“The video you’re about to watch is heartbreaking,' Akron's mayor said.
“I’ve talked about being beyond outraged and beyond shocked,” Horrigan told reporters. “The video you’re about to watch is heartbreaking.”
reported. After a few minutes, Walker slowed down his car and fled on foot wearing a ski mask while the vehicle was still moving. Officers then chased Walker into a parking lot, police 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,” Mylett told reporters Sunday.
Capt. Dave Laughlin of the Akron Police Department said Walker’s actions “caused the officers to perceive he posed a deadly threat to them,”reported. He said officers first used tasers and then opened fire in response, striking Walker multiple times and fatally wounding him. DiCello said he was unhappy with the way Akron officials presented information during Sunday’s news conference, according to the“They want to turn him into a masked monster with a gun. And we knew that,” DiCello told the newspaper.“If Jayland reflects the character of this family, which I continually heard that he did, you raised a good son.”. In 2015, he graduated from Buchtel High School in Akron, where he was on the wrestling team.
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