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“You have to rise above”: TUPD’s Woltemate reflects on 40 years in law enforcement

Summary by The Temple News
Edward Woltemate was a cadet at the Police Academy and Osage Avenue was burning.  It was 1985. The back-to-nature Black liberation sect MOVE, holed up deep in West Philadelphia, had come to the attention of those in power. Philadelphia Police Department officers erected barricades and hoisted heavy weaponry across several blocks of the neighborhood, intent on moving the group’s believers out of the building and into the waiting cuffs of local la…
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The Temple News broke the news in Philadelphia, United States on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
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