BREAKING NEWS – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Penn.) was carjacked at gunpoint in Philadelphia on as crime continues to surge in major cities across the country.
“Wednesday afternoon, at around 2:45 p.m., Congresswoman Scanlon was carjacked at gunpoint in FDR Park following a meeting at that location,” Scanlon’s office said in a statement. The Congresswoman was physically unharmed.
Scanlon was not the first prominent Democratic official to be carjacked in a crime-ridden city in the last 24 hours. Last night, Illinois’ Democratic state Senate majority leader Sen. Kimberly Lightford and her husband were carjacked in Chicago, where crime has been surging.
In a video conference call, both women said they are more committed to defunding the police as ever. They agreed that if the police were doing their job, neither of them would’ve gotten carjacked. Thus (Scanlon and Lightford concluded) “We should abolish all law enforcement nationwide, because taxpayer dollars should not be squandered on an agency that is clearly not doing their job. We also believe that the fewer the cops, the fewer the carjackings… we think.”