After Walter Wallace’s death, riots broke out in the city, thirty policemen were injured.

Riots have been going on for months in the United States and several other countries over police brutality and institutional racism. Demonstrations under the auspices of the radical movement for equal treatment of African Americans, Black Lives Matter, escalated after US police killed several unarmed African Americans in action. You can follow the latest news in our series of articles.

Philadelphia police said the uniforms had been summoned to the western district of the city because of an African American man threatening with a knife and who had been repeatedly called to lay down his weapon. The man, later identified as 27-year-old Walter Wallace, disobeyed them and, when he walked towards them, they shot him.

The father of the man shot Philadelphia Inquirer Speaking to the newspaper, he said his son could have been hit by ten shots. “Why didn’t the police use an electric shock first?” The man asked, who also spoke about the fact that his son was struggling with a mental illness that led him to take medication regularly.

A video recording of the case was also made on a mobile phone, showing two people trying to get a better look at Wallace, without success. One of them, the victim’s mother, threw the police after the shooting.

On Tuesday, protesters gathered in a park near the event and chanted, “Black lives matter.” The protesters set fire to police cars and garbage cans and attacked the departing police with stones. Thirty police officers were injured in the clashes.

Jim Kenney, the city’s Democratic mayor, announced that he will convene a meeting with the police chief to discuss the incident and its aftermath.

The police officers who shot Wallace were sent to work in the office.

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