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Video released on Sunday showed eight police officers in Akron,
Ohio, were involved in a shooting that killed 25-year-old
Jayland Walker, whose body was found with some 60 gunshot wounds
after he fled a traffic stop last week.
Police played multiple videos at a news conference, one of which
they said showed 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 of several minutes, Walker jumped out of the car
and ran from police, the video showed. Police said it appears he
was turning toward officers, who at the time believed he was
armed. A gun was later recovered from his car.
The Walker shooting marks the latest in a series of police
killings of unarmed Black men, raising questions about police
use of force and equal justice for African Americans, and
contributing to U.S. polarization.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw; Editing by Leslie
Adler and Will Dunham)
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