He also said that based on their investigation, officers made two stops at Surrey Lane and Overbrook Parkway in Penn Wynne at 11 a.m. 28, stating there were no reports of any teens being stopped and denied that the shovelers were racially profiled. Lower Merion Police Superintendent Michael McGrath first spoke to NBC10 back on Jan. I think it was just a superficial excuse.” I know we live in a really heated climate right now. Saldana also told NBC10 she didn’t buy the officers’ explanation. NBC10 is upgrading its signal: Here's what you need to know I wonder if the same would have happened it if was white kids shoveling?” “We paid the kids and they were okay, a little shaken up. “The cops came to the door to tell my father that from now on, 'anyone' shoveling in Lower Merion, except if it’s your own property, needs a permit from the township, a $50 permit that has to be valid if they check,” Saldana wrote. The shovelers then went back to work after 20 minutes, according to Saldana. Saldana said her father went to check to see what was going on and was told by the officers they were conducting an investigation. They just had shovels sitting to the side.” “It just seemed wrong to have them sitting there,” she said. “These were 'African American' kids (one is actually Haitian), that have come to our house and shoveled before.”Īs they were shoveling, Saldana said two police officers stopped them behind her home and ran background checks on them while they sat outside in the cold. “We hired two kids to shovel our sidewalk,” Saldana wrote. 27 in the Facebook group Lower Merion Community Network. Lower Merion Police released a detailed response Wednesday to a woman's suggestion last month that shovelers she hired to work on her sidewalk were racially profiled.ĭeborah Saldana of Penn Wynne, Pa., first shared her story Jan.
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