Posted on 07/01/2022 2:23:58 PM PDT by Baladas
Friday marks the third day of protests over the Akron police shooting death of 25-year-old Jayland Walker, an Akron DoorDash driver who was killed by multiple shots following a police chase on Monday.
Previous protests were small, a couple dozen people. But as news of Walker's death spread across the city and national organizations like Black Lives Matter took note, today's protest downtown is expected to grow.
Reporters and photographers from The Akron Beacon Journal will be reporting live from today's protest. Follow their reporting as it unfolds below.
The details surrounding Walker's shootings remain unclear. Police have offered a general outline of what happened, saying officers tried to pull over Walker around 12:30 a.m. Monday in the city's North Hill neighborhood for a traffic and equipment violation. Walker fled, and police chased him just more than 4 minutes across town to the Firestone Park area.
Along the way, police said Walker fired a gun before abandoning his vehicle in a parking lot near the Bridgestone Americas campus. Several officers and police cars arrived on the scene and at least some used stun guns to try to stop Walker before officers opened fire.
Police said they later found a gun in Walker's vehicle.
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Yawn...just another group of fat, ugly, loud-mouth, no-one-wants-to-sleep-with protestors, ahem I mean looters.
It is looting season and any excuse will do.
they dumped 90 rds at him, him him 12 times
12 hits
paid leave for porky mcass face
Reminds me of the section of an indoor range that was normally for cops but would let normies in when there was an overflow in the main section—holes in the ceiling insulation (including a hole almost directly overhead), holes in the walls.....the target downrange was probably the safest spot.
Mostly peaceful riots, murder, arson and insurrection.
Go ahead, Akron. Go head and foul your own nest, then wonder why big companies are moving out or putting any business expansion ‘on hold’.
But the rioters won't wait.
Running from and apparently shooting at police were not the best choices. Were there warrants out on him? Why run for some vehicle equipment problems?
yupper
Sounds like suicide by cop to me, and according to the article his fiance was killed a short time ago
Oh man...
Not another “Pants Down - Don’t Shoot” summer...
Watch what Walker’s attorney told the tv news today after the attorney saw the video of the shooting. Videos shows him running away as the 90 shots rang out. Pleads for peaceful response. Body cam footage to be released on Sunday.
And no one was concerned with the murder of Ethan Leming. When the black community expresses remorse for his murder, maybe I’ll look at the Walker situation.
Was DoorDash really his only hustle?
‘’It is looting season’’
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Yes, it is
Biden’s made me too poor to care.
I have no idea how many deliveries he ever made for DoorDash, but for media purposes just one delivery ever is enough to refer to him as “slain DoorDash driver”.
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