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Split Thread Akron police shoot unarmed man 60 times

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This one in Akron will probably warrant a thread on its own. My first info on it was the released bodycam footage. It looked pretty standard until the end, when (already verified) eight police officers shot an unarmed man at least 60 times. I thought the chief said "16 times" even though I'd heard the footage. I mean, it's like that demonstration scene in Robocop that was total overkill -- I even went "Holy ******" when I saw it.

Usually I can (and do) speculate on what may have happened, due to initial flimsy reports or possible flat-out lying, but I can't even imaging what kind of scenario would warrant that kind of firepower response. The family's calling for peaceful protest but I think this one will inevitably escalate.
 
alfaniner said:
This one in Akron will probably warrant a thread on its own. My first info on it was the released bodycam footage. It looked pretty standard until the end, when (already verified) eight police officers shot an unarmed man at least 60 times. I thought the chief said "16 times" even though I'd heard the footage. I mean, it's like that demonstration scene in Robocop that was total overkill -- I even went "Holy ******" when I saw it.

Usually I can (and do) speculate on what may have happened, due to initial flimsy reports or possible flat-out lying, but I can't even imaging what kind of scenario would warrant that kind of firepower response. The family's calling for peaceful protest but I think this one will inevitably escalate.
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16 times or 60 times, he appears to have earned it.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/03/1109624745/jayland-walker-akron-ohio

People never learn. Well, you won't have to tell him twice.
 
Warp12 said:
16 times or 60 times, he appears to have earned it.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/03/1109624745/jayland-walker-akron-ohio

People never learn. Well, you won't have to tell him twice.
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The portion of the story where the police chief reports that the officers were kept apart so they couldn’t get their stories to match is an obvious lie. There is zero chance that that actually happened.

Cops just can’t help lying about these shootings even when there is no obvious apparent reason to do so.
 
I heard about this on NPR. What they described is similar to the article: Cops wanted to pull over a vehicle, the driver did not comply, the suspect fired a shot out the window, he exited the still-moving vehicle with a ski mask on, something about a taser, the suspect may have made a suspicious movement, then the police absolutely pumped him full of lead. So, I'm trying to process all of that when they cut to an interview with a protestor saying he's fighting for justice because that chalk outline could have been him. Could it have been you? You don't pull over when you get lit up? You have a summer ski mask and a gun? You'd fire a shot out of your car? You'd try to out-run the cops on foot? Are you suicidal?

You could have been Trayvon Martin. You could have been Philando Castile. You could have been Tyisha Miller. You could be and maybe have been someone harassed by the police. All of Jayland Walker's behavior seems to run contrary to what's covered in "the talk."
 
The Mayor of Akron called the incident "heartbreaking". I'm not sure which adjectives I'd use to describe what happened, but heartbreaking is definitely not on the list.

Now if he would have hit and seriously injured of killed innocent passers-by during the car chase, that would have been heartbreaking.

60 shots does seem like a lot, but I've got better things to worry about.
 
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Even though Jayland Walker was unarmed at the time he was killed, he obviously was not unarmed when he was pulled over. The police would have reason to believe at the time Walker left his vehicle he was armed and prepared to fire. In my opinion, that should have led to a standoff and not free-for-all shootout.

"An armed society is a polite society.," Yeah, right. An armed society is a paranoid society, where people are prepared to shoot first lest they be shot.
 
Another tale of sorry-ass **** ups on both sides.

One, wearing a ski mask, shoots at police during a freaking traffic stop. Suicide warrant signed.

The cops go full-on shooting gallery, insuring the public will never trust them again.

I just hate people.
 
Maybe that leaves 59 other perps the cops won't feel the need to shoot?
 
I noticed the victim is being described as unarmed in the news headline, but that an "unloaded" gun was later found in his vehicle and that police report being fired on first.

Any or all of that may be false, of course, but I do find it interesting how he's continually described as "unarmed" in the headlines. Is a gun that's fired all its bullets "unloaded" or "empty"? I would say there's a distinction to be made here if indeed it had been fired.
 
8 cops, so about 8 shots apiece?if the suspect hadn't dropped to the ground yet, I think the police are supposed to keep shooting till he drops, aren't they? The thing that makes it so weird is why there were 8 cops. One cop firing 8 times before the guy falls sort of makes sense. Why were 8 cops at the scene of a traffic stop?
 
Ron Obvious said:
I noticed the victim is being described as unarmed in the news headline, but that an "unloaded" gun was later found in his vehicle and that police report being fired on first.

Any or all of that may be false, of course, but I do find it interesting how he's continually described as "unarmed" in the headlines. Is a gun that's fired all its bullets "unloaded" or "empty"? I would say there's a distinction to be made here if indeed it had been fired.
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The gun was unloaded, but it's loaded magazine was right next to it, along with a spent casing. Not "unloaded" in the way they are making it out to sound.
 
Thermal said:
8 cops, so about 8 shots apiece?if the suspect hadn't dropped to the ground yet, I think the police are supposed to keep shooting till he drops, aren't they? The thing that makes it so weird is why there were 8 cops. One cop firing 8 times before the guy falls sort of makes sense. Why were 8 cops at the scene of a traffic stop?
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There’s video available from following one of the links above. It was a traffic stop, he took off, reportedly fired, then after the car chase ran out the passenger side on foot wearing a ski mask. So the car chase explains the 8 officers. 60 shots still seems bit excessive, but lots of them were fired simultaneously.
 
sarge said:
The portion of the story where the police chief reports that the officers were kept apart so they couldn’t get their stories to match is an obvious lie. There is zero chance that that actually happened.

Cops just can’t help lying about these shootings even when there is no obvious apparent reason to do so.
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I know that police chief. When I first heard his name I thought, ****, did this happen in Bellevue? :eek: He was the police chief here in Bellevue for a number of years. I gave him a hep B vaccination.

When I checked on our police chief I saw that he left here for a job in Ohio last year. What a one year anniversary, a police shooting and a rowdy protest following it.

About keeping 8 officers apart, that would be very difficult. If they planted the gun, they would all be aware to lie about that. But if the gun can be tied to the victim, and it had been fired, that would support the claim they thought the victim was armed. If they fired the weapon themselves there would be suspicious missing body cam footage. Lots of things that could trip them up.

But one thing I will say about Chief Mylett, he released the body cam footage right away. He didn't sit on it like a lot of police chiefs have done with similar circumstances.
 
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I know that police chief. When I first heard his name I thought, ****, did this happen in Bellevue? :eek: He was the police chief here in Bellevue for a number of years. I gave him a hep B vaccination.

When I checked on our police chief I saw that he left here for a job in Ohio last year. What a one year anniversary, a police shooting and a rowdy protest following it.

About keeping 8 officers apart, that would be very difficult. If they planted the gun, they would all be aware to lie about that. But if the gun can be tied to the victim, and it had been fired, that would support the claim they thought the victim was armed. If they fired the weapon themselves there would be suspicious missing body cam footage. Lots of things that could trip them up.

But one thing I will say about Chief Mylett, he released the body cam footage right away. He didn't sit on it like a lot of police chiefs have done with similar circumstances.
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All 8 of the cops were together in same spot for some amount of time in the immediate aftermath of the chase and shooting. There is no chance that they didn’t discuss the events and norm their story. The Chief lied about that.

That the cops were able to talk amongst themselves about what had just happened doesn’t mean that they made any of this up. It isn’t evidence that they did anything wrong. The Chief lying about the cops being segregated before they had a chance to ‘get their story together’ is just how cops do things.
 
This looks bad for the cops, but I will wait until we know more rather then make a instand decision based on political ideology in this case ie. the police are bad.
 
dudalb said:
So you approve the idea of cops acting as judge jury and excutioner?
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Under the conditions of a known shooter, wearing a ski mask in summer, running away? I approve of cops protecting the public by shooting him.

NOT 60 times.

I figure some departments have the policy "if everybody shoots him, there are bound to be multiple possibly lethal wounds. Which ever officer killed him will be unknown." Less personal remorse, less likely to get singled out for retribution. Because such a policy is the only reason I can see for 60 hits. and how many misses? Do we have a total number of shots fired?
 
Ron Obvious said:
I noticed the victim is being described as unarmed in the news headline, but that an "unloaded" gun was later found in his vehicle and that police report being fired on first.

Any or all of that may be false, of course, but I do find it interesting how he's continually described as "unarmed" in the headlines. Is a gun that's fired all its bullets "unloaded" or "empty"? I would say there's a distinction to be made here if indeed it had been fired.
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According to the NPR article referenced above, he was shot while he attempted to flee the vehicle on foot. If the gun was found in the car, then he was unarmed at the time of the shooting (even if he had access to the firearm before.)

I think this says so much about the state of policing in the U.S. At one point the majority might have given the benefit of the doubt to the police. (They're the professionals, they have to react quickly, etc.) But we have seem so many cases of questionable shootings, so many cases where the cops circle the wagons when one of them is accused of overstepping their bounds. We have seen the video of them pushing around BLM protesters. We have seen at least a few of them support the alt-right. Police supporters suggest the bad ones are just a 'few bad apples', but they have no interest in actually getting rid of the problem ones. So at this point, people no longer trust that the police acted appropriately.

Even if the police shot him for legitimate reasons, all of their previous abuses mean that the default will no longer be to "trust the police", but to assume "they screwed up again".
 
Lots here that does not seem to make sense with just the info we have. Waiting on details to clear this up.

1.) Cops fired 90 bullets and hit 60 times. From what has been collected from various sources about police marksmanship, it is unlikely they would hit with 60% of their rounds. They just are not that good.

2.) His gun was found unloaded. But there was a shell casing in the car. So in the middle of a chase he pulled out the magazine and cleared the weapon? Really?

3.) He was wearing a ski mask. Why? He was being pulled over for a traffic stop. So when did the mask come on? While he was driving? Before they tried to stop him? While he was running away after unloading the gun?

Maybe we are just missing details here. But the story as reported is a bit of a challenge to take at face value.
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
Let’s get serious, though. Does it really matter whether someone was shot 15 times or 60 times?
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If lethal force was justified, which it sure seems like it was, I couldn't care less. It kinda makes me laugh thinking about it, like the death of Santino in The Godfather.
 
casebro said:
Under the conditions of a known shooter, wearing a ski mask in summer, running away? I approve of cops protecting the public by shooting him.

NOT 60 times.

I figure some departments have the policy "if everybody shoots him, there are bound to be multiple possibly lethal wounds. Which ever officer killed him will be unknown." Less personal remorse, less likely to get singled out for retribution. Because such a policy is the only reason I can see for 60 hits. and how many misses? Do we have a total number of shots fired?
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No one cop fired 60 times. It looks like each fired until their clips were empty. None of them are reported to have reloaded, so far anyway. And 60 holes could be 30 through and through shots.

I'm not saying this wasn't the typical, he's black, shoot first scenario, with all the things that suck along with that. But it's unlikely he was shot 60 times.

Was it overkill? Probably. But we don't need hyperbole when these things are bad enough without it.
 
Doubt said:
Lots here that does not seem to make sense with just the info we have. Waiting on details to clear this up.

1.) Cops fired 90 bullets and hit 60 times. From what has been collected from various sources about police marksmanship, it is unlikely they would hit with 60% of their rounds. They just are not that good.

2.) His gun was found unloaded. But there was a shell casing in the car. So in the middle of a chase he pulled out the magazine and cleared the weapon? Really?
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The traffic cam supposedly showed a flash while the car was in motion. It's not hard to release a magazine with one hand and have it fall out. And if you fired then dumped the clip without cocking the gun, that would have left the chamber empty.

All of that happened or could have happened before he stopped the vehicle.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
The traffic cam supposedly showed a flash while the car was in motion. It's not hard to release a magazine with one hand and have it fall out. And if you fired then dumped the clip without cocking the gun, that would have left the chamber empty.

All of that happened or could have happened before he stopped the vehicle.
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I have more than a little experience with guns. Removing the magazine from a semiautomatic hand gun does not unload it. If he had fired there would be a round in the chamber unless the gun malfunctioned when it was fired. To have unloaded it he would have to remove the magazine and then clear the chamber. No cocking involved here. The gun does that by itself.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
.... And if you fired then dumped the clip without cocking the gun, that would have left the chamber empty.

All of that happened or could have happened before he stopped the vehicle.
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No, semi-autos, those with magazines, self-cock when they automatically reload. Yes, you can drop the mag one handed, but clearing a jam/recocking takes two hands. Not easy during a car chase. I suspect the gun jammed after one shot, or he would have fired more.

Most criminals have little to no firearms training.
 
casebro said:
No, semi-autos, those with magazines, self-cock when they automatically reload. Yes, you can drop the mag one handed, but clearing a jam/recocking takes two hands. Not easy during a car chase. I suspect the gun jammed after one shot, or he would have fired more.

Most criminals have little to no firearms training.
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Something that occurred to me is that if a guy has literally no idea how to manually clear a round, he might drop the mag and fire the chambered round to unload it. In which case, he might not have been shooting at the cops, but just being genuinely stupid.

I know that clearing the chamber is not exactly brain surgery, but if a criminal's experience is little more than point and pull, he might not have the mechanical sense to do anything but fire to unload the chambered round.
 
casebro said:
No, semi-autos, those with magazines, self-cock when they automatically reload. Yes, you can drop the mag one handed, but clearing a jam/recocking takes two hands. Not easy during a car chase. I suspect the gun jammed after one shot, or he would have fired more.

Most criminals have little to no firearms training.
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Speculating on his actions does not lead to any sort of logical conclusions that I can see so far. Shooting the weapon but then unloading it does not make much sense. He gains nothing by doing that even if he wants to surrender. It costs time but that is about it.

Releasing the magazine by mistake might be an issue but not all that likely outside of it being the least bad explanation I can come up with. That still only makes sense if he lost track of where the magazine went after release.

First shot jam is possible but again seems not all that likely. Unjamming would be difficult while driving but not impossible.

Depending on the gun, it might even be possible to re-cock with the gun braced by the knees or butt and seat but this is obviously more than a little dangerous to the shooter and even then he would have to think about it.

At this point I would not put any bets for or against and any explanation including that he actually fired on the police.
 
Thermal said:
Something that occurred to me is that if a guy has literally no idea how to manually clear a round, he might drop the mag and fire the chambered round to unload it. In which case, he might not have been shooting at the cops, but just being genuinely stupid.

I know that clearing the chamber is not exactly brain surgery, but if a criminal's experience is little more than point and pull, he might not have the mechanical sense to do anything but fire to unload the chambered round.
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Good point. He could have released the magazine first.
 
Doubt said:
Speculating on his actions does not lead to any sort of logical conclusions that I can see so far. Shooting the weapon but then unloading it does not make much sense. He gains nothing by doing that even if he wants to surrender. It costs time but that is about it.

Releasing the magazine by mistake might be an issue but not all that likely outside of it being the least bad explanation I can come up with. That still only makes sense if he lost track of where the magazine went after release.

First shot jam is possible but again seems not all that likely. Unjamming would be difficult while driving but not impossible.

Depending on the gun, it might even be possible to re-cock with the gun braced by the knees or butt and seat but this is obviously more than a little dangerous to the shooter and even then he would have to think about it.

At this point I would not put any bets for or against and any explanation including that he actually fired on the police.
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There was a suggestion in one report that he shot toward the ground.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Good point. He could have released the magazine first.
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Yeah. While you and I and many on the forum were taught responsible gun handling, I strongly think the average criminal has no idea. They buy their gun, legally or no, and off to the races they go. I often wonder if they even know about cleaning and other basic maintanence.
 
Several things to note

1. The suspect fired at the cops when they tried to pull him over.

2. The suspect emerged from the car wearing a ski-mask.

3. The suspect fled from the scene.

Now, as most here will know, when the police shoot an unarmed person, I would usually weigh in on the side of the suspect... but not this time!

There is no reason whatsoever for the Police not to believe he was still armed, so at this point, he represents a danger to the public. If they had let him get away, and he had managed to break into a local business, or a residence........ or a school, and started killing people, we'd be the first ones to be questioning why the police didn't shoot him when they had the chance.
 
arthwollipot said:
Would that be a reason why a gun might jam?
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Yup

https://www.faac.com/blog/2018/01/2...types-causes-what-to-do-how-to-fix-a-gun-jam/

On the range, a “jam” is broad term frequently used to refer to several different firearms malfunctions people encounter. Poor technique, faulty rounds, and mechanical problems lead to a number of reasons as to why the gun got jammed. You can reduce the odds of having your weapon jam by routinely cleaning your firearm. ​
 
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