Earlier this week, police in Akron, Ohio, fired nearly 100 bullets at a young, black suspect, and city officials are preparing themselves for a possibly violent backlash from the community and elsewhere.
According to reports, police attempted to pull Jayland Walker over shortly after midnight on Monday morning, when he suddenly took off and led them on a high-speed chase for several minutes. They say he then attempted to flee on foot and at some point discharged a weapon.
A summary of the events posted to the Akron Police Department Facebook page claims that “actions by the suspect caused the officers to perceive he posed a deadly threat to them. In response to this threat, officers discharged their firearms, striking the suspect.”
He died shortly thereafter.
Sources told WKYC-TV that while no gun was found on Walker after he was killed, a gun and multiple shell casings were recovered from his vehicle.
All they need, in addition to the found gun and shell casings, is evidence that he discharged a weapon during this incident…
If that evidence shows up – it will be clear to me that the thug got what he deserved…
If a policeman’s life doesn’t matter to you and you intend to harm him, how can you be angry when that policeman harms you instead.
All lives matter!
I am in no way saying this man deserved to get shot. This could have been avoided by him pulling over when the police initiated the traffic stop. Don’t lead the police on a high speed chase, fire a weapon at them out of your window then while running away on foot turn around quickly and face them. They already think you are carrying a gun because you fired one at them earlier. The city of Akron will pay the price because some idiot cannot act within the law.
Had he simply stayed in his car and complied their instructions he would be alive. His actions are what got him killed.
This story certainly is horrible. And it seems, at least on the face of things, to have been literal overkill. But I just don’t understand why people who police attempt to stop just don’t comply. Time and time again, part of these stories involve refusal to comply with lawful authority, resisting physically (which threatens the involved police officers) or attempts to flee. Even if the stop is wrongful, illigitimate, illegal, wouldn’t it be safer (statistically) to comply with the police to preserve your life? Fight the legal fight afterwards, but live? Why do people try to resist, escape, or worse? I just don’t understand. Can anyone explain it to me?
10:41, I can explain. Since Obummer reignited the burned out flame that is racism, a certain demographic has a feeling they’re above the law, as they should since we’ve bent over backwards to appease them, from welfare, to reparations, to “no merit required” as long as your skin is the right color etc., etc., etc. At this point the majority of the 13% cannot comply and or refuse to. So at the end of the day this is what you get. However, since it is clearly evident to any human being living in this great nation that this isn’t the answer I rest assure the tide will change for the better. At the same time since the Biden administration has ran the country into the ground it is peaceful not hearing any waste of air input from the clowns known as the “squad”!
someone needs to go back to the range
This is the risk you run when you don’t comply with the officer’s orders! As it should be!!