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Jayland Walker: Autopsy shows black man 'shot or grazed' 46 times
Akron is the fifth-largest city in Ohio, the USA with a population of about 190,000. It is racially diverse with nearly 60% of the residents being White and 30% being Black or African Americans. On June 27, a 25-year-old black man was stopped by Ohio Police. He was wearing a ski mask and jumped out of the moving car. While he was trying to escape into a parking lot, he was shot and killed by the eight police officers, seven of whom were white and one was black. An autopsy found 46 gunshot wounds on his body. 46 wounds by pistols, not by machine guns! This means each officer fired multiple good shots, possibly even after he was down. It is not clear how many more shots were fired that missed him. The local police union believed that the officers acted in line with their training. So, this is how police officers are trained in the US where people are allowed buy and carry guns by the constitution.
Read the article and think if police officers should shoot to kill an overpowered and surrounded suspect.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62184202
Jayland Walker: Autopsy shows black man 'shot or grazed' 46 times
Akron is the fifth-largest city in Ohio, the USA with a population of about 190,000. It is racially diverse with nearly 60% of the residents being White and 30% being Black or African Americans. On June 27, a 25-year-old black man was stopped by Ohio Police. He was wearing a ski mask and jumped out of the moving car. While he was trying to escape into a parking lot, he was shot and killed by the eight police officers, seven of whom were white and one was black. An autopsy found 46 gunshot wounds on his body. 46 wounds by pistols, not by machine guns! This means each officer fired multiple good shots, possibly even after he was down. It is not clear how many more shots were fired that missed him. The local police union believed that the officers acted in line with their training. So, this is how police officers are trained in the US where people are allowed buy and carry guns by the constitution.
Read the article and think if police officers should shoot to kill an overpowered and surrounded suspect.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62184202
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