Some residents in the Philadelphia suburb of Quakertown are calling for the police chief to resign after a scuffle between police and high school students protesting immigration enforcement policies left several juveniles in custody for four days.
Video circulating online shows an older man in street clothes approach a group of young protesters outside a delicatessen and put his arm around the neck of a teenage girl as other teens swing at him and they both fall to the ground. The American Civil Liberties Union and others identified the man as 72-year-old Police Chief Scott McElree, who also serves as borough manager.
Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan, a former federal prosecutor, is investigating. McElree did not return messages left Tuesday by The Associated Press at his home and workplace…