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.
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