainly do agree, that this petition will do barely anything considering the history with similar scenarios. At this point, it is like holding to a false promise.

Another thing is, let's not infantilize individuals within these situations. They are not a child. And in essence, age has no meaning here, criminal scum like this will assault anyone who opposes them.

Its just sad that the regular people have to live in opression. At this point it doesnt matter what race you are, but if you're a straight up Nazi or not.

dude got beat up by high school students

doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to get him into a guillotine

I'm in Franklin county and I basically can't trust my neighbors or the police in any capacity.

Another thing is, let’s not infantilize individuals within these situations. They are not a child. And in essence, age has no meaning here, criminal scum like this will assault anyone who opposes them.

The young woman in the choke hold is in high school and a child.

Yeah that tracks. I grew up there, NEasties suck.

is in high school

And that makes them a teenager; or if you want to be more broad, a minor.

Individually, they're dumb, out of shape, and, if you've been paying much attention, pretty cowardly. So yes, a single cop is fucking joke. But as a group they're better-armed than many militaries, are legally protected from the VAST majority of their own crimes, and have an insane culture of solidarity not only internally, but with the moneyed class.

You fuck with that loser once and you're inviting a team of violent idiots and a judge to legally fuck with you the rest of your life. You actively defend yourself from that team of violent idiots and a judge in turn, and I am not exaggerating when I say you're inviting a militarized response. There's a reason that so many of our cops can get away with being so mean, dumb, and weak.

What a fucking PIG.

There's a reason they call it Pennsyltucky!

If you embark on the long journey between the Pittsburgh and Philly ends of the state, you get to see a nice assortment of insane religious/conservative billboards and homemade Trump displays.

true

however, you get those things the way things are going anyways, so..

Realistically, our local and federal law enforcement has always been like this. See: Blair Mountain, Black Wall Street, the Jim Crow South, the post-Jim Crow South, any of the L.A. Riots, Ruby Ridge, the entire history of the Texas Rangers, COINTELPRO, Black Lives Matter, or the life and times of J Edgar Hoover, just off the top of my head.

The only difference right now is that we've let it get so out of control that now the average white American are getting caught in the collateral of what is otherwise standard operations. So now it gets treated as unique. But it's the same shit as always, just bigger.

It's so refreshing seeing sane comments, instead of people commenting "well what happened before the video? Why was that girl singled out? What did SHE do?" As if the answer to any of those questions justifies her getting tackled and choked.

Oh yeah California and Oregon is the same. The country actually is a nice place to live too bad education has failed so hard out there

hell yeah, finally sinking this choke I’ve been working on!, damn felt easy this time!”

I can't make any sense of this RNC form. His arms aren't connected at all, his right palm needs to be where the girls left arm is. No hooks, no body triangle. This looks like typical day one BJJ white belt spaz flailing.

Yeah maybe so, I took some liberties.

[Edit: as in, half the scenario I'm describing probably happened a buncha years ago and he's kept his dork coward ass off the mat since lol]