A grand jury has voted not to indict eight Ohio police officers who fired dozens of rounds at Jayland Walker after a car and foot chase that ended in the 25-year-old Black man being shot to death last summer
AKRON, Ohio — — Eight police officers who fired dozens of rounds at Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, following a car and foot chase will not face criminal charges in his death because a grand jury declined to indict them, Ohio’s attorney general announced Monday.sparked protests in Akron after police released body camera footage showing him dying in a hail of gunfire.
State Attorney General Dave Yost, whose office took over the prosecution at the request of Akron police and presented the case to a grand jury, announced the decision Monday. The blurry body camera footage did not clearly show what authorities say was a threatening gesture Walker made before he was shot. Police chased him for about 10 seconds before officers fired from multiple directions, a burst of shots that lasts 6 or 7 seconds.
Walker's death received widespread attention from activists, including from the family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The NAACP and an attorney for Walker's familyPresident Joe Biden responded during a trip to Ohio last summer by saying the DOJ was monitoring the case.
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