He should have ducked.
Amid community protests over Akron police officers’ fatal shooting of 25-year-old Jayland Walker on June 27, the Akron Police Department on Sunday released officer body-camera video of the incident, which started with an alleged traffic violation and ended in a huge eruption of fire from eight officers who were chasing him on foot.
While unarmed at the moment of the shooting, police say Walker fired a shot from his vehicle during the car chase that preceded the foot pursuit. They also say they found a pistol in his car and a shell casing near the site of Walker’s alleged shot.
Police say officers attempted to stop Walker’s vehicle in Akron’s North Hill section for unspecified traffic and equipment violations. He refused to stop and, about 40 seconds into the ensuing car chase, “a sound consistent with a gunshot can be heard on the body-worn cameras of the officers,” the police video narrator says.
In the video, one of the two officers in the car can be heard saying “shots fired,” and one proceeds to notify dispatch that a shot came out the suspect’s car. Akron police point to what they say is a flash of light visible at the same time.
The pursuit continued for several minutes, first on a freeway and then on city streets, with speeds reaching 80 miles per hour. Walker’s silver Buick eventually slowed to a crawl, and video shows him exiting through the passenger door while wearing a ski mask.
Police say that, as Walker ran, he turned and faced officers momentarily before continuing. Soon after, police unsuccessfully tried stopping him with Tasers.
Walker continued running, and as he reached a parking lot, police say he quickly turned toward the chasing officers. “Officers reacted by discharging their firearms, striking the suspect,” says the police video narrator.
Akron police chief Stephen Mylett said the video imagery gives the appearance that Walker is reaching for his waist, and that it captures what appears to be a “forward motion of his arm.” Officers told investigators they perceived that Walker had turned and appeared to be moving into a firing position.
An enormous volume of gunfire is heard on the video before shouts of “cease fire.” The number of shots fired is unknown.”However, based on the video, I anticipate that number to be high,” said Mylett. “A lot of rounds were fired, and I will not be surprised if the number at the end of the investigation is consistent with the number that has been circulating in the media.” That number is 90.
NOW – Police have released bodycam footage of the shooting of Jayland Walker in Akron, Ohio.
Walker was unarmed at the time of the shooting, but a gun was found in the car, police says. pic.twitter.com/9oREYZycIo
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 3, 2022
Early indications are that Walker may have been struck 60 times. Mylett said the precise number of impacts is unknown as medical examiners sort out the entrance and exit wounds.
The video appears to show that police continued firing their weapons after Walker had crumpled to the ground and after seemingly dozens of rounds had been fired. In all, eight officers opened fire and have been put on leave pending the investigation, as is customary.
Police shared a photo of a pistol they say was found in plain view on the driver’s seat of Walker’s car, along with a loaded magazine and a gold ring. They also said that, after the chase and shooting, investigators found a shell casing near the site of Walker’s alleged weapon-firing that’s consistent with the weapon found in the car.
Akron authorities echoed the Walker family’s urging that protests remain peaceful, and asked for the public’s patience during the investigation of the incident.
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You have to serpentine
He couldn’t as Peter Falk wasn’t there to instruct him like he did to Alan Arkin.
classic movie
I think we should arm the popo with Javelins.
1. That’s a weird position for the weapon, mag and ring were found in, no?
2. Nignogs seem to be quite stupid.
That gun appears to have no magazine inserted to me. So, he fired a shot, then pulled the magazine? Really?
If the police cleared the weapon, they left one round chambered because that appears to show a fired casing.
Everything is neatly situated like they do for photo ops. Someone took that after they rounded everything up. Doesn’t look like a crime scene pic.
Who knows.
The position seems totally wrong. The barrel should be pointed the other way, away from the person in the driver’s seat, not toward him. If the driver took out the magazine, you would expect him to set the gun down with the barrel pointed away and butt toward back of the car. It really looks fake.
It’s the modern equivalent of every beat cop carrying a cheap knife to drop at the scene of a police shooting of a suspect.
They need better training on the use of drop guns.
For a right handed shooter, that would be the position to keep it under your leg for quick drawing/firing. It is inconceivable that he would drop the mag after firing one shot at the cops. He would have taken it with him and dumped it if it looked like he was going to get caught.
This young man would be alive today if he just obeyed the law and pulled over for the traffic stop.
I wish I knew if he was taught to ignore and drive away from the police, or if it’s in the culture (general behavior) of Black Rap / Street life?
Either way, the individual cops will be fried for this.
And yes, the gun less mag, and ring looks staged. Can’t trust LEO.
There’s two things black folks have an inordinate fear of: cops and rednecks. Not all of them, but many. They feel safer living in the ‘hood than nearby to some cracker who flies the American flag. You and I wouldn’t flee the cops like that, but our mistrust of cops is tempered and evidence-based.
odds are he had the gun under his left leg on the seat of the car. old cop trick to get at your gun fast.
a whole lot faster than drawing it from a holster
One democrat down……………many more to go !
Almost all of these BLM martyrs have been uncooperative and argumentative with cops, or actively resisted arrest. How dumb do you have to be to figure out that if you’re black especially and the cops want you you’d better go along quietly?
Having said that, doesn’t it occur to the cops that “if I shoot this maggot my life is gonna be ruined, my family endangered and my town is gonna get burned?”
When stupid meets stupid the outcome will not be optimal.
I am no longer a supporter of the police after the lst couple of years. Zero respect and zero trust… even those I’ve known for years. To the cops that are there because they are honest and do care… get another job or move to a state that isn’t blue and run by the communists.
Like BDM states, if you shoot a maggot your life is over as well. Commies LOOK for any excuse to burn, riot and attack. You value you life and your families lives and still want to be a cop… then move. Let the commies destroy their own homes and businesses, shit in their own beds. Shoot’m when they come to a state that upholds law and order.
As the MSM headlines scream: Police Shoot Unarmed Black Man
I always try to put myself in the shoes of the police with stuff like this. If what they claim is true, and he did indeed fire his weapon from his car while be chased, then as a cop in a foot pursuit, I could only assume that he still had the gun on him and wouldn’t be afraid to fire it again. Whatever happens from here on out, this guy Walker got himself killed by his behavior and his actions.
I never put myself in the position of the cop because I’m not that stupid to be involved in a 90 round barrage. I’ve fired lots of guns and killed plenty of animals to know better. And, l don’t trust any of them not even in the red states. Do you trust the doctors just because they are in red states. I know this is gonna cause another uprising because he was black but, come on these guys have got to be encouraging uprisings by shooting 90 times at a guy who might have a gun. The nigger was stupid for running but one or two shots (if you are competent and they’re not) would stop anybody from running. Especially if he went down after firing.
You might have me confused for somebody who “backs the blue”. I don’t. I think most cops are mindless order followers and they care a lot more about their pensions than they do about your rights.
That being said, it seems that the number of shots fired is what bothers you and not the end result. I guess if only one of the cops fired just a few shots and killed him, maybe the optics would have looked better? I don’t know. The guy is still dead and from what I’ve seen and read, his stupidity is what got him killed.
5 or 60 hits, at this point what difference does it make? Dead is dead. For good reason the perpetrator was perceived to be lethal and the police reacted appropriately. Mission accomplished. It wasn’t snowing that day in Akron, was it? Then why was the perp wearing a ski mask? Why did he suddenly turn, reach toward his waistband and raise his arm toward the officers after earlier taking a potshot at them from his ride? Do stupid things. Win stupid prizes.
For good reason? Gun “found” looks like it was unloaded.
Suicide by cop.
It’s actually a thing.
How many times has the black community been told by the press, leaders, etc that cops kill blacks for no reason?
It’s ingrained in black culture the cops kill for simply being black (which is BS).
So, as usual the whole black-cop story is ginned up and ripe for these scenarios. They are self-fulfilling.
90 rounds, ehhh. There were 8 cops with 17 rounds magazines(?) What did you expect?
Cooperate with the cops or shoot it out in a blaze of stupid glory. Decisions have consequences.
I did notice their backdrop. It looks like a 3 story apt building. Luckily, no one else hit.
It’s a repeating story that will occur again and again ….by design.
All for stopping badguys but this looks wrong
Whatever dv. 60 hits? That doesn’t seem right, especially after looking at the footage.
It was dark and so was the target.
The kid should have stopped in the first place and he would not have gotten shot, but 8 AGW’s firing 90 rounds is unacceptable. That is 2/3 a mag per cop. It is like sharks in a feeding frenzy. One shoots and they all have to empty their mags in support.
Kid? The man was 25. By that time his brain should’ve been fully formed. Run from the cops and bad things happen.
I have grandsons older and still call them kids.
Was that cop firing with other officers forward of his position? If yes not good! Maybe the deceased’ s gun jammed. Cheap ammo, gun not cleaned, etc. etc. who knows will we ever know the whole story….. probably not.
C’mon Man! He was just delivering food for”Door Dash” working his job. It should have been obvious. He was wearing his uniform -black clothes and a ski mask and the standard self defense 9mm in a big hurry to make his delivery. He wasn’t running from the police he was just doing his job trying to deliver the food in a timely manner.
They came damn close to shooting each other.
90 rounds?
They are getting better.
41 rounds here.
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/05/nyregion/officers-in-bronx-fire-41-shots-and-an-unarmed-man-is-killed.html
There are not many circumstances that would make me give a damn either way.
Why would anyone need more than 5 rounds? FJB. I think this is an unspoken credo amongst the oinks. One fires we all fire and make sure they die. This mag dump shit with no regard to risks of downrange collateral damage seems to be the SOP now. I’ve heard time and again from actual LEO that cops are some of the worst at marksmanship.
The hit rate for cops is something like 1/6. Of course, these guys got to shoot at a stationary target on th ground so did better.
It is absolutely true that cops can’t shoot for shit.
I lived in Akron for two years. Total shit hole city. If the negroes burn it down, that would be a step in the right direction.