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Shop NowLooting, rioting, and chaos continued for a second consecutive night in Philadelphia on Tuesday following the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. in West Philadelphia.
Wallace, 27, was armed with a knife, ignored repeated warnings by police to drop the weapon, and charged toward the officers. He was shot 14 times by two of the officers on the scene, who were called for a domestic disturbance related to the mental health of Wallace. The family had reportedly called for an ambulance, not police, to help Wallace. People often do not understand that emergency workers will not arrive on scene until police have cleared it of any present danger.
As usual, Black Lives Matter does not care whether a shooting was justified, they just want to cause chaos.
Police announced on Tuesday night that looting along Aramingo Avenue in Philadelphia’s Port Richmond neighborhood has “rapidly gone downhill” and is a “total loss.”
Phila. Police commanders say the situation has “rapidly gone downhill” along Aramingo Ave. — a “total loss,” they say, from looting. Chopper 3 shows video of demonstrators & police at 52nd and Chestnut. As of this post, no injuries to police tonight. @CBSPhilly pic.twitter.com/cPjyAqSpys
— Joe Holden (@JoeHoldenCBS3) October 28, 2020
The city and police department asked residents to stay indoors in West and North Philadelphia, Port Richmond, Kensington, and Fishtown. Demonstrators faced off with police officers in riot gear outside the 18th Police District and along the 52nd Street commercial corridor.
Several arrests have been made.
The Philadelphia Police Department is requesting that all residents in the 12, 16, 18, 19, 24, 25, and 26th Districts remain indoors except when necessary. These areas are experiencing widespread demonstrations that have turned violent with looting.
— Philadelphia OEM (@PhilaOEM) October 28, 2020
Looters could be seen entering multiple stores, including a Foot Locker and a Five Below.
BREAKING: looting is taking place all around Philadelphia. This is a five below store being ransacked by black lives matter protesters pic.twitter.com/HyCzERRjOk
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) October 28, 2020
*Alert* A large crowd of appx 1000 is looting businesses in the area of Castor and Aramingo. Avoid the area
— Philadelphia Police (@PhillyPolice) October 28, 2020
Widespread looting also occurred at a nearby Walmart store in Port Richmond. Philadelphia police sent out a warning on Twitter to stay away from the area as a crowd of approximately 1,000 people was looting in the area.
Chaos continues at the Walmart on Aramingo. pic.twitter.com/HaB43g24St
— Drew Smith (@drewsmithtv) October 28, 2020
A large police presence was also observed at a Target store in Port Richmond.
Elijah Schaffer, a reporter for The Blaze who has been on the ground for a lot of the riots, posted about the chaos on Twitter:
BREAKING: Rite-Aid was one of 30+ stores completely looted in Philadelphia
No police around. Not even any rioters remained to finish the store off. Why?
There were too many other stores being destroyed and ransacked nearby with higher ticket items
That’s how bad it is pic.twitter.com/0JwKkipHZd
— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) October 28, 2020
BREAKING: Philadelphia police have completely lost control of the affected rioting region which stretches multiple city blocks
Looters have broken into more than 30+ stores and are attacking white people
They are also shooting each other. I’ve only witnessed one arrest pic.twitter.com/bHPGAntwST
— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) October 28, 2020
Fox News seemed to be the only mainstream news outlet that was actually on scene to cover the riots and violence:
Earlier tonight, Townhall's @Julio_Rosas11 joined @IngrahamAngle to report what he's seeing on the ground in Philadelphia, PA:
"I haven't seen anything like this on this scale since Minneapolis back in May." pic.twitter.com/aajYTUDX4R
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 28, 2020
Thirty police officers were injured during the first round of riots on Monday night, including a female police officer whose leg was broken after she was hit by a car.
Early Tuesday evening, Governor Tom Wolf’s office announced that the Pennsylvania National Guard was mobilizing to head to Philly. Guard members were sent to help protect local property and supplement the Philadelphia Police, a Guard spokesman said.
“I do not want to see my city tore down. We don’t need that. You’re not resolving anything for our family. Don’t do this in the name of my nephew because this is not what he would’ve wanted,” said Rodney Everett, Wallace’s uncle.
At the Walmart — bullets stolen and left on the ground. Water leaking from pipes after looters broke in through the ceiling @NBCPhiladelphia officers report 11 shootings in this district alone since last night pic.twitter.com/kfKgmKs3dj
— Randy Gyllenhaal (@RandyGyllenhaal) October 28, 2020
