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A man who escaped from the police died in a downpour. Martin Luther King’s daughter warns against watching the video.

Footage shows what happened when a black man was shot by police in Akron, Ohio. Once again, the debate flares up about racism, police violence and riots.

Here, Jayland Walker (25) escapes from the police as he is caught after a car chase in Akron in Ohio. Shortly afterwards, he lay dead on the ground. Further down in the article you can see excerpts from the incident.

July 4, 2022 23:47

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At half past one on Monday night, June 27, the police in Akron, Ohio, wanted to stop a car for violating traffic rules. It did not stop. Thus began a car chase that lasted six minutes.

When the incident was over, driver Jayland Walker (25) lay dead on the ground with 60 gunshot wounds. Activists for black rights refer to the case as cold-blooded murder. Others urge calm.

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