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by Juliate 400 days ago
It's a matter of proportionality.

Calling on the cops because one person in an undercrowded park, toss a ball? The cops actually acting on that report?

Maybe if the police had different narrative, they would have answered; from the article mentioned: "I reached out to the township and the superintendent of the Lower Merion Police Department on Monday and heard back from neither."

So it was likely a ludicrous report, and a ludicrous reaction for the local police department, that doesn't stand the light of a local newspaper.