Outrage after Akron police shoot unarmed Black man more than 60 times

Published 2022-07-04
A state of emergency has been called in Akron, Ohio, amid protests over the fatal police shooting of Jayland Walker, an unarmed Black man who was shot more than 60 times after fleeing what police said was a routine traffic stop. Elise Preston reports.

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All Comments (21)
  • @DaVid-lw1xc
    Why is the video titled unarmed black man shot. He was armed and he fled. If you flee your putting your life in danger.
  • @KG-th3cr
    Funny how an "unarmed" man can manage to shoot at the police.
  • @MrAudio03
    Bro how do y’all get away with lying so frequently? “Unarmed”? Dude had a fully loaded handgun on him.
  • Why does the news freeze the video before all of the gunfire in the chest cameras? If they showed the whole video they would show this young man taking a shooting stance. Come on mainstream media really?
  • It wasn't very routine after he shot at the cops through through the window of his car wile driving away from them..... Everybody seen the video by now.
  • @TheNoirMirror
    Clearly this black angel was wearing a ski mask as to protect his identity as the neighborhood superhero, donating to the poor and homeless in the early morning when they're all asleep. He didn't shoot at police as much as trying to tell them to stop using Morse Code with gunshots. Evidently, there was a cat stuck in a tree nearby that caused him to leap out of his moving car in the presence of eight police officers, running long enough to motion for his Rescuer's badge tucked into the waistband of his boxers.
  • @chuckb9867
    Wasn't the man shooting at the police and they shot at him he fought the law and the law won
  • If ten cops each fire six shots, that’s sixty shots; the man fired out of his car, then ran; what were the cops supposed to do?
  • You make it sound like he didn't put the public in danger with his incredibly reckless driving or shoot at officers who pulled him over. That's shameless reporting right there ladies and gents!
  • @VirtueCry
    He fired a shot, came out of the vehicle, they tried to taze him, but he avoids it, and then he reaches down to his waist like he was getting his gun, and then he is shot.
  • The title is extremely misleading. The guy shot at police first. He may have dropped his firearm before he was shot but the cops involved had no way of knowing that. All they knew is he had just fired at them moments ago and were not about to take chances.
  • So you’re telling me there was not one telekinetic officer on duty that would have been able to know the suspect left his gun in the car after shooting at them, ramming his car into a police car, and then fleeing the accident with a ski mask? And why didn’t one of the officers Liu kang bicycle kick him instead of shooting him? Everyone knows you can’t be a cop until you can demonstrate an effective bicycle kick smh 🤦‍♂️. And so what if he could have turned around an shot at them again at any moment, it’s not like they can’t slow down time, thus being able to see the bullets in slow motion, allowing the officers to dodge them like they were trained to.
  • CBS cut it out - you know you framed this in a specific way, to get a specific reaction.
  • @Lochwra
    He should not have shot at the cops. He shouldn't have run. I'm tired of criminals being put on the pedestal.
  • @cour4470
    He didn’t pull over - and he shot his gun at police ?! What do you expect