We reported on Tuesday evening that Steve Keeley of Fox 29 News posted the photos released by the Philadelphia Police Department of two of the suspects in the mass shooting on the 1500 block of Etting Street at 4:38 PM EDT. We also pointed out that The Philadelphia Inquirer, a newspaper which has earned twenty Pulitzer Prizes and is the supposed newspaper of record for the metropolitan area, had no story at all on the information released by the police.
Finally, almost a day later, the newspaper covered the story:
Police seek public’s help identifying two suspects in Grays Ferry shooting that left 3 dead, 9 injured
As many as six people are suspected to have opened fire in the shooting at Grays Ferry over the Fourth of July weekend, police said.
by Rodrigo Torrejón | Wednesday, July 16, 2025 | 3:05 PM EDT
Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying two people who they say opened fire in a shooting at a block party in Grays Ferry earlier this month that left three people dead and nine injured.
As investigators work to determine the motive for the shooting, in which more than 100 shots rang out on the 1500 block of South Etting Street, they released images of two young men who police believe were among as many as six shooters.
The images were taken from surveillance footage from a store in the area of the shooting, said Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore, who asked that anyone with information about the suspects’ whereabouts contact police.
Perhaps the police are “seeking the public’s help,” but the sure aren’t going to get any help from the Inquirer! Here’s the description given readers by the newspaper:
Both are believed to be in their late teens to early 20s, police said.
One has a thin build and sideburns and is wearing a gray head covering, a black jacket, a white T-shirt, and black track pants, and is carrying an Under Armour brand backpack.
The other, also with a thin build, has dark hair, is wearing a white shirt and black track pants, and is carrying a black Nike backpack with a silver bubble pattern along the straps. At the time of the shooting, he was believed to have been wearing a black shirt, police said.
Publisher Elizabeth Hughes decreed, back in 2021, that the newspaper would be an “antiracist news organization,” so naturally the Inky wouldn’t tell readers that the suspects are black, even though the shooting was on a mostly black street in a heavily black neighborhood, and that the photos of the most prominent victim, Azir Harris, showed that he was black. Most people the least bit familiar with Philly are simply going to assume that the suspects are black, so that “antiracist news organization” isn’t fooling anyone. And, of course, the newspaper did not publish the photos the police released. Yet Miss Hughes also told us, in March of 2020:
Providing the public with news that is accurate and timely is the standard we set for ourselves — every day. The unfolding public health crisis over the coronavirus does not alter this core mission. It just makes it ever more critical.
We are committed to producing reliable, dispassionate, relevant news and information about the virus and its impact on our community. Every part of our organization is contributing to the effort, and every day our journalists gain insights and expertise that will continue to drive our reporting and inform you, our audience.
Apparently, it was only concerning COVID-19 that the publisher’s commitment “to producing reliable, dispassionate, relevant news and information about the virus and its impact on our community” was intended, because the newspaper has been steadily censoring any news Miss Hughes and the editors find politically incorrect.
Reporter Rodrigo Torrejón, who “cover(s) crime and courts in the Philadelphia region, with a focus on breaking news and speaking directly to those in the community most affected by it,” concluded his article with this:
Police ask anyone with information to call the department’s homicide unit at 215-686-3334 or to submit an anonymous tip by calling 215-686-8477.
The city is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and a conviction for each homicide, police said.
Mr Torrejón’s article certainly doesn’t help those “in the community most affected by (crime),” but perhaps he is restricted by his editors. A description of being young and thin, with clothes they can discard, only fits a few hundred thousand of young men in the City of Brotherly Love, and clearly does not help either the communities most affected by crime, or the Philadelphia Police, or readers of the Inky to get these killers off the streets.
The subscription ad shown at the right was on the article cited above, but I have to ask: why should anyone pay good money for a newspaper, even one as storied as The Philadelphia Inquirer, if they are going to censor the news when it’s politically incorrect?
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Author: Dana Pico
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