Now sheltered within the towering stone walls of the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, both families swear they'll stay until the U.S. government agrees to let them live and work here, as they have done for years.

'The Philadelphia Coalition for a Just District Attorney, a local group of criminal justice activists, issued a statement saying in part: "In keeping to his commitment to investigate police killings, Mr. Krasner is telling thousands of Philadelphians that police should not have a protected status and must be held accountable for the violence they enact in our communities."'