By Ralph Cipriano
BigTrial.net
October 31, 2020
On a day when the National Guard was being sent in to restore order, all Philadelphia cops were pulling 12 and 16 hours shifts in the wake of rioting and looting over the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.
The cops made some 174 arrests during the riots, but the cost was 58 injured officers, the most serious of which was a female sergeant who’s still in the hospital after she got hit by a truck and broke her leg.
Besides the wounded officers, 16 police vehicles and one Fire Department Rescue Unit were damaged by rioters. Some 210 businesses were looted and sustained property damage. Across the city, 11 ATM machines were blown up by explosive devices.