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60 bullets, then cuffed him. Akron law & order [1]
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Date: 2022-07-03
Akron Police Chief Stephen Mylett said he did not know the exact number of rounds fired at Jayland Walker, 25. But, Mylett added, the medical examiner’s report indicates more than 60 wounds on Walker’s body.
AKRON, Ohio — Police on Sunday released body-camera footage showing officers firing dozens of rounds at a Black man who left his car while fleeing a traffic stop one week ago, a killing that has sparked outrage, investigations and demands for accountability.
⚠️Warning: GRAPHIC Akron Police just released the body camera footage of the killing of Jayland Walker. Jayland was unarmed and running away when police opened fire, firing 90 shots, hitting him 60. The Department of Justice needs to step in to investigate immediately. pic.twitter.com/owMmoSwFCi
At 12:30 a.m. on June 27, police say they attempted to pull Walker over for traffic and equipment violations, but Chief Steve Mylett did not specify which infractions. Body cam video shows Walker headed southbound on Route 8, where a shot was fired from his car and he reached speeds up to 70 mph. After slowing his vehicle near the Firestone Park neighborhood, minutes from the University of Akron main campus, Walker took off on foot toward a nearby parking lot, where he was fatally shot by police.
The police chief described the footage, which was blurred to obscure Walker, as “difficult to watch” and “shocking.” He said he would reserve judgment until hearing from the officers involved. Evidence indicates that Walker had fired a gun during the car chase, Mylett said.
“When an officer makes the most critical decision in his or her life as a police officer, when they fire an arm at another human being, they have to be ready to explain why they did what they did — they need to be able to articulate what specific threats they were facing,” he said. “And that goes for every round that goes down the barrel of their gun. And they need to be held to account.”
Eight officers involved in the shooting have been placed on paid leave pending the outcome of probes by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Akron Police Office of Professional Standards and Accountability.
Police tried to stop Walker’s Buick about 12:30 a.m. June 27 for investigation of an unspecified traffic violation and chased him when he did not pull over, the Akron Police Department said. Shortly after an officer said he heard a gunshot come from the Buick, Walker jumped out of the car and ran into a parking lot, with officers following — and eventually firing.
Walker was pronounced dead in the parking lot. Among the images police displayed Sunday were those of a gun that they said they found in his car, beside a loaded magazine.
An attorney for his family, Bobby DiCello, told The Washington Post over the weekend that eight officers fired more than 90 rounds at Walker, with more than 60 striking him.
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x I talked to policing experts about the body camera footage released today of the Akron police shooting of Jayland Walker. They told me more questions than answers come from the video:
https://t.co/UxA97o77gO — Cady Stanton (@cady_stanton) July 3, 2022
Methodology
Using the on-screen time display information that is located on the top right of each body camera video, News 5 went frame-by-frame of each video to manually synchronize them together. News 5 synced each video at the exact moment that each video displayed the time 00:37:12, which is 12:37:12 a.m. displayed in military time. The inclusion of the “12” represents seconds.
In order to fit 13 video sources on the same screen, News 5 scaled each video clip from 100 percent down to 20 percent. Each video was then manually aligned via the X-axis and Y-axis.
To get a better understanding of all the different perspectives of the different officers involved in the police action shooting, News 5 has presented the multi-video view in two different fashions.
This first video, embedded below, does not have audio. The first half shows all 13 body-worn camera videos synced together. The second half shows only nine body camera videos. The nine body camera videos shown represent the eight officers who appeared to have fired shots as well as one video from an officer who was at the immediate shooting scene but did not appear to fire his or her weapon.
WARNING: These videos include images and video that viewers may find graphic and/or disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.
The second video, embedded below, shows all 13 body camera videos but with the inclusion of audio. Regardless of whether the clip is viewed in mono or stereo, the inclusion of 13 audio sources may be disorienting for some viewers.
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