Policing

The department has a clear “disconnect” in terms of mental health resources, Commissioner Outlaw said.

The van was recovered on the Ben Franklin Parkway a Logan Circle around 10 p.m. Wednesday. The ATF and the Bomb Squad were both called to the scene to investigate.

We discuss mental health and policing around the shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. in Philadelphia. Then, the dark money influencing the 2020 election.

Thomas Blackwell alleges he was beaten by police during a Monday protest of the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.

City Councilmembers said that legislative measures long in the works would advance reform efforts in the wake of Wallace’s death by police gunfire.

The curfew will go into effect Wednesday at 9 p.m. and will be in place through 6 a.m. Thursday.

If watching feels necessary or inevitable, there are methods to cope.

“We are not at war,” said the police commissioner, a day after two officers shot and killed a Black man.

Krasner said he has not yet decided whether he will pursue charges against the two officers who shot Wallace on his West Philadelphia block.

West Philadelphians described their own efforts to de-escalate conflicts and heal their community as they mourned the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.

The shooting, captured on video, has prompted outrage and disbelief among neighbors and West Philadelphia residents.

Instead of de-escalating a situation in which an ambulance was sought, officers who arrived escalated it, said the attorney representing Wallace’s family.

The controversial measure is rooted in data that show Philly police pull over a disproportionate number of Black drivers for minor traffic violations.

Despite a police moratorium on the practice, Philly City Council is expected to pass a ban on police using tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters.

The 27-year-old was shot dead in front of his mother and neighbors.