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Several hundred Pennsylvania National Guard members were mobilized to Philadelphia Tuesday in response to riots following the fatal police-involved shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. Ninety-one people were arrested and 30 officers were injured during the violent unrest.

Lt. Col. Keith Hickox said in a statement:

At the direction of Governor Wolf, and PEMA, the Pennsylvania National Guard is mobilizing several hundred members in support of the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management and assist local agencies in protecting life, property and the right to peacefully assemble and protest. Assisting civil authorities during times of need is one of our core missions in the National Guard and our Citizen Soldiers and Airmen are well-trained and well-prepared to assist our commonwealth and our communities in any way we can. We are able to conduct operations in support of civil authorities to enhance local law enforcement’s ability to provide continued public safety and critical infrastructure security.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said the department will bolster its presence in the city as well.

“For today and this evening, we anticipate the chance of additional incidents of civil unrest and, as such, we will be taking additional steps to ensure order,” Outlaw told reporters during a press conference.

The video showed two Philadelphia police officers pointing guns and moving away from Wallace as he walks toward them with a knife in hand. Police Sgt. Eric Gripp said Wallace was “brandishing” the knife and “waving it erratically.” . . .

“Upon being struck, the male immediately dropped the knife and was scooped up by one of the discharging officers who took him into his police car, drove him over to Presbyterian Hospital where, unfortunately, he succumbed to his injuries,” Gripp said.

Police were originally called to the residence in West Philadelphia for a report of a man with a weapon.

(Excerpt from Breitbart. Article by Joshua Caplan. Photo Credit: Getty Images.)

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Mel Teoh
October 29, 2020

Father God:
Thank you for who You Are. Thank You for this article. Thank you for IFA, please bless them so that it can unite more people and keep it focus for YOUR GLORY.

Father-God, please let the Holy Spirit be a strong voice in the heart of each POLICE from the Philadelphia Police Dept. and each of the National Guard who You have placed to protect Philadelphia THAT they to draw closer to YOU in their heart thru PRAYERS and REMEMBERING SCRIPTURE so that they can have discernment for any action that they need to take in order to create peaceful surrender from all the BLM or ANTIFA or all the people that are involve in the protest/riot. Please Father, allow them to NOT feel weary and tired and giving up. Please Father, allow them to feel how grateful we are as the citizen of what they’re doing. Please Father, allow them to feel how proud YOU of them for what they’re doing.
Father, please send YOUR ANGEL to protect each of the Police and National Guard that are in Philadelphia. Please allow the attacker to SEE it and be afraid. Oh Father-God, in Jesus name, I’m praying and thanking YOU for YOUR will to be done in this matter. True PEACE only come from YOU. Please allow these rioters to feel YOUR peace so that they decide to go home and not riot anymore. Please help all these rioters to find their friends or family who are able to lead them to accepting Jesus as their Savior because without Jesus they can not know the TRUTH, what is right according to GOD.

Amen .. Amen.

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Debra
October 28, 2020

Father God, as the election nears, we pray that you will protect our food supply chains and our electrical grid from foreign adversaries as well as domestic ones. We pray fervently for protection over our democratic systems. There are many who want to destroy them. Please, God, place a hedge of protection around our nation’s infrastructure so that those who come against us from within or from without will not succeed in their plans. Ride victoriously on behalf of truth and justice and freedom. Break the power of idolatry, tyranny, stealing, lying, distortions of truth, insinuations, temptations and all the evil planned for our nation. We need YOU. We cry out to you. We lift our eyes up to YOU for help comes from you, the Maker of heaven and earth. In Jesus Name. Amen.

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    Darlene Estlow
    October 29, 2020

    Amen. Thank you Father for your protection.

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Delois
October 28, 2020

Personally, I am embarrassed for America when I watch the open stealing and violence in Philadelphia and other cities. These people should be ashamed!! But they are NOT ashamed. They are harming innocent store owners, other people in their neighborhoods, and the police who protect the good people.
Righteous anger should be the reaction, not tolerance! Protection of the innocent is needed. Quick justice is a deterrent to evil. When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to the evildoers. Prov.21:15 Evil prevails when good people do nothing!

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    Sandra McCaa
    October 29, 2020

    They say they riot/protest because of injustices against blacks and black lives matter. How many black men, women and children have been attacked, their businesses attacked and their lives destroyed? Surely, their black lives matter. Lord, open spiritual eyes to see and know the truth that they would be set free from the enemy’s blinding influence over their lives.

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