By Matthew Vadum ——Bio and Archives--December 3, 2016
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Philadelphia deputy city attorney Duncan Lloyd stands accused of supporting vulgar vandalism.
Two men were caught on video walking together to a store. One appears in the video spray-painting “F*** Trump” on an exterior wall of the store.
Lloyd appears in the video with his unidentified companion. While the graffiti is being created, Lloyd stands by drinking wine and taking photos of the man’s handiwork.
No charges have been filed in the case.Assistant City Solicitor – Labor and Employment Unit • City of Philadelphia Law Department • March 2015 – Present (1 year 10 months) • I assist its Labor and Employment Unit. Within this group, I represent the City and its departments in federal and state courts in discrimination lawsuits under Title VII, among others. In addition, I represent the City in agency proceedings that precede lawsuits. I also represent the City in suits before the Civil Service Commission and in grievance arbitrations charged by unions. Last, I represent the City before the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board in unfair labor practice claims and other labor matters. As a result of these responsibilities, I hear the craziest stories – ones regularly driven by the unreasonable mores of lust, anger, passion, and envy. Shouldn’t Philadelphia expect more from a lawyer who represents it? And can a lawyer connected to the malicious destruction of property be trusted to do his job properly?
If the image of an upper-middle class city attorney clad in a blazer and sipping wine while vandalizing an upscale grocery store with an anti-Trump message strikes you as perhaps the most bourgeois sight imaginable, that’s because it is. Nothing can better represent the hysterical pearl-clutching of the “progressive” elite in response to this earth-shattering election, when residents of Chestnut Hill and similar neighborhoods across the country discovered — gasp — that other people have a voice too. The assistant city solicitor in question had ostensibly taken the law into his own hands, since a democratic election didn’t yield his preferred outcome. For somebody with extensive legal training to feel entitled to vandalize a newly opened super-market strikes us at the Philadelphia Republican Party as an astonishing feat of idiocy. Did the extra glass of Shiraz give him some sort of delusional confidence that there are no cameras on Germantown Ave? The taxpayers should be entrusting exactly none of our faith into this man. He should be fired from our city’s law department immediately.So there it is.
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Matthew Vadum, matthewvadum.blogspot.com, is an investigative reporter.
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