{"id":126165,"date":"2026-02-28T17:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126165\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:14:06","slug":"quakertown-police-chief-on-leave-after-chokehold-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126165\/","title":{"rendered":"Quakertown police chief on leave after chokehold video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly\u2019s suburbs do you want WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Quakertown Police Chief Scott McElree is on leave after he was seen on video placing a student in a chokehold during a high school walkout earlier this month.\n<\/p>\n<p>Borough Solicitor Peter Nelson <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/quakertown-police-chief-scott-mcelree-leave-amid-protest-investigation\/18659884\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told 6abc<\/a> and other outlets Friday that McElree, who also serves as the borough manager, is currently on workers\u2019 compensation leave. A request for comment from Nelson was not immediately returned Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Bucks County District Attorney\u2019s Office is <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/bucks-county-district-attorney-investigation-quakertown-police-student-ice-protest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">currently investigating<\/a> the police department\u2019s response to a student-led protest against the Trump administration federal enforcement actions on Feb. 20.\n  <\/p>\n<p>After more than 30 students walked out of Bucks County\u2019s Quakertown Community High School, a violent confrontation with Quakertown officers saw at least five students arrested. The students have since been charged with aggravated assault, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/quakertown-students-arrested-police-chief-20260224.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police claim that students threw snowballs at the responding officers on the scene and kicked their cars.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly\u2019s suburbs do you want WHYY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[197,28,30,29,5758],"class_list":{"0":"post-126165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-bucks-county","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","11":"tag-pennsylvania-news","12":"tag-quakertown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}