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| Walter Wallace Jr., the Philly man who pursued police w/a knife before being shot, was a rapper awaiting trial for threatening to shoot a woman | |
| 2020-10-28 | |
A judge ordered Wallace to undergo a psychiatric evaluation and treatment as far back as 2013. His family says he was bipolar. "I do know that he was on a regimen of lithium and that says to me he was under a doctor's care, and that says to me officers who are trained - invisible ink - properly should notice certain things when they arrive at the scene," said family attorney Shaka Johnson. Meanwhile, dozens of officers were injured by rocks and bricks in clashes with protestors after the shooting. Some neighbors have said those protestors were not from the neighborhood. Commissioner Outlaw addressed those concerns. "Speaking anecdotally - we tend not to like to speak anecdotally - but I will tell you the crowd that was out there on the scene, the residents from that neighborhood those, who witnessed the incident, those were the folks that I interacted with while there. Those were not the same people that we later interacted with once I left that scene. It was a completely different group, and quite frankly, demographics that we saw there and I heard from the community some of the same frustrations expressed as well," Outlaw said. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 It's a moment the sistas all dread: A gun to a black Black woman's head. And the source of unease? White supremacy? Please. Not that nightmare you let in your bed? Or, gawd help you, didn't. |
| Posted by: Oscar Ebbeanter5025 2020-10-28 18:38 |
| #14 Heh. Demands: 1. Rename that shit "Wallacemart." 2. Restock by the weekend. 3. KMBA. 4. Reparations. 5. Don't be like that, baby. |
| Posted by: Oscar Ebbeanter5025 2020-10-28 18:29 |
| #13 I see that they looted a Walmart in his honor. |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-10-28 18:09 |
| #12 The coveted Wallace endorsement... "Vote Harris! We're gonna be rich! Oh yes, it's a helluva pitch: She'll defund the police And we'll all live in peace... Because none of you bitches will snitch!" |
| Posted by: Oscar Ebbeanter5025 2020-10-28 17:01 |
| #11 Under a Harris administration, he would have been shot in the foot or leg. Under Harris administration he wouldn't been shot - because cops wouldn't have guns. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-10-28 13:19 |
| #10 Under a Harris administration, he would have been shot in the foot or leg. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2020-10-28 13:11 |
| #9 So the Black Lives that thug life here was threatening don't matter. Just looking for cover to riot and they have QRF just waiting for an incident. Got it. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-10-28 12:12 |
| #8 According to the other article today on the subject, AlanC, the officers did not have tasers. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-10-28 11:22 |
| #7 No, they were backing up and he was going after them. Righteous shoot. All on video and bodycams (although the bodycams haven't been released yet) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-10-28 11:15 |
| #6 Did they taze him before shooting him? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-10-28 10:48 |
| #5 Black non-criminal lives matter more, so put these in jail until no longer a threat. When people are recidivist the judge should lose pay and thier job if they continue to inflict known criminals on society. They Failed in their job to protect the rest of society. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-10-28 05:24 |
| #4 Avid Skateboarder |
| Posted by: Hupinesh Ebbeatch7692 2020-10-28 03:08 |
| #3 Another worthless POS, as are the rioters and looters who use the rapper;s demise as a trigger to Christmas shop early. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-10-28 02:38 |
| #2 A pillar of the community... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-10-28 01:51 |
| #1 He was turning his life around, right? |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-10-28 00:42 |