How Black man Jayland Walker was killed by Ohio police in hail of bullets

Jayland Walker killed by Ohio police
Video released on Sunday showed eight police officers in Akron, Ohio, were involved in a shooting that killed an unarmed Black man Jayland Walker.
His body was found with some 60 gunshot wounds after he fled a traffic stop last Monday.
Police played multiple videos at a news conference, one of which they said shows a gunshot being fired from the car driven by Jayland Walker, 25.
He fled in his car after officers attempted to pull him over for a minor traffic violation.
After a chase lasting several minutes, Walker jumped out of the car and ran away from police, the video showed.
Police say it appears he was turning toward officers, who at the time believed he was armed. A gun was later recovered from his car.
The attorney for the Walker family, Bobby DiCello, told reporters on Sunday that he was “very concerned” about the police’s allegation that Walker had fired at officers from his car, and emphasized that there was no justification for his violent death.
“They want to turn him into a masked monster with a gun,” DiCello said. “I ask you, as he’s running away, what is reasonable? To gun him down? No, that’s not reasonable."
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