Officials say eight Ohio police officers who fired scores of shots that killed Jayland Walker after a car and foot chase last year are back on active duty. Akron Capt. Michael Miller cited a state investigation and an Ohio grand jury’s decision against indicting any officers in the 25-year-old Black man's June 2022 death.
Akron Capt. Michael Miller, in a statement, cited a state investigation and an Ohio grand jury’s decision against indicting any officers in the June 2022 shooting death of Walker. As a result, he said, “all eight officers are back on full-time, active duty.”
Walker family attorney Bobby DiCello told WKYC-TV that the family is “saddened by the way in which they continue to be ignored” by the city of Akron, whose leaders, he said, have “never once reached out to discuss the employment of the eight officers or explain why the officers are being reinstated.
The officers, not knowing that Walker had left his gun in the car, believed he was going to fire again, Yost said., a Summit County grand jury declined to indict the eight officers, who fired a total of 94 shots in just under seven seconds, hitting Walker 46 times. The officers, whose identities haven’t been released, were put on leave following the shooting and then reinstated to desk duty in October 2022.a $45 million lawsuit against the city and the department.
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