8 officers involved in Jayland Walker's shooting death are back on active duty, officials say

The eight Ohio police officers who fired scores of shots that killed Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, after a car and foot chase last year are back on active duty, officials said.

Akron Capt. Michael Miller, in a statement, cited a state investigation and an Ohio grand jury’s decision against indicting any officers in the June 2022 shooting death of Walker. As a result, he said, “all eight officers are back on full-time, active duty.”

Miller also said the department’s internal probe of the shooting is going through a final legal review and is expected to be released at the end of November.

Walker family attorney Bobby DiCello told WKYC-TV that the family is “saddened by the way in which they continue to be ignored” by the city of Akron, whose leaders, he said, have “never once reached out to discuss the employment of the eight officers or explain why the officers are being reinstated.”

brihuang95,
@brihuang95@sopuli.xyz avatar

can we just agree that people need to be held accountable for their actions? tired, tired, tired of people doing stupid shit and getting away with it.

nonailsleft,

I get the sentiment but most people agree that there is some space between ‘getting away with it’ and getting gunned down on the street

be_excellent_to_each_other,
@be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social avatar

Can we agree that this should be true for cops, too?

CmdrShepard,

I think that’s exactly who they’re talking about.

wolfeh,
@wolfeh@lemmy.world avatar

Just a friendly reminder that it’s inappropriate to compare cops to pigs.

Pigs are intelligent, and very emotionally aware.

Breezy,

Pigs also taste good! Cops dont have enough money to be worth eating.

girlfreddy,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

ACAB.

synceDD,
@synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

Hating an entire profession, when was the last time you talked to one? That’s right, never. Terminally online

theuberwalrus,

Fuck off, bootlicker

synceDD,
@synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

You wouldnt dare utter these things irl, keep hiding keyboard warrior

theuberwalrus,

Ok, bootlicker

synceDD,
@synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll assume the walrus is an irl reference, keep barking keyboard warrior

theuberwalrus,

Ok, bootlicker

MotoAsh,

Yes I would you fucking coward, don’t project your insecurities on to us like cops do, you pathetic worm. You gonna’ fight me over having a different opinion? You must hate the first amendment. Maybe you’re living in the wrong country if you don’t like people being able to speak ill of the government or its “services”.

Fucking pathetic coward, afraid of four letters.

synceDD,
@synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

Nice rant keyboard warrior did it increase your serotonin levels?

NOT_RICK,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

No U

havokdj,

oH, kEyBoArD wArRiOr, KeYbOaRd WaRrIoR

Shut the fuck up, go back to 2011. Yes, not all cops are bad, most law enforcement are either fundamentally useless or flat out corrupt.

I, along with others, called the cops on a group of individuals who were blasting up and down a two lane street in our town, waving guns out the windows. The bitches drove by, never flashed their lights, and drove off.

Guess what those kids proceeded to do? So yes, fuck cops.

synceDD,
@synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

Nice anecdote time to hate on everyone, very intelligent of you

havokdj,

Point out where I said “everyone”

synceDD,
@synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

I was talking about everyone and you reply to me with an anecdote, today we learnt how a conversation works 🤠

MotoAsh,

The projection from you is seriously pathetic. Try maturing past twelve, bootlicker.

synceDD,
@synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

Only types insults, calls me 12, keep projecting keyboard warrior

MotoAsh,

It’s OK you don’t believe. It won’t make you correct.

TheGoldenV,

This is the way.

KnowledgeableNip,

I smell bacon

synceDD,
@synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

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    AngryCommieKender,

    I tell cops to their face to “get the fuck out of my neighborhood. We don’t like organized crime here.” Every time they harass my neighbors. Try again. You’re in the minority and supporting the mob.

    I also call them “Criminals On Patrol” to their faces.

    synceDD,
    @synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

    Nice anecdote let’s apply it to everyone, very intelligent of you

    AngryCommieKender,

    Everyone should tell gangsters to their face to leave.

    circuscritic,

    You can’t escalate to “I’d kick your ass IRL” AND call him a “keyboard warrior” in the same sentence. Well, unless you’re really, incredibly, and breathtakingly stupid - which, I think is a pretty good assumption at this point.

    synceDD,
    @synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

    I never threatened with violence, not sure if lack of reading comprehension or strawmanning, you’re pathetic anyway

    LordGimp,

    I work with cops everyday. ACAB

    synceDD,
    @synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

    Your locals suck therefore everyone sucks too. Thank you for your anecdote you sound very intelligent

    girlfreddy,
    @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

    Some 🧀 with your whine.

    synceDD,
    @synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

    Nice retort and you replied to a different comment to avoid telling me you havent even talked to an officer. Stay terminally online.

    girlfreddy,
    @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

    🧀🧀🧀

    ajmaxwell,
    @ajmaxwell@lemmy.world avatar

    Those cops routinely treat citizens like they’re criminals regardless of the situation.

    Why not treat them the same way they treat us?

    synceDD,
    @synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

    Us? How have they treated you so far?

    andyburke,
    @andyburke@fedia.io avatar

    If you're a good cop, it's hard to imagine given the way you're here, online, apparently advocating for them. Instead, you should start to change the culture in your department from one of dominance and control to one of service.

    If you're just someone who apologized for cops online, maybe you should spend less time online.

    TheMightyCanuck,

    Lmao I read this whole thread… you have the most piss poor, smooth brain comebacks I’ve ever seen 🤡

    synceDD,
    @synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

    Replying to just insult without arguments, smooth brain projecting

    andrew_bidlaw,

    Hating an entire profession

    Well, yes, and it’s great you said it. This profession is fucked by design, and singling out individual cops, even those, is rather useless if you look at big picture. This whole institute of high power and no consequencies is a cancer. It doesn’t solve much problems and causes a lot of them itself because of this imbalance. As a subgroup of our international society, cops invented killology, KGB-style torture of suspects, that iranian madness with faith-policing. Because everywhere they’ve got a blank check for violence they ended up abusing it. In states where they don’t carry guns everywhere and are frequently held accountable, they don’t have such a morbid reputation, right? This position they have enables them to be corrupts, irresponsible and trigger-happy bastards. Not even starting on laws they are said to enforce because arguably they don’t usually write them, you can see the police as an exploding matter that can blow up in your face at any moment, and yet we put it everywhere like sugar, pepper it with powder and go on with our day ignoring the risks we let grow without any oversight. I’m not in the mood to get wrapped in explosives, so I’d say ACAB, and wish this ‘police’ thing would get as minor as other paid public servants, like firefighters. I haven’t heard firefighters bitching about having no ‘thin red line’ stickers, yet they are usually more endangered than cops. Guess, a collapsing building is less scary than one black guy. Maybe, they aren’t that helpful after all?

    doppelgangmember,

    Oh, the constitutionally defined “protectors of property, not people”? Those fascists, right?

    Talk to us when you’ve been arrested multiple times and had family killed while swimming away unarmed by being shot in the back by an officer who wasn’t doing his job properly. Or when the cop who illegally entraps you, cuffs you into the car, then hits on your fiance at the scene right after. Tell me more about not generalizing a group of murderous, glorified property protectors.

    ACAB all day mfer.

    Get fucked. Go touch grass.

    synceDD,
    @synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

    Go touch grass.

    ironic, keep on hating an entire profession online without having talked to any officer once

    doppelgangmember,

    I have and I’ve met some seemingly cool ones. But that doesn’t redefine the archetype of the role?

    Breezy,

    Dudes name is king when its apparent hes just a sheep.

    synceDD,
    @synceDD@lemmy.world avatar

    gottem 😎

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