A lieutenant paces near a line of parked police cars on Market Street.
October 27th, 2020. Philadelphia.
Walter Wallace Jr. was killed by police in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of West Philadelphia on the afternoon of Monday, October 26th, 2020. The following day, hundreds gathered in the streets of West Philly to protest against the use of deadly force by the Philadelphia Police Department. Protests continued well into Wednesday morning.
Police block Pine Street in front of the 18th Precinct as protestors gather by the hundreds.
Police on Market Street
A man shouts at a line of police sealing off Market Street
Spit flies as a man shouts on Market Street.
An officer stands quietly behind his shield
Several men watch from behind a closed storefront on Market Street.
Police advance as a man hits a police officer in the head with his fist. The man was later arrested.
At Market and 53rd, a young man holds up his fist across from a line of riot police.
An officer looks for his missing keys in an alleyway off 52nd Street.