A dissection found that eight Akron, Ohio, cops shot Jayland Walker multiple times, remembering multiple times for the back, when they started shooting and killed the unarmed person of color during a traffic stop three weeks prior, a clinical inspector said on Friday.
During a news meeting, Summit County Medical Examiner Lisa Kohler said her post-mortem examination likewise resolved that Walker, 25, had no medications or liquor in his framework when he was shot and killed by police on June 27.
The shooting was the most recent in a progression of killings of people of color by policing the United States that pundits say are ridiculous. One of those killings, the 2020 homicide of George Floyd in Minneapolis, touched off worldwide fights against police ruthlessness and racial foul play.
Since the occurrence in Akron, dissenters have held showings in the city of around 200,000 individuals calling for police to be considered responsible for the shooting and for equity for Walker, who was let go on Thursday.
Kohler said Walker was likewise struck in the middle, pelvis, legs and face by gunfire when officials started shooting at him after they endeavored to pull him over for a minor criminal traffic offense and he escaped.
Following a pursuit of a few minutes, Walker leaped out of the vehicle and ran from the officials, a video delivered by police showed.
Police said it seems he was moving in the direction of officials, who at the time accepted he was equipped. A weapon was subsequently recuperated from his vehicle, they said.
Kohler said that her office didn’t do a discharge buildup test on Walker, it isn’t generally dependable to say the testing.
It was recently detailed that Walker had in excess of 60 injuries to his body, yet Kohler on Friday said that a portion of those injuries were not from gunfire.
The eight officials straightforwardly engaged with the shooting have been put on paid semi-voluntary vacation, Akron Police Chief Steve Mylett said.
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