Overview
- Residents packed Borough Hall demanding Chief Scott McElree be fired, with only one speaker voicing support for him.
- The Bucks County District Attorney is conducting an independent investigation, and the Pennsylvania attorney general declined to take over.
- McElree, 72, also serves as borough manager and is on workers’ compensation leave following the encounter.
- Five students known locally as the “Quakertown Five” face felony aggravated assault charges and remain on house arrest with ankle monitors, with attorneys saying some spent multiple nights in custody.
- Bystander video shows the chief grappling with teens and wrapping an arm around a girl’s neck, while the affidavit cites alleged blows to the chief and does not mention a chokehold.