Hoefling, a guru who for years showed Philly’s greatest athletes how to win, has a life story that reads like a Hollywood script, and he’s not done adding to it.
This year, the neighborhood blasts seem louder and more frequent, adding to the one-two punch of pandemic fears and the anguish following the police killing of George Floyd.
Ryan Pownall, an ex-Philly cop, was charged in 2018 with murdering David Jones. Fallout from that case could still be felt during last week’s George Floyd protests.
The harrowing images of Monday’s showdown on the Vine Street Expressway — and questions about why city and state police put on such a display of force — have become central to the debate over Philadelphia’s handling of the unrest following George Floyd’s death.
It came as no surprise that years of unresolved racial tensions spilled into chaos on Saturday -- or that the statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo served as the backdrop.
