Newly obtained police reports give Quakertown Police Chief Scott McElree’s version of what happened during when a student protest turned violent when he arrived on scene last month He denies he placed a student in a chokehold and that he didn’t identify himself as a police officer.
His account is contained among a 40-page report that provides the most complete police account, so far, of what happened before, during and after, the Feb. 20 incident, when at least 30 students left Quakertown Community High School after an on-campus ICE demonstration was canceled.
In the chief’s 14-page supplemental report, McElree alleged he identified himself as a police officer multiple times to student protesters including once when they approached his unmarked SUV at a red light and he told them to stay out of the street…