The young man who was fatally shot by the police while running away was reportedly being stopped over a traffic violation.
On June 25, 25-year-old Jayland Walker led the police on a chase after they allegedly tried to pull him over for a traffic violation.
Following several minutes of a high-speed pursuit, Walker came to a stop at a parking lot only to exit his car and attempt to run away on foot.
While pursuing the suspect, eight cops opened fire and shot the young man in the back at least 60 times. According to some reports, evidence suggests that as many as 90 bullets were fired in the span of just a few seconds after the police started shooting at the suspect.
The authorities have since released shocking bodycam footage showing the suspect being shot dozens of times.
Following the brutal encounter, the police claimed that Walker shot at them first and that he posed a “deadly threat.”
The Walker family’s lawyer, however, blasted police claims and said the young man was executed in cold blood while trying to run away unarmed.
“The officer bails out of his car and you see Jayland run, as if he were a football player running for the end zone. He’s out there by himself running across the parking lot and within seconds a hail of gunfire. It sounds like a package, a whole package, a whole brick of fireworks going off,” Attorney Bobby DiCello said.
“You see smoke … and you see an officer actually drop his clip and reload and in the time that it takes him … he reloads and in that time the firing is done. I think the firing happens in about six seconds. It was an unbelievable amount of gunfire.”
The attorney further argued that bodycam footage proves Walker didn’t make any threats to the officers after leaving his vehicle and running away.
“There is no stopping and turning around. There’s no making his hand into the shape of a gun. There’s no holding his cellphone. He has nothing in his hands,” DiCello added.
“He is just in a down sprint when he is dropped by I think the count is more than 90 shots. His body is just riddled with bullets, his face is shot with bullets, the body where it hits the ground is shot … it’s an unbelievable scene.”
According to the family’s attorney, he did not see any evidence suggesting that the cops’ claims that Walker fired at them first were true.
“In my 22 years of doing trial work, both as a former prosecutor for Cuyahoga County and as a civil rights attorney on many serious cases of lethal use of force, I have never in my life seen anything like this, ever. It is very, very disturbing,” DiCello expressed.
“I don’t know how the media is going to actually put it on the air. We’re going to ask police what de-escalation measures were taken.
“Now how many of those land, according to our investigation right now, we’re getting details that suggest 60 to 80 wounds.”
Following the shooting, police officers involved in the incident were placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.
Meanwhile, the authorities began preparing for potential riots stemming from the death of the young man at the hands of the police.
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