Walter Wallace Jr.

Last Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 · 11:09 a.m.

Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw at a November 2020 press conference announcing the names of the officers who shot and killed Walter Wallace Jr.

Despite national outcry, Philly police slow to implement mental health crisis reforms

It’s been six months since officers fatally shot Walter Wallace Jr. while responding to a 911 call.

Then-Lt. Tom McLean displays displaying new Philly police equipment in 2014

Mayor Kenney, City Council advance on $14 million Taser buy for Philly police

The proposed five-year contract for thousands of electronic weapons comes less than a month after Walter Wallace Jr.’s shooting.

Protesters carry likenesses of Walter Wallace Jr. during a march against police violence in West Philadelphia

How mental health pros intervene on a 911 call — what didn’t happen for Walter Wallace Jr.

If there is a weapon involved, "people feel comfortable enough to relinquish [it]," a local crisis response expert said.

Marchers protesting the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. were met with more police

Opinion: Funding police is not the answer to the crisis that killed Walter Wallace Jr.

More Tasers will not help solve ongoing divestment in Black Philadelphia, the cofounder of the Amistad Law Project argues.

Yhané Ndgo leads protesters in chanting Walter Wallace’s name at City Hall after the city of Philadelphia released body cam footage of the police shooting and killing him

‘Shoot him’: Body camera footage shows officers who shot and killed Walter Wallace Jr.

Neither officer has more than three years experience in the PPD. At request of the Wallace family, the video was lightly redacted, but it is still extremely disturbing.

A boarded up UPS Store at 13th and Chestnut closed early Wednesday

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Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw in June

After Wallace shooting, Philly police seek $14 million for Tasers while overtime costs pile up

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Walter Wallace Sr. speaks to the media the day after his son was shot by Philly police officers

Philly police rebuffed offers from crisis response center to work together, director says

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

Community leaders and members of the clergy led a march Tuesday from the site where Walter Wallace Jr. was killed to the police precinct at 55th and Pine

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Family of the late Walter Wallace Jr. fill the front row of a community meeting inside a church, the day after he was shot to death by police

A parade of promises at West Philly community meeting, and Walter Wallace’s family walks out

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

The 6100 block of Locust Street in Philadelphia’s Cobbs Creek neighborhood where Walter Wallace was shot and killed by police Monday

Everything we know about the police killing of West Philly’s Walter Wallace Jr.

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