July 29, 2010
Philadelphia, PA--"Pat's Cafe, a tiny corner bar in the Lower Northeast, is regarded as something of a sacred space by local residents and men and women in blue.
It is the place where Officer Gary Skerski, a beloved community-relations cop, lost his life when he interrupted an armed robbery on a warm spring night four years ago. An old wreath, a pair of decaying roses and a few small candles still mark the spot outside the bar, at Castor Avenue and Arrott Street, where Skerski was gunned down.
Imagine, then, how cops and locals felt yesterday when word spread that an on-duty police officer stole money from the bar's safe early Tuesday, law-enforcement sources said..." read more
From Philadelphia Daily News, and by David Gambacorta.
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