I believe an unlikely mix of alleged drug trafficking related politicos and alleged white nationalist related politicos united to elect the infamous “Bloc of Four” in the abysmal voter turnout election of 2005. During their four year term the drug business was good again and white nationalists used Coatesville as an example on white supremacist websites like “Stormfront”. Strong community organization and support from law enforcement, in particular Chester County District Attorney Joseph W. Carroll has begun to turn our community around. The Chester County drug trafficking that I believe centers on Coatesville continues and I believe we still have public officials in place that profit from the drug sales. But the people here are amazing and continue to work against the odds to make Coatesville a good place to live.
He switched his cellphone from his right hand to his left hand so that he could draw his gun. There is a crashing sound that appears to be Ross colliding with Ms. Good’s vehicle.
Viewed from several angles, you can see that the crashing sound is Ross throwing his cellphone down hard on Ms. Good’s vehicle.
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The Watson family had been trying to find Eric for the past two years, according to Laufer. When they heard the news, they traveled to the police station and apologized for his conduct...
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AP Raw: Man Throws Large Rock at Police Cruiser
“In admiration, I want to commend the action taken by Officer Jared Davis by displaying professionalism beyond the norm in a time when madness seems to be the order of the day, and the lives of the officers in blue are in danger,” Watson Sr. wrote in his letter.
"Davis saw Watson approach him in his rearview mirror before Davis pulled over after driving a short distance. With the violence demonstrated toward Davis, Laufer said the officer could have justifiably used deadly force, but instead he used his judgment and pulled out his Taser – which he did not use.
“Even during the injuring of an officer, the rights of Eric were not breached,” Watson Sr. wrote.
Davis was recently verbally threatened in an unrelated incident.
Police said that Gerome Darnell Gray Jr., 22, of West Chester, allegedly threatened Davis July 9 when he attempted to disperse a group and arrested someone for disorderly conduct. According to the police and the criminal complaint, Gray reportedly said, “Davis, I’m going to f— you up.”
“It is with regret and admiration that I write to your department,” Eric Watson Sr. began his letter.
Police said Officer Jared T. Davis was on patrol in a marked police vehicle when Eric L. Watson, 29, of Coatesville, allegedly threw a large rock at Davis’ vehicle, cracking the front windshield.
Police said during the struggle to get Watson to the ground to take into custody, an officer who assisted was injured.
“The regret is that your Officer (Detective) Joseph Thompson was injured in a confrontation with my son Eric Watson,” said Watson Sr. “I would like to extend my sincere apology to the injured officer, his family and your department at this time.”
Thompson suffered from a fractured sternum. He was treated at Paoli Hospital.
“This apology I also extend to Officer Jared Davis who must have been traumatized by the experience of being attacked by Eric,” Watson Sr. said.
Coatesville police Chief Jack Laufer said when the police hear an apology, it is usually verbal.
“We don’t often get a personal apology from a family member,” Laufer said, including letters.
Both of Eric Watson’s parents apologized in person to police.
Watson Sr. thanked Davis, the Coatesville Police Department officers and the leadership by Laufer for their professionalism during the incident and their assistance afterward.
“In admiration, I want to commend the action taken by Officer Jared Davis by displaying professionalism beyond the norm in a time when madness seem to be the order of the day and the lives of the officers in blue are in danger,” Watson Sr. wrote in his letter.
This incident occurred in the midst of national protests after police shootings in July that killed Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in St. Paul, Minn., both black men. The assault on the Coatesville officer also came after police were killed, three in Baton Rouge and five in Dallas, in addition to those injured.
Laufer said they learned that this incident did not occur as an act of hate toward police. He said the letter showed that. He said when the community read the letter they were reassured of that and it reinforced that it was not a direct attack on law enforcement or the Coatesville police.
“I think it makes the city feel better,” Laufer said. “Was it a violent crime? Yes and he’ll have to answer for his actions. Maybe this will help him to get the help he needs.”
The Watson family had been trying to find Eric for the past two years, according to Laufer. When they heard the news, they traveled to the police station and apologized for his conduct, Laufer said. He informed Thompson, who is home recovering for the next several weeks, about the letter. Thompson told him he appreciated the note.
“They’re a good, solid family with connections to law enforcement and the military,” Laufer said about the Watson family. “Being in law enforcement (the father) appreciated how bad it could have been.”
Davis saw Watson approach him in his rearview mirror before Davis pulled over after driving a short distance. With the violence demonstrated toward Davis, Laufer said the officer could have justifiably used deadly force, but instead he used his judgment and pulled out his Taser – which he did not use.
“Even during the injuring of an officer, the rights of Eric were not breached,” Watson Sr. wrote.”
Coatesville, Pa. (WTXF) The father of a man who allegedly threw a rock at a Coatesville patrol vehicle in July wrote a letter to the police department in which he expressed his sincere apology and commended the officer for his actions.
The incident happened when Officer Jared Davis was on patrol as a male walked off the sidewalk from in front of the library and threw an object, according to police.
Dashcam footage shows the man hitting the vehicle shattering front windshield. Police say Davis was attempting to exit his patrol vehicle when the male allegedly attacked, attempting to strike him in the head with the same rock. Police identified the man as Eric Watson Jr.
Watson's mother drove from North Carolina and his father flew from Jamaica--simply to say sorry.
With permission from the family, the department posted the father's heartfelt letter to Facebook. In the letter, the man's father wrote that he apologized for his son's alleged actions. In addition, he said that he admired the action taken by officer Jared Davis by displaying professionalism beyond the norm.
The City of Coatesville Police Department wrote that they hope that all involved parties see this as an opportunity to move forward in a positive direction.
It turns out, Watson's family with a long history of military and law enforcement hadn't seen him in years until they saw news clips of him last week.
I’m no stranger to being targeted by the MAGA mob—and the neo-Nazis among them. I’ve been doxxed and swatted. A neo-Nazi showed up at my mother’s house to hand-deliver a death threat, and it took over a year to see him convicted of a felony hate crime. Friends and colleagues like Nina Jankowicz have faced harassment not just from online mobs, but from a weaponized federal government—costing them jobs, safety, and peace of mind.
This piece isn’t just about me. It’s about the kind of information warfare that fascist movements rely on to silence dissent, intimidate organizers, and normalize eliminationist violence.
On Christmas Day, Michael Flynn—the disgraced former general who swore an oath to the Constitution and then betrayed it—spent his holiday posting about me on multiple social media platforms. In a Facebook rant full of conspiracy theories and lies, he accused me of being a Marxist, an insurrectionist, and of “stalking” him. (I’ve been his Facebook friends for nearly a decade, and everything I know about him I know because he’s posted it publicly or it’s been publicly reported.) He writes that he personally contacted FBI Director Kash Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to investigate me “fully and without mercy.”
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“Allison Gill of Mueller, She Wrote commented: ‘Had Bari Weiss just ran the story, it would have been seen by a couple million people tops. The bootleg has now gone viral, and may end up being the most-watched 60 Minutes segment ever.”
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“On Sunday the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, Bari Weiss, pulled a 60 Minutes story about the Trump administration’s renditions of migrants to the notorious CECOT terrorist prison in El Salvador just hours before it was scheduled to air. The 60 Minutes story had undergone the normal process of vetting, fact-checking, and legal reviews. In an email to the newsroom, Weiss said she pulled the story, which focused on the torture the prisoners endured, because it did not present the administration’s justification for sending 252 migrants to CECOT.
Weiss took over the top editorship of CBS News in October after Paramount Skydance, owned by Trump loyalist David Ellison, bought her opinion website Free Press for $150 million. Ellison’s Paramount Skydance is currently in the midst of attempting a hostile takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN. Yesterday, billionaire Larry Ellison, David Ellison’s father, personally guaranteed that he would stand behind more than $40 billion in financing required for the deal.
The 60 Minutes correspondent who reported the story, Sharyn Alfonsi, wrote in an email to her colleagues: ‘Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now—after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.’
Alfonsi also noted that the journalists had repeatedly asked for interviews with administration officials, who did not answer. ‘Government silence is a statement,” she wrote, “not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.’
But it turned out that the segment had already been distributed in Canada, and copies of it appeared in the U.S. this afternoon. Legal analyst Asha Rangappa watched it and explained that it “debunks the fundamental claim used by [the] Trump admin[istration] that the detainees it sent there are ‘terrorists’ and corroborates torture using clips from El Salvadorean influencers Bukele uses internally. Would be a shock to low information voters, probably.” Journalist Parker Molloy, who covers the media and culture, observed: “People are going to get to see a totally normal news piece that clearly isn’t biased against Trump and think, ‘She was afraid that THIS would upset the administration??’
Allison Gill of Mueller, She Wrote commented: ‘Had Bari Weiss just ran the story, it would have been seen by a couple million people tops. The bootleg has now gone viral, and may end up being the most-watched 60 Minutes segment ever.”
Four Tibetan Monks and a Tibetan American man traveled by bicycle from Chicago to New York City to address the United Nations concerning the Dalai Lama and Bhutan.
Eric Collins had been following the Tibetan Monks and their concern about the Dalai Lama.
Sorry, I can’t remember names. If anyone has more information, repost with your information.
Above is the American citizen born in Tibet who addressed the United Nations, speaking with Eric Collins. Again, I can’t remember his name. I do remember he was killed in a bicycle accident a few years later.
Eric called me and told me how to contact the Monks. I used a Blackberry to track their location, but I don’t remember the app I used. They arrived on a Friday evening. I think it was in June of maybe 2006.
This is the truck that was their support vehicle.
I notified a Daily Local News photographer, who found them in the West End of Coatesville.
I emailed Jean Krack, then the city manager of the City of Coatesville. It was raining, and the only dry place I could think of was the lobby of Coatesville City Hall. The 4 wet Monks and several wet support people crammed into the lobby of Coatesville City Hall. Jean came out and said, “Guess I should have opened your emails.”
They usually stay at a church. Eric and me called but couldn’t find a church hall available on short notice.
Eric said they can stay at our house.
The monks needed ginger for tea. I used frozen ginger at the time. I’ve since learned there’s no reason to freeze it.
I use fresh ginger every day. I have vertigo from Meniere’s disease, and ginger helps with vertigo.
I brought my ginger to Eric’s home. Eric lived in a Craftsman-style home on Walnut Street in Coatesville. It has an open floor plan.
At least 14 pairs of shoes were lined up in the foyer of the Collins’ home.
The monks discussed the frozen ginger and quickly decided to cut it into small chunks and boil them.
Something similar is happening now:
“Nearly two dozen Buddhists Monks and their loyal dog Aloka are on a 120-day, 2,300-mile “Walk for Peace”. They awoke to the coldest day of the walk at 21° this morning. But the cold is not stopping them, they are heading eastward out of Meridian, MS this morning on U.S. Highway 80. They are expected to cross into Alabama later today and walk across Sumter, Marengo, Greene and Perry counties in West Alabama as they travel to the nation’s capital.
The venerable monks have made several stops on their trek between Fort Worth, TX and Washington D.C. to address crowds and are expected to do so in Alabama as well. Their mission is to promote peace, unity and kindness. They left Oct. 26 from their Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center in Fort Worth with a completion date of sometime in February in D.C.
The monks say their mission is to support a suffering society and promote healing worldwide. “We walk not in protest, but to remind Americans that peace is not a destination. It is a practice. And that peace resides within each of us,” Bhikkhu Pannakara, spiritual leader of the Walk for Peace, wrote on the group’s Facebook page.
“The walk is a reminder that unity and kindness begin within each of us and can radiate outward to communities, families and society as a whole,” he said.”
“MEMORANDUM FOR ALL FEDERAL PROSECUTORS LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, GRANT-MAKING COMPONENTS by AG Pam Bondi appears to be A TRANSLATION FROM GERMAN NAZI SS AND GESTAPO DOCUMENTS.
“Ken Harbaugh breaks down a newly leaked DOJ memo that dramatically expands the definition of “domestic terrorism,” sweeping up protest groups and potentially even media voices like his own. He speaks with Kris Goldsmith, president of Veterans Fighting Fascism, about what this policy could mean for activists, veterans, and anyone who challenges the Trump administration.”
Coatesville, PA, is a mostly Democratic City. The first election I remember was Adlai Stevenson vs General Eisenhower. Of course, General Eisenhower won. I believe most voters in Coatesville, Republican and Democrat, voted for General Eisenhower.
My male teachers in public school were WWII veterans or Korean War veterans. I played army with my friends. The bad guys were Nazis. The good guys were Antifa. Anti-Fascists like my Uncle Fred:
Trump is dishonoring my Uncle Fred and all the U.S. Army soldiers who fought the Fascists in World War II.
My Uncle Fred was a U.S. Army Combat Engineer. He landed not on D-Day but on June 7, 1944 the day after D-Day to clear a path for tanks through minefields and hedgerows. (As he told my son.) - Dec. 18, 2025
Combat Engineers were demolition teams that cleared paths for troops, tanks & supplies through minefields, destroyed fortifications & bridges.
He would have placed Bangalore Torpedoes.
In the film “Saving Private Ryan,” a call is made to “bring up the Bangalores.”
Germany was hit hardest by the Great Depression. Germans were unemployed and starving.
I knew several men who fought in the Wehrmacht. They said Hitler was a bad man, he murdered Jews and blamed Germany’s problems on Jews, but he put people back to work.
Trump began with a functional economy. He is deliberately creating a second Great Depression and blaming brown immigrants for a depression he caused. Like Hitler did with Jews and people who opposed him, Trump is putting brown people and people who oppose him into concentration camps.
Trump takes jobs away from people and creates high prices to create desperate Americans looking for a strong leader. That leader, of course, is Trump.
Are dying Democrats the method in the madness of the Trump Administration’s destruction of public health? Poor people who might vote against Republicans are most likely to die in a pandemic. Dead Democrats can’t vote.
Trump is a bad man who calls himself a Fascist. SEE Trump interrupts question about Mamdani calling him a fascist:
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the Trump criminal organization in the White House intends to arrest Democratic candidates and all people opposed to Donald Trump. We need to oppose Trump’s destruction of democracy in every way that we can.
And Trump is dishonoring my Uncle Fred and all the U.S. Army who fought the Fascists.
The Trump Administration dishonors people on the home front who built the weapons and watched American Tankers torpedoed by German U-boats from the Atlantic City Boardwalk. And people like my Mom who put up blackout curtains. My Dad, who made the armor for Navy ships at Lukens Steel Company.
