Summit County officials have released new details about the fatal police shooting of Jayland Walker. Here's how residents are reacting
Also today, residents responded. “It’s somewhat understandable. It’s like anybody chasing somebody in a life and death situation, the blood pressure gets up. Somebody made a mistake firing all those shots. It’s really horrible.”
Justin Bratcher said, “This is a people issue. If people started looking at people like people we won’t have Jayland Walkers. Content of character not color of skin? Exactly.” Marshorie Davis, “I know they want to talk about his fleeing but they can make all the excuses in the world, but nobody needs to be shot that many times.”
Now that Jayland has been buried and his autopsy results have been released, the focus turns to the eight Akon police officers who shot and killed him, none of whom have been publicly identified.
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