Posted on 07/04/2022 10:07:05 AM PDT by Morgana
Police in Akron, Ohio, unleashed a wave of tear gas on protesters who gathered outside of the city's main courthouse on Sunday night.
Several hundred protesters marched in the city in the hours after the Akron Police Department released the bodycam footage showing the shooting death of 25-year-old Jayland Walker.
Walker was killed after being shot at least 60 times by Akron cops following a traffic stop on June 27.
Riot police used tear gas in response to a protester who was taking down barriers that were set up outside of the police headquarters. Authorities responded by coming out in 'full riot gear,' reports WKYC.
While fleeing the tear gas, protesters began driving their cars on the sidewalk to get around snowplows parked in the road to block off the high street - and some protesters launched smoke bombs in the streets, reports the Akron Beacon Journal.
One protester began breaking the windows of several snowplows whilst a row of dumpsters was also pictured on fire, although there does not appear to be any major damage to property in the city.
WKYC's Neil Fischer said that police used 'at least a dozen' tear gas cans on protesters which resulted in many of the gathered crowd leaving the area. Fisher said that you could smell the tear gas in the air more than 15 minutes after it was used.
Fellow WKYC reporter Emma Henderson tweeted: 'Tear gas is flowing. We were well over a block away from where it was fired and it's in our noses, eyes and throats. Protesters are finding each other water and moving away.'
One protester, who goes by the moniker Comrade Ohio on Twitter, tweeted a video showing a dumpster on fire in the city.
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“that’s murder. I don’t care WTH the guy did.”
There’s a difference between murder and killing. They killed him because he shot at them from the car before he hot-footed it. They would have to assume he still had the gun. They didn’t know he had left it in the car.
Sixty is a lot, but is he any deader after 60 shots than he was after five?
Biden has the mindset that they should shoot criminals in the leg, or so he said a couple years ago. That’s not protocol.
The guy was a criminal and a bum. He had had a similar run-in with cops the day before. Good riddance to him.
BWAHAHAHAH. First you insult me then you use the EXACT SAME STUPID WORDS. If you’re in a shooting you consider self defense and use those EXACT words to a cop, you will be arrested and charged. If you repeat them on the stand you will be convicted.
A soldier in combat cannot be held to the same standards as a man sitting comfortably in his home.
The two exist in different worlds, where different rules apply.
Shall we just dispense with cops and go back to lynching?
Wiki ?
Seriously ?
Wuteva.
Pfft.
Useful idiot tool is what you are.
He might be. Depending on where you hit a guy 5 shots might not be fatal. But you keep plugging and plugging and plugging. If they’d shot him 5 times and he’d died I’d be OK, that’s rolling your dice and taking your chances. But 60 shows intent. That’s a lot of people pulling triggers a lot of times. That’s “make sure he’s dead”. And that’s murder.
Also according to the other article, he was shot while running while wearing a ski mask after reaching towards his waist, turning and extending an arm as though preparing to fire at the police. And that was after running from police for several minutes in his car and appearing to have fired at them from the car.
If the police had been perfect, they would have put roughly 90 rounds into him. But no one is perfect in close, dark, fast circumstances. They did well under those circumstances. There were reportedly 13 officers present with possibly around 6 or 7 firing at the crook.
As for the riot fueled by large amygdalae, oh well... Different strokes for different folks. To flow with the whole “Idiocracy” environment, react by making a passion play about it or something. Maybe watch “WALL-E” again.
The Kinks - Destroyer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WJ6FbcWYRU
Real events dude. Real murders. Ignoring them because of the most convenient link is being a useful idiot. Look up the people’s names, find the incidents in other sources if you insist. The facts don’t change. Unarmed people, complying people. Murdered people.
Is there really a difference between casual execution without trial by civilians and by uniformed police? That’s the problem, far too often cops ARE lynch mobs.
You’re a stinking Bolshevik.
DNC pay well ?
Here it is.
https://apnews.com/article/police-shootings-ohio-akron-829de644001793209e1c2dc3b2e22ca3
They also found the cartridge case where he fired from his vehicle.
All you have is insults. Silly unrelated ones at that.
Look up the people. Look up the events. Explain to me why I shouldn’t consider them murdered. Explain to me why WE shouldn’t fear the exact same thing happening to us.
Prove me wrong.
Go ahead.
Find the facts.
Make your case.
If all you’ve got is insults then we BOTH know you’re full of it. And I’m right.
Of course we already both know that.
And there’s this. A real gamester, he was.
Akron man with history of fleeing from police accused of leading four police agencies on chase to Cleveland (video)
https://www.cleveland.com/akron/2015/03/akron_man_with_history_of_flee.html
did he shoot at the police? Ski mask on? led them on a chase, too?
I’m not crying for the thug.
But his family will get rich ala Floyd.
Umm, no. And even less so in the dark of night. Cops were reasonable in shooting to stop, maybe less reasonable in the actual round count, but recall, it was a large handful of officers all threatened with unlawful lethal force. Everyone of them was reasonable in shooting to stop the threat. It adds up ...
Do right, walk tall.
You are deluded.
This guy put lives at danger with a car,
Put lives in danger shooting out his window
And you defend him.
You are a puke.
You don’t have a clue, do you?
You just proved me right again.
And you also lied.
I haven’t defended him. I just don’t like summary execution.
More than you.
A number of officers were chasing him, on foot.
They shot a tazer at him, but it failed.
He turned back towards the police and started to raise his right hand, when a number of officers fired at the same time.
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