{"id":86286,"date":"2025-07-23T15:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/86286\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:49:09","slug":"philadelphia-man-arrested-in-connection-with-viral-video-showing-him-assaulting-multiple-unhoused-people-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/86286\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia man arrested in connection with viral video showing him assaulting multiple unhoused people, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has been arrested after social media video showed him assaulting multiple unhoused people in Philadelphia, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to police, 27-year-old Naeem Morgan was caught on video yelling and assaulting six unhoused people in Center City on July 4.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

District Attorney Larry Krasner and Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel are expected to provide further details in the incident at 11:45 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During their investigation, police recovered additional video from the area and identified Morgan as the man seen on the footage.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Morgan was arrested on Monday, July 21.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

He was charged with possessing instruments of crime, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, disorderly conduct and harassment.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stephanie Ballesteros<\/a><\/p>\n

Stephanie Ballesteros is a digital managing editor at CBS Philadelphia. Before Stephanie joined the CBS Philadelphia team in February 2017, she wrote for WSVN in Miami, WAVY in Norfolk and FOX 29 in Philadelphia. Stephanie covers breaking news, crime and lifestyle content. She also produces content for the CBS Philadelphia social media pages and streaming platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after social media video showed him assaulting multiple unhoused people in Philadelphia, police…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,10762,4219,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-86286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-assault","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114903342397008572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}