'We've seen it too many times,' U.S. Representative Emilia Sykes said after an Ohio grand jury declined to prosecute the officers who fatally shot Walker.
to investigate the Akron Police Department after a grand jury declined to charge the eight officers who fatally shot Jayland Walker in Ohio last year.issued on Monday that she would be formally requesting the investigation just after Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced that the grand jury had decided the shooting was"justified." Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, was killed in June following a traffic stop.
Sykes added that the"trust between the community and the law enforcement officers who have taken an oath to protect and serve" had been violated and"must be rebuilt" in the wake of the shooting.
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