No charges for eight Akron officers involved in Jayland Walker’s death | USA TODAY

A grand jury found the actions of the 8 officers to be justified in the police shooting of Jayland Walker.

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A special grand jury in Summit County Common Pleas Court on Monday returned a no-bill, which means the jurors found the actions of the officers were justified. The jurors heard five days of evidence and testimony and began their deliberations Monday.

The officers, whose names have been withheld by the city, weren’t released after the grand jury’s decision. A spokesman for Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said the attorney general’s office publicly names only officers already identified by their own departments.

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15 comments

    1. @lisa bradford That’s true, asians got us lowly whites covered in most of the important categories 😂

    1. @The Friday Network
      There is not and there cannot be one number in such situations. Six bullets can be too many if they are fired all at once against an injured enemy. A hundred bullets can be fair game if they are kill shots and suppressing fire in regular combat.

      This scenario would definitely fall into “unnecessary harm” clause according to precedent. Spraying ammo beyond military necessity. Is it actually illegal policing? Probably not, at least not in hellscape of arbitrary police violence that is the US now. And that is the point. Police units operate with laxer regulations than literal war combatants. Public officers are expected to treat citizens with less consideration than combatants are expected to treat enemies that are aiming weapons at them.

    2. @The Friday Network
      I’m sorry, I just don’t find the subject of civilians gunned down in the street like that a fit subject for humour. Where I’m studying at the moment the last memories of such shootings were during the blitz. This is not normal. Not in Britain or most of Europe either.
      For a people that go on about how they love their country, you Yanks sure seem quite flippant about what’s actually happening in it.

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