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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Shot sixty times? Wonder how many bullets that really cost.
It’s looting season, any excuse will do.
>>Walker was killed after being shot at least 60 times by Akron cops following a traffic stop on June 27.
If true, the Akron cops need more range time. With the current prices for ammo, there’s no call for such wastefulness.
This is The Narrative the DNC and their Brandon Media is going to use to steal the Ohio Senate seat this fall.
There is going to be a fight. Let’s get it started and over with.....................
Domestic terrorism with the blessing of government. Stay away unless you’re a Rittenhouse.
60 times?! That’s more than Bonnie and Clyde COMBINED! Umm, that’s murder. I don’t care WTH the guy did.
Jayland walker. So the story was jay walker shot for no reason. No matter what the actual facts are....
That Walker wasn't armed at the moment he was shot by police doesn't really matter, if he, in fact fired first.
Dropping his weapon during the chase doesn't matter!
It’s amazing what mind altering substances can do.
60 TIMES!
More than Bonnie AND Clyde COMBINED!
At least some of those bullets had to be hitting somebody that wasn’t moving. That’s murder.
He was engaged in criminal activity and shot at the police. He got what was coming to him. But of course the black community believes the Law doesn’t apply to them and that any excuse to riot and loot is justified.
Akron burns to the ground. Property values increase.
Akron burns to the ground. Property values increase.
The cops will be crucified if they haven’t been already, based solely on the media reports. Akron won’t have to defund their department; they won’t have a department if these officers don’t get a modicum of due process.
It’s like that barfly known as Albert Koholik . . .
Bad enough they’re trying to make “Comrade Ohio” look like a hero.
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