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Riots broke out in West Philadelphia after a deranged Black man, armed with a knife, was killed by police. Many of the rioters were not local - but Antifa and Black Lives Matter “protesters.” This incident gives rise to three questions that are being ignored.First, why is the media taking the role of contemners of the police? Media accounts of the incident are risible. Two Philadelphia Inquirer journalists Anna Orso and Samantha Melamed, tweeted that Philadelphia police shot a Black man "to death in broad daylight" firing multiple times - omitting the man was deranged and armed with a knife....

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The family of Walter Wallace, a black man that was shot to death by police officers in Philadelphia on Monday, has spoken out about the incident. After viewing the bodycam footage, they are calling for justice for Wallace. Law enforcement is set to release the bodycam footage of the incident that took Wallace’s life shortly. “I would like to see justice done for what they did to my son,” said Kathy Brant, Wallace’s mother. Two police officers shot Wallace after been called to a West Philadelphia neighborhood. The 27-year-old approached the officers while brandishing a knife shortly before being gunned...

The Black man fatally shot by Philadelphia police officers on Monday was an aspiring rapper who sometimes rhymed about shooting people, including police officers, and was awaiting trial for allegedly threatening to shoot a woman, according to media reports. Walter Wallace Jr., 27, also rapped about social justice and police injustice on his social media, WPVI-TV reported. Court records obtained by the news outlet also show Wallace had a criminal history. In 2017, he pleaded guilty to robbery, assault and possessing an instrument of crime, according to documents obtained by Fox News. Authorities said he kicked down the door of...

A riot has erupted in Philadelphia after a black male was shot by police after charging at officers with a knife. The shooting took place shortly before 5 p.m. on Monday, and footage of the incident quickly went viral on social media. The man, Walter Wallace, was pronounced dead at the hospital. “Officers ordered him several times to drop the weapon,” Philadelphia Police Sergeant Eric Gripp said. “He did not do so.”