Walter Wallace Jr.’s family is seeking justice but they are not advocating for the officers who killed the 27-year-old Black man to be charged with murder.
The family, including Wallace’s mother and wife who were at the scene of the killing, privately reviewed the police body camera footage of the fatal shooting early Thursday morning.
According to their attorney, Shaka Johnson, the brief 30 to 40 second video put on display the systematic failings of the Philadelphia Police Department who armed the officers with “a tool by which to assassinate” instead of a less lethal device such as a Taser.
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