Four Philadelphia Police officers are recovering in the hospital after breaking up an illegal car meetup late Saturday night.
Inspector D F Pace said that just before midnight, officers were called to the Target shopping center on the 4000 block of Monument Road in the city’s Wynnefield Heights neighborhood after getting reports that numerous cars were drag racing and doing donuts.
Pace said police began to disperse the cars when several vehicles began driving in a reckless manner in various directions. Pace said officers tried to contain and stop as many cars as they could, but the vehicles started taking off at an “extremely high rate of speed.”…