Walter Wallace: Second night of unrest in Philadelphia following fatal police shooting

[EnterpriseSovereign]

Hundreds of protesters marched through Philadelphia for a second night following the fatal police shooting of a black man.

Police said Walter Wallace Junior, 27, was wielding a knife and ignored orders to drop the weapon before officers fired the fatal shots on Monday afternoon.

His father, Walter Wallace Sr, told The Philadelphia Inquirer that his son was on medication and struggled with his mental health.

About 500 people had gathered at a West Philadelphia park on Tuesday night and began marching through the neighbourhood, chanting "What was name? Walter Wallace."

There were sporadic reports of arrests in other areas of the city Tuesday night around 9pm.

Video showed people streaming into stores and stealing goods as they left on the opposite side of the city from where Mr Wallace was shot.

The Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management tweeted around 9:30pm on Tuesday, cautioning residents in eastern Philadelphia to remain indoors.

Protesters confronted police officers in the second night of unrest and at times threw objects.

Philadelphia officials had anticipated further unrest on Tuesday, after Philadelphia police arrested more than 90 people during protests and unrest that began Monday and spread into the early morning hours of Tuesday, sometimes turning into violent confrontations with police.

Police had previously said 30 officers were injured in the Monday night unrest, most of them hit with thrown objects like bricks.

Meanwhile the family of Mr Wallace said police officers knew their son was in a mental health crisis because they had been to the family’s house three times on Monday.

Cathy Wallace, his mother, said one of the times officers visited “they stood there and laughed at us.”
Protesters confront police during a march in Philadelphia. Credit: AP

The Wallace family’s lawyer, Shaka Johnson, said Mr Wallace’s brother had called 911 to request medical assistance and ambulance.

He said: “When you come to a scene where somebody is in a mental crisis, and the only tool you have to deal with it is a gun … where are the proper tools for the job?”

State and local officials have called for transparency and a thorough investigation into Mr Wallace’s death, including the release of body camera footage from the two officers who fired their weapons.

Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said she was still reviewing when and what information would be released to the public, but said neither had a Taser at the time of the shooting.

Officials said they could not confirm what information had been given to the responding officers, whether they were told about a possible mental illness or how many calls they had received for help at Mr Wallace’s address on Monday.
Protesters confront police during a march in Philadelphia Credit: AP

Chief Police Inspector Frank Vanore confirmed police had received a call before the fatal encounter on Monday about a man screaming and saying that he was armed with a knife.

The two officers each fired at least seven rounds – at least 14 total shots – but Mr Vanore could not say how many times Mr Wallace, a father of nine, was struck.

The victim’s father, Mr Wallace Senior said he is haunted by the way his son was “butchered”.

“It’s in my mind. I can’t even sleep at night. I can’t even close my eyes,” he said.

In video filmed by a bystander and posted on social media, officers yell for Mr Wallace to drop a knife.

His mother and at least one man follow Mr Wallace, trying to get him to listen to officers, as he walks across the street and between cars.

Mr Wallace advanced toward the officers, who then fired several times, said police spokesperson Officer Tanya Little.

Mr Wallace’s mother screams and throws something at an officer after her son is shot and falls to the ground.

Police would not confirm any details about the weapon Mr Wallace was alleged to be holding on Tuesday, saying it is still part of the open investigation.

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[Eulogy]

Even wild dogs learn from their mistakes, even if it takes them a while, ffs. These pigs never do, they keep on throwing more gasoline onto the already raging dumpster fire that is the protests and wonder why more and more people despise them.

They think getting hit by heavy objects is bad? They ain't seen nothing yet.

[Crossroads Inc.]

In order to learn from a mistake..
one has to admit they have MADE a mistake...
The Police of America, or more importantly, the Police UNIONS are incapable of ever doing so.
To admit a Mistake is to admit guilt.
To admit guilt means you are responsible.
And Police can never, ever be responsible for anything. They are above responsibility
So goes the mantra of the Police.

[FireNexus]

I’ve been hearing weird booms like back in June again. Haven’t checked the local news but ai assume they’re blowing up ATMs in Kensington again. I’m not going to be able to buy that the cop didn’t kill the guy To suppress votes.

All I know is that when my friend who is bipolar had a manic episode and started throwing furniture out the window of her third floor loft, she bit a philly police officer with mount so much as copping a charge. Guess what color she is.

[Eulogy]

Meanwhile, the pigs unwittingly release more ads making Biden look good. After all, they are very eager to prove that yes, they are in fact the enemy:

Police took a Black toddler from his family’s SUV. Then, the union used his photo as ‘propaganda,’ attorneys say.

On Thursday, the nation’s largest police union posted a photo to social media taken during the unrest in Philadelphia this week, where hundreds of protesters clashed with officers over the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. The Fraternal Order of Police’s posts showed a Philadelphia police officer holding a Black toddler clinging to her neck.

“This child was lost during the violent riots in Philadelphia, wandering around barefoot in an area that was experiencing complete lawlessness,” the union claimed in a tweet and Facebook post that have since been deleted. “The only thing this Philadelphia police officer cared about in that moment was protecting this child.”

But lawyers for the boy’s family say that story was a total fabrication.

In fact, they say police yanked the boy from the back seat of an SUV after busting all of the windows and violently arresting and injuring his mother, who was later released without charges.

“It’s propaganda,” attorney Riley H. Ross III told The Washington Post. “Using this kid in a way to say, ‘This kid was in danger and the police were only there to save him,’ when the police actually caused the danger. That little boy is terrified because of what the police did.”

Ross and colleague Kevin Mincey are representing the boy’s mother in a civil rights case stemming from the violent clash with police on the first night of protests in Philadelphia, which has had four straight nights of unrest after officers the fatal police shooting of Wallace, 27, who was armed with a knife and whose family said he was mentally ill.

Not long after midnight on Tuesday, Rickia Young, a 28-year-old home health aide, borrowed her sister’s car, put her 2-year-old son in the back seat and drove across town to West Philadelphia to pick up her teenage nephew from a friend’s house, Mincey said.

She was driving back to their home, hoping the purring car engine would lull her young son to sleep, when she turned onto Chestnut Street, where police and protesters had collided. She found herself unexpectedly driving toward a line of police officers who told her to turn around, Mincey said. The young mother tried to make a three-point turn when a swarm of Philadelphia officers surrounded the SUV, shattered its windows and pulled Young and her 16-year-old nephew from the car, the video shows.

A now-viral video of the confrontation shows officers throw Young and the teenager to the ground and then grab the toddler from the back seat. The scene was captured by Aapril Rice, who watched it unfold from her rooftop and told the Philadelphia Inquirer that watching a police officer take the baby was “surreal” and “traumatic.”

Mincey said police temporarily detained Young, who had to be taken to the hospital for medical treatment before she could be processed at the police station because her head was bleeding and most of her left side had been badly bruised when police threw her to the ground. She and her son were separated for hours, he said.

“Her face was bloodied and she looked like she had been beaten by a bunch of people on the street,” he told The Post. “She is still in pain.”

Her nephew also suffered injuries in the confrontation, Mincey said, and Young’s son was hit in the head leaving a large bump on the toddler’s forehead.

Mincey said Young phoned her mother while in police custody and asked her to find the boy. The toddler’s grandmother managed to find him after several hours, the lawyer said, sitting in his car seat in the back of a police cruiser with two officers in the front seats. Glass from the SUV’s broken windows still lay in the child’s car seat, he said.

The Inquirer first reported about the Fraternal Order of Police’s social media posts on Thursday. The photos of the boy in the arms of a police officer came amid a torrent of posts from the union decrying the protests in Philadelphia and urging people to vote for President Trump to promote “law and order.”

“We are not your enemy,” the union said in the posts showing Young’s son. “We are the Thin Blue Line. And WE ARE the only thing standing between Order and Anarchy.”

After the Inquirer asked the union about the posts, it removed the photos and the claim that an officer had found the toddler wandering barefoot in the protests. A spokeswoman for the FOP told The Post the union “learned of conflicting accounts of the circumstances under which the child came to be assisted by the officer and immediately took the photo and caption down.”

The Philadelphia Police Department did not immediately return The Post’s request for comment on the incident involving Young and her family Thursday night, but the department told the Inquirer that its internal affairs unit had opened an investigation.

The sun had risen Tuesday morning before Young was finally reunited with her 2-year-old son, Mincey said. Police held Young for several hours, but eventually released her without charges, her lawyers said. The boy’s family then took him to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where doctors treated him for the head injury and then released him.

The family’s lawyers said police have not yet told Young where to find the damaged SUV or the family’s belongings that were inside it, including her son’s hearing aids.

“She wasn’t out looting or out doing anything,” Mincey said. “She wasn’t even charged with a crime.”

We already knew the swine can't read the writing on the wall, but they also insist on digging their graves even deeper in a city that hates them. They're not going to last too much longer at this rate.

[Darth Yan]

Policing in it's current form needs to change. But anyone who says that policing needs to be abolished is an idiot.