Jayland Walker's family sued Akron officials and the city's police department on Friday over the 2022 fatal police shooting. The suit seeks at least $45 million.
The eight police officers who shot Jayland Walker last summer used excessive force when they fired 94 bullets at him during a foot chase and participated in a “culture of violence and racism” within Akron’s police department, according to a lawsuit filed in Ohio federal court Friday.
Months after a grand jury declined to indict the unnamed officers in the death of Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, his family is seeking at least $45 million in damages.
A lawsuit by Jayland Walker's family accuses the eight Akron, Ohio, police officers who shot him of excessive force and participating in a "culture of violence and racism."
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