Philadelphia’s Clash With MOVE Group Cost $16.7 Million
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PHILADELPHIA — The 1985 confrontation with the radical group MOVE cost Philadelphia more than $16.7 million, $1 million higher than a preliminary estimate, according to figures compiled by the city controller’s office.
The latest figure includes costs associated with all aspects of the siege and its aftermath, including the price of rebuilding homes destroyed during the confrontation and the costs of the commission that investigated the siege.
Police dropped a bomb on the radical group’s fortified row house on May 13, 1985, that ignited a fire. Eleven people, five of them children, were inside the house and died.
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