Jayland Walker
Title: World News #69 – Akron Police (Jayland Walker Homicide)
Created: 2022
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CC
Dimensions: 36″x48″
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“The Akron Police Department may not have met a state standard that could have prevented the type of police pursuits that ended in the death of Jayland Walker, an unarmed Black man who was shot 90 times by eight officers.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine had pushed for the standard in 2019 when he asked an influential state policing board to assess vehicle pursuit policies based on recommendations made in 2016 when he was state attorney general.
Ohio’s law enforcement agencies are not required to meet this standard, but the state maintains a certification process and keeps tabs on which departments have fulfilled its conditions.”
– NBCNews, Akron officers may not have pursued or shot Jayland Walker if they had met Ohio standards for police.
“Police officers in Akron, Ohio, shot and killed 25-year-old Jayland Walker in the early hours of Monday, June 27, after they attempted to stop his car for an alleged “traffic and equipment violation.”
Walker suffered more than 60 wounds, according to a preliminary medical examiner’s report. Multiple officers shot at him an estimated 90 times following a car chase. Walker was unarmed at the time he was killed, police said at a news conference on Sunday, July 3.
Video footage released almost a week after the shooting raised many questions about the officers’ conduct and set off protests in Akron, where the mayor declared a state of emergency and issued a curfew on the July Fourth holiday to “preserve peace.””
– Vox, What we know about the deadly police shooting of Jayland Walker.
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