Grief, anger, and questions remain in West Philadelphia after fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.; Trump says he’s ready to send in federal resources ‘if requested' trib.al/lh8O4EX
The Trump administration, without naming Walter Wallace Jr., blamed the unrest in Philly on the “liberal Democrats' war against the police."
LATEST: The City of Philadelphia will issue a citywide curfew Wednesday afternoon that will go into effect at 9 p.m., according to a message sent to businesses from the managing director’s office.
UPDATE: Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said the department was conducting a “threat assessment” to determine “if and when” the names of the officers who shot Walter Wallace Jr. could be released. inquirer.com/news/philadelp…
Philadelphia will officially be under a curfew from 9 p.m. Wednesday until 6 a.m. Thursday, the city has announced. inquirer.com/news/philadelp…
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The Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management told residents in West Philadelphia, as well as Kensington, Fairhill, North Philly, Fishtown, and Port Richmond, to remain inside due to the unrest.
Around 9:20 p.m., protesters started throwing objects at a small group of officers and chased them near 52nd Street.
Police said they were being attacked by protesters at 52nd and Market Streets and used pepper spray and batons to protect themselves and make numerous arrests.
Police officers shot a man during a confrontation Tuesday afternoon in West Philadelphia. Police then transported the man to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. His condition was not immediately available. trib.al/YHM0IEZ
Here’s more from the scene on this. The shooting occurred this afternoon.
1/ Employees say that Bell & Evans did not protect the 1,800 workers of its chicken processing plants in Fredericksburg, Pa. Mostly Latino, the workforce lives in the neighboring town of Lebanon, which is overrun with COVID-19 cases and has few ICU beds.
2/ Three Bell & Evans employees have died from the coronavirus. The CDC says that Pa. has more confirmed cases of COVID-19 among meat production workers than any other state. How many of Lebanon’s cases can be traced to the plants is unknown.
3/ “We practically work head to head. We work like less than one foot away,” a current employee who contracted COVID-19 told @astridrodrigues. Bell & Evans did not return multiple requests for comment.
1/ Top Roman Catholic leaders in #Pennsylvania routinely covered up child sex abuse by hundreds of priests over decades, according to a long-awaited grand jury report released today. Here are some of the key details. trib.al/LbZMRAC
2/ The nearly 900-page document outlines abuse and cover ups across six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania. trib.al/dXy6BnT
3/ The report included accounts of more than 1,000 victims, spanning seven decades, across the dioceses of Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Allentown, Scranton, Erie and Greensburg - together home to more than 1.7 million Roman Catholics. trib.al/dXy6BnT