Mass Unrest, police officers Attacked After Video shows Police Shoot guy 10 instances in wide daylight hours

 

Violent protests rocked the town of Philadelphia Monday night after video surfaced of two Philly cops fatally shooting Walter Wallace Jr. The chaos unfolded immediately after the shooting happened and eventually spread to the police headquarters.

Riots and looting went largely unchecked by police, who were seen in several videos retreating from angry protesters attacking them over the killing of Wallace.

One officer was hospitalized and a minimum of 30 others was injured after being struck by rocks, bricks, and other projectiles during the unrest.

The unrest unfolded shortly after 4:00 p.m. Eastern when police said two officers passed through the 6100 block of Locust Street over a report of a person with a knife. members of the family identified the victim as Walter Wallace Jr.

The interaction was captured on a bystander’s cellular phone video and shows Wallace advancing toward officers, allegedly armed with a knife. Wallace ignored commands to prevent and put down the weapon. He also pushed past a girl, later identified as his mother, who perceived to be trying to carry him back.

Both officers were run out 10 feet aloof from Wallace once they opened fire on the person. a minimum of 10 gunshots are often heard before Wallace is seen collapsing to the bottom.

Police are immediately swarmed by angry residents and also the situation appears to devolve into chaos before the video ends. Police spokesperson Sgt. Eric Gripp said one amongst the officers drove Wallace to a close-by hospital but it had been too late, he had died from the bullet wounds.

Questions immediately followed the shooting, like why police didn’t first try and use a taser before hoping on deadly force. The victim’s father, Walter Wallace Sr. said police shot his son 10 times and never once attempted anything less lethal.

“Why didn’t they use a Taser?” the senior Wallace asked outside a family residence on the block. “His mother was trying to defuse the case.”

The Philly Inquirer reported that one witness, Maurice Holloway, said he was on the road speech his aunt when he saw police arrive. Wallace had a knife and was standing on the porch of his home, Holloway said, and officers immediately drew their guns.

Wallace’s mother chased after him as he walked down the steps of his porch, still holding the knife, in line with Holloway. His mother tried to shield Wallace and tell police he was her son.

“I’m yelling, ‘Put down the gun, put down the gun,’ and everybody is saying, ‘Don’t shoot him, he’s gonna put it down, we all know him,’” said Holloway, 35.

“He turns and so you hear the shots,” Holloway said. “They were too off from him; it had been such a large amount of shots.”

Gripp said officers possibly fired over a dozen shots and a minimum of 13 evidence markers were placed on the scene after the shooting. Gripp says both officers are placed on administrative leave and that they have yet to be identified.

For a minimum of two hours after the shooing, multiple residents protested within the vicinity of where Wallace was killed before later dispersing. However, later that night, multiple protesters gathered at Malcolm Little Park chanting “Black Lives Matter.” They marched to the police office at 55th and Pine Streets as they chanted, “Say his name: Walter Wallace.”

For several hours many protesters threw objects at officers and in one video, consistent with the Inquirer, a black truck was seen running over a politician.

Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said during a statement after the shooting, “I recognize that the video of the incident raises many questions. Residents have my assurance that those questions are going to be fully addressed by the investigation.”

Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #5 President John McNesby asked everyone to “wait for the investigation to finish and to not meetly vilify the department of local government.”

However, the administrator of the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Reggie Shuford said Philadelphia “is overdue for a reckoning with the brazenly violent and abusive behavior in its local department. … Video from the incident suggests that nobody was in immediate danger when officers killed him.” Shuford involved full transparency by city officials.

There are a minimum of a half-dozen ways for a officer to prevent a knife-wielding subject, instead of employing lethal force with a firearm. And, the very fact is that several cops are ready to do that.

In Miami, two officers faced an analogous situation within which a person armed with a knife was threatening them. Never did they pull their guns, however, and instead were ready to disarm the person without killing him.