{"id":218762,"date":"2026-06-14T05:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T05:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218762\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T05:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T05:39:13","slug":"chaine-jordan-traffic-stop-lower-merion-residents-push-for-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218762\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaine Jordan traffic stop: Lower Merion residents push for investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The department\u2019s investigation found that the responding officer\u2019s primary body camera was not properly logged, meaning more than two minutes of the incident\u2019s recording doesn\u2019t contain audio from his device.<\/p>\n<p>During a nearly two-hour-long period for public comment, many speakers called for an independent investigation, including members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/mainlinenaacp\/home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NAACP Main Line Branch Unit 2270<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s president, Brian Reese-Turner, said Jordan\u2019s civil rights were violated and wants to see an unedited video of the incident to get the full picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re post-George Floyd,\u201d Reese-Turner said. \u201cAnd I think anybody in this community has to recognize what that means when anybody is in that type of situation and the level of stress that they\u2019re under.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Narberth resident Kim Lipetz said via Zoom that the incident isn\u2019t just a policing issue, but a cultural and community issue. She criticized the police department\u2019s presentation, saying it placed Jordan in a bad light, calling it \u201csalt in the wound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way in which it went over and over again, \u2018Well, the gun was drawn, but it was by his side.\u2019 He had a gun drawn for tailgating,\u201d Lipetz said.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan is charged with resisting arrest, fleeing an officer, driving with a suspended license, and drug charges after <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/lower-merion-pa-police-traffic-stop-woman-taser-video-chaine-jordan-arrested\/12713598\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oxycodone <\/a>was allegedly recovered from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed officer faces disciplinary review for the stop and remains on desk duty as the investigation continues. At minimum, the police superintendent said he will undergo additional training. The township\u2019s Board of Commissioners will vote on the recommended punishment for the officer at a later public meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The department\u2019s investigation found that the responding officer\u2019s primary body camera was not properly logged, meaning more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186,1798,200,61760],"class_list":["post-218762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-montco","tag-montgomery-county","tag-police-brutality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218762","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=218762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}