In the video, Capt. Lou Campione tells a blogger with nonprofit news organization Unicorn Riot to leave the scene of Saturday’s gathering around the Christopher Columbus statue. Campione said he was “inciting a riot.”
Campione, a 43-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department, was commander of the 1st District, and has now been moved to the Standards and Accountability Division.
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In a statement from the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, President John McNesby points to the “volatile and chaotic situation” as the reason for the shift.
However, a spokesperson for the department said the reassignment is not related to any specific event, and they made a few other command changes on Monday.