Concerns over allegations of excessive police force on February 20 when a Quakertown high school student walkout protesting ICE turned violent, including the local chief of police putting a girl in a chokehold, have local parents and citizens still looking for answers.
Upper Bucks United, a grassroots organization serving Palisades, Pennridge and Quakertown school districts, is calling on concerned residents and members to attend a Quakertown borough council work session Monday night.
The group is asking residents to voice “serious concerns about the integrity and independence of a review conducted” by the Police Chiefs Association of Bucks County into 72-year-old Quakertown Borough Manager and Police Chief Scott McElree’s alleged assault of a 15-year-old high school student and the overall local police response that day…