READING, Pa. – Photos and videos of a large police presence on Franklin Street in Reading spread quickly across social media Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
Police say what many people didn\u2019t know is what led up to it.<\/p>\n
According to Reading Police Department, officers were called to the 800 block of Franklin Street for a reported domestic incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis came out as a domestic violence call between a male and a female,\u201d said RPD Deputy Chief Aaron Demko. \u201cWe did receive some information that there was potentially a firearm involved or that the suspect may have had access to a firearm.\u201d<\/p>\n
Out of caution, police called in the Berks County Emergency Response Team (BCERT,) which led to a large and highly visible police operation.<\/p>\n
Some neighbors reported hearing loud bangs during the response. Police say those sounds were not gunfire.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no gunshots fired,\u201d Demko said. \u201cWhat you heard was a breaching tool to make entry into the front door.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police say when officers entered the apartment, they found it empty. No injuries were reported and no one has been taken into custody.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time, nobody is in custody for this and the investigation is ongoing,\u201d Demko said.<\/p>\n
The police activity caused temporary disruptions in the area. BARTA says earlier delays have since been cleared and bus service is now running on time.<\/p>\n
Police say misinformation spread quickly online, including reports of shots fired and people being hurt, which they say is not true.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe goal of this is to put it out to our residents that this is the facts,\u201d Demko said. \u201cThere\u2019s no known threat to public safety at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Photos and videos of a large police presence on Franklin Street in Reading spread quickly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[46152,28,736,128,130,129,1306,3652],"class_list":["post-93953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-aaron-demko","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-police-department","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93953","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=93953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}