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    Philadelphia Issues Curfew As It Braces For More Protests In Walter Wallace Shooting

    Mayor Jim Kenney ordered the curfew amid unrest after the fatal police shooting of the 27-year-old Black man. The city's police commissioner says bodycam footage will be released "in the near future."
    by Brakkton Booker Oct 28, 2020 2 minutes

    Updated at 2 a.m. ET Thursday

    Philadelphia officials issued a citywide curfew on Wednesday after consecutive nights of protests — which at times turned violent — following the fatal police shooting of a 27-year-old Black man, Walter Wallace Jr.

    He was holding a knife when police shot him.

    The curfew goes into effect at 9 p.m. Wednesday and lasts until 6

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