New body camera video shows the confrontational Jayland Walker protest in Akron where police used pepper spray and tear gas on marchers.
Days after the protest, the city was banned by a federal court order from using chemical irritants on non-violent protesters.
“I think we’re going to have to deploy munitions down at Copley and East. They just gathered down there. It will be a push until we get them to disperse,” an officer said.Two days earlier, a grand jury declined to indict eight officers for killing Jayland Walker. News 5 again wanted to know what Chief Steve Mylett says about this. We’ve been asking to talk with him since the protest last Wednesday. On Saturday, Akron police posted the chief’s video message and some body camera video, but provided no opportunity to ask questions.
“There were expletives thrown at the officers; there were objects thrown at the officers,” Ture said. In the chief’s video message, he said officers gave orders for the crowd to leave before using chemical irritants and that police stayed out of the way for close to two hours.
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