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SHARK Challenges Bensalem Police after Response from Deputy Director of Public Safety
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DEAR FRIENDS,
In our last update we asked you to contact the Bensalem Police Department and ask why they have allowed the wealthy members of the Philadelphia Gun Club (PGC) to violate the law, including shooting at us when we are on the Delaware River.
Pat Ponticelli, the Deputy Director of Public Safety for the Bensalem Police department, wrote the following to one of our supporters:
Thank you for your concern regarding the reputation of Bensalem Township. However the facts regarding the Philadelphia Gun Club and the animal activists, including Mr. Hindi are much more complex than what you have depicted in your email.
Pat Ponticelli
Deputy Director of Public Safety
Bensalem Township Police Department
2400 Byberry Road
Bensalem, Pa 19020
(215) 633-3725 (Office)
(215) 633-3759 (Fax)
pponticelli@bensalem-township.org
Much more complex? They aim their weapons at us and we get hit by shot. Pretty straight forward. We wrote the following back to Mr. Ponticelli:
Dear Mr. Ponticelli,
Regarding the Philadelphia Gun Club matter, I reviewed your response to --- in which you state:
"Thank you for your concern regarding the reputation of Bensalem Township. However the facts regarding the Philadelphia Gun Club and the animal activists, including Mr. Hindi are much more complex than what you have depicted in your email."
This is not a response - it's just a blowoff. I join --- in requesting a detailed explanation.
For more than two years SHARK personnel have wondered why the Bensalem Police Department refuses to do its job on so many levels. The police allow PGC members to drive on public roads with obscured license plates to avoid identification as they enter and leave club property. The police allow PGC members to use their vehicles to threaten and intimidate protesters. The police allow PGC members to pollute and commit cruelty.
Most particular to this letter, the Bensalem Police Department, with the knowledge of Mayor Joseph DiGirolamo, allows PGC members to hit people legally boating on a public waterway with shotgun discharge.
I am looking forward to your detailed explanation of "much more complex."
Sincerely,
Steve Hindi
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Meet "Chris," one of the PGC thugs who has shot at us
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Mr. Ponticelli hasn't responded back, but we have a right to know what he is talking about. You do too. So let's all ask him, the Mayor and the Director of Public Safety, what exactly he meant and why they still haven't charged anyone for shooting at us.
We've gotten feedback from our members that the Mayors office is simply saying that they can't stop pigeon shoots and then they hang up. This is misdirection on their part. Please focus on the PGC violating the law by firing their weapons at us. They have absolute authority to take action, yet have refused to do so.
Frederick Harran
Director of Public Safety
fharran@bensalem-township.org
Phone: 215-633-3700
Deputy Director of Public Safety Pat Ponticelli
pponticelli@bensalem-township.org
(215) 633-3725 (Office)
(215) 768-5919 (Cell)
Mayor Joseph DiGirolamo
mayorsoffice@bensalem-township.org
215-633-3603, 3604, 3605
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Kindest Regards,
Steve Hindi and Your SHARK Team
"Kindness and compassion towards all living beings is a mark of a civilized society. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bullfighting and rodeos are all cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well ourselves." - Cesar Chavez, civil rights and labor leader, founder of the United Farm Workers
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