Delaware County leaders condemned the alleged use of racist slurs by a volunteer Sharon Hill firefighter and local fence company worker. He is facing charges in a road rage incident. State Sen. Anthony H. Williams, seen in this 2022 file photo, is calling for Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer to release video of an alleged road rage incident during which a local firefighter is accused of using racist slurs.
gathered outside the Darby Township police station Thursday to condemn hatred after a worker with a local fencing company and volunteer firefighter allegedly threatened a woman and used a string of racial slurs in an apparent road rage incident in November. “I’m not usually speechless but I was just stunned at how arrogant and what he really believes in his heart to be what America looks like,” State Sen. Anthony Williams, a Delaware County Democrat, said at the news conference.The man who allegedly made the threats, John Romano, was criminally charged with terroristic threats, harassment and ethnic intimidation in November. But Williams and the Delaware County Black Caucus called for any governments who held contracts with the company to sever their relationships.On the day of the incident, Darby Township Police were called to the company’s location on Hook Road because of reports that a man loading trees onto a forklift was blocking the road and shouting racial slurs at the driver of a Chevrolet Camaro, according to the affidavit of probable cause for Romano’s arrest. The driver told police that the man, later identified as Romano, called her a “monkey” after she honked at him, took a photo of her license plate, and demanded to know where she lived.The driver, whom the Inquirer is not naming because reporters were unable to reach her before publishing, told police that Romano threatened physical violenc