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Jayland Walker was handcuffed when his body arrived at the medical examiner’s office, according to the autopsy report
The preliminary report by the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office contains several pages of thumbnail photos showing Walker dead and handcuffed at the scene. The photos also contain evidence of lifesaving efforts, including what appear to be tourniquets and bandages attached to and lying around his body.
CNN was allowed to review the report but not make copies, per office policy.
A final autopsy report will be turned over to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations, which is investigating any criminal wrongdoing by the officers. The autopsy report will be part of what the state attorney general’s office considers for presenting a case to a grand jury.
Walker was killed in the early morning hours of June 27 after he fled what police said was an attempted traffic stop, leading officers on an 18-minute car chase and then a brief foot chase. It ended after he quickly stopped and officers believed he was reaching toward his waist, and “felt that Mr. Walker had turned and was motioning and moving into a firing position,” officials have said.
Eight officers fired dozens of bullets resulting in more than 60 gunshot wounds, officials have said.
CNN has reached out to the Akron Police Department for comment on its policy for handcuffing people who have died in officer custody.
Photos taken at the medical examiner’s office hours after the shooting show Walker in the body bag and subsequently on the examining table. The photos show dozens of gunshot wounds from his ankle to his cheek on both sides of his body.
Photographs in the report also show items such as Walker’s driver’s license and a bloodied set of handcuffs.
What police say happened
City and police officials spoke at a news conference Sunday and released 13 police body camera videos of events leading up to Walker’s shooting.
Walker was unarmed at the time he was killed, Akron Police Chief Stephen Mylett told reporters. A gun was found in Walker’s vehicle after the shooting, police said, and officers said Walker fired a gun from his vehicle during the car chase.
Narrated video released by police says that about 40 seconds after the start of the pursuit, “a sound consistent with a gunshot can be heard” in body camera footage, and the officers told dispatch that a gunshot had been fired from Walker’s vehicle. Police also showed still images taken from traffic cameras that showed “a flash of light” — perhaps a muzzle flash — along the driver’s side of the car.
“That changes the whole nature” of the incident, Mylett said, turning a “routine traffic stop” into a “public safety issue.”
After several minutes, body camera video shows that Walker’s vehicle slowed and he exited the vehicle and ran. Several police officers got out of their patrol cars and chased him, and officers deployed Tasers in an effort to stop him, police said, but were unsuccessful.
Moments later, when police said Walker stopped and turned toward the officers, they opened fire, killing him.
Eight officers were “directly involved” in the shooting, Mylett said Sunday, and all have been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
Protests follow the shooting
There were protests over Walker’s killing Sunday that started peacefully but turned violent after night fell, Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan said. He said there was “significant property damage done to downtown Akron” and police said they arrested around 50 people after protesters failed to disperse.
Walker’s family had asked that any protests remain peaceful to honor his memory.
Robert Dejournett, a relative of Walker’s and a local pastor, said the 25-year-old was a fun-loving young man full of jokes, who was adored by everyone.
“We’re God-fearing folk who believe in God and we want to exemplify that even in this process,” Dejournett told CNN, “we don’t want any rioting or anything like that.”
“Personally, I want to scream out and be mad,” the pastor said, “but what is that gonna do?”
Horrigan instituted a nighttime curfew Monday and Tuesday for downtown Akron to avoid further violence. He plans to lift the curfew Wednesday morning.
“Citizens have a right to make their voices heard, and I fully support that,” the mayor said in a statement on the city’s website. “In an effort to support all those who are peacefully protesting, I plan to lift the curfew in our downtown footprint starting tomorrow. As always, public safety remains our top priority and I urge our community to report any instances or threats of violence or destruction so that a small group of agitators does not cause further damage to our city and small businesses.”
‘Black Panther’ director mistaken for robber, handcuffed at Atlanta bank – WSB-TV Channel 2
ATLANTA — Black Panther director Ryan Coogler was mistaken for a bank robber at a metro Atlanta Bank of America and detained, police reports show.
The incident unfolded on Jan. 7, 2022 at the Bank of America at 1280 West Paces Ferry Road, when police responded to reports of a man trying to rob the bank.
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According to an Atlanta Police Department report, a Bank of America employee called police after Coogler passed him a filled-out withdrawal slip with a note written on the back asking tellers to be discreet with the transaction.
When officers arrived on scene, Coogler was still inside the bank. Officers brought him outside and handcuffed him as they investigated.
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Officers determined that Coogler was attempting to withdraw a cash amount valued over $10,000 dollars. The bank teller received a notification from Coogler’s account and told her manager that he was trying to rob the bank.
Officers determined that the incident was a mistake by Bank of America and Coogler was released. Two people who Coogler was with were also detained and released, but never handcuffed.
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Bank of America apologized to Coogler and he was allowed to go on his way.
Bank of America issued a statement confirming the incident, writing:
“We deeply regret that this incident occurred. It never should have happened and we have apologized to Mr. Coogler”
Channel 2 Action News received a statement from Coogler’s public relations team:
“This situation should never have happened. However, Bank of America worked with me and addressed it to my satisfaction and we have moved on,” said Coogler.
Coogler directed the original Black Panther, which was the highest-grossing film of all time by a Black director. He has been in Atlanta directing the Black Panther sequel, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
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Two Teenagers Were Fighting. Only the Black One Was Handcuffed.
It was a routine scuffle that normally would have gotten little attention: two teenagers taking swings at each other in a New Jersey mall.
But when the police arrived and pulled them apart, one teenager, who is Black, was placed in handcuffs. The other one, who is white, was allowed to sit unrestrained on a couch.
The fight, which took place at the Bridgewater Commons mall on Saturday, was captured in a video that has been viewed more than 1.8 million times on Twitter.
“The appearance of what is racially disparate treatment,” Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey said at a news conference on Wednesday, “is deeply, deeply disturbing.”
On Monday, the Bridgewater Police Department wrote on Facebook, “We recognize that this video has made members of our community upset and are calling for an internal affairs investigation.”
In a letter to residents on Tuesday, the mayor of Bridgewater said that the township’s police chief had asked the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office to look into the matter. The New Jersey State Conference of the NAACP is calling for the officers involved in the episode to be immediately removed from the force pending an investigation.
The family of the Black teenager, Z’Kye Husain, 14, is working with Benjamin Crump, the civil rights lawyer who represented the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other high-profile victims of police brutality against Black people.
In a brief telephone interview on Thursday, Z’Kye’s mother, who asked that she be identified only by her first name, Eboné, said her son remained in handcuffs for about 20 to 30 minutes. The white teenager, who Mr. Crump said was in the 11th grade, was not handcuffed, Eboné said. No charges were filed against either teenager, she said.
“The cops said it was just protocol for a situation like that for them to put the kids in handcuffs,” she said. “It just so happens my son was the only one with the handcuffs on.”
A spokesman for the Bridgewater Police Department referred questions to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office, which did not respond to requests for comment.
Z’Kye’s mother said her son was at the mall with friends around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday when the white teenager started harassing one of Z’Kye’s friend, who is in the seventh grade. Z’Kye defended his friend, she said, as other teenagers at the mall began recording the encounter with their phones.
In the video, the white teenager, who is wearing a dark sweatshirt, jabs a finger near Z’Kye’s face. Z’Kye pushes his hand away. Then the white teenager shoves Z’Kye in the chest with both hands. Z’Kye stumbles back. Then, both teens start throwing punches as the crowd around them backs away.
The older teenager tackles Z’Kye onto a couch. More punches are thrown. The white teenager tackles Z’Kye and is above him when two uniformed officers, who appear to be white, arrive.
The officers throw the white teenager toward the couch and one briefly stays with him as the other officer tackles Z’Kye to the floor and begins to handcuff him.
The officer who was with the white teenager on the couch leaves him there to help restrain Z’Kye, both officers placing their knees on his back.
The white teenager stands up and appears to take a few small steps toward the officers and Z’Kye.
The video ends as one officer picks Z’Kye off the ground and the other walks over to the white teenager and puts a hand on his chest as if to guide him back to the couch.
“Yo, it’s because he’s Black,” one bystander says before the video ends. “Racially motivated.”
A Bridgewater Commons spokeswoman said both teenagers had been banned from the mall for three years. She declined further comment, citing the developing investigation.
Mr. Crump said other videos of the fight could surface showing more of the encounter and the officers’ response to it. He also said the episode was important because “too many of us do get killed when we’re wrongfully accused and falsely accused.”
Mayor Matthew Moench of Bridgewater Township, which is about 30 miles north of Trenton, told residents in his letter that it was “not appropriate for me or any other Township official to comment any further” because an investigation was underway. Mr. Moench did not respond to telephone calls and email messages seeking comment.
Township officials also canceled a previously scheduled town hall meeting on Wednesday, citing “the volume and nature of communications that have been received by our Township staff and Police Department,” according to a letter posted on the township’s website.
Black Real Estate Agent and Clients Handcuffed at House Viewing
The house on Sharon Avenue in Wyoming, Mich., was supposed to be another option for Eric Brown, a real estate agent, to show to his client.
Instead, the visit to the property became one of the most traumatic experiences for Mr. Brown and his client, Roy Thorne, who are Black, after the police converged on the house during the showing on Aug. 1, they said in interviews on Sunday.
Mr. Brown and Mr. Thorne were looking around upstairs when Mr. Thorne’s 15-year-old son, Samuel Thorne, sprinted up to them from the first floor and said there were “a lot of police officers outside,” said Mr. Brown, 46.
That’s when Mr. Thorne, 45, looked out a window and saw a police officer with a gun drawn, hiding behind a tree, Mr. Brown said. Mr. Thorne called out to the officer, who pointed a gun at him, both men said.
The officer instructed the two men and the teenager to come downstairs and out the door with their hands raised, Mr. Brown said.
“I told myself, ‘If they shoot me first, they’ll stop there and won’t hit my son,’” said Mr. Thorne, an Army veteran. “In that moment, I wasn’t afraid of dying. I was just afraid it was going to hurt.”
Police officers handcuffed Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brown and his son, according to a statement from the Department of Public Safety in Wyoming, Mich. The city, which is near Grand Rapids, has a population of about 75,000 people, almost three-quarters of whom are white, according to 2019 census data. Less than 8 percent of the population is Black.
Mr. Brown said he told the officers that they could reach into his pocket and take out his real estate license. He explained that he had gotten into the house because real estate agents are given access to the keys.
The officers let the real estate agent and his clients go when they realized that no one had broken into the house, the statement said. About 20 minutes earlier, a neighbor had called the police to report that someone had entered the house, the police said.
Someone was arrested a week earlier after breaking into the house, the statement said. The neighbor thought Mr. Brown’s car, a black Hyundai Genesis, looked like a black Mercedes-Benz sedan that had been parked in the driveway at the time of the previous arrest, according to a recording of the call provided by the police.
The officers told Mr. Brown about the vehicles, and, according to body camera footage obtained by WOOD-TV, he replied, “Yeah, and my car definitely looks like a Mercedes.”
“I was both being true and being sarcastic,” Mr. Brown said on Sunday.
“You have a better day,” one of the officers at the scene told the real estate agent and his clients, according to the footage. “Sorry for the confusion.”
Kyle Gummere, the property’s listing agent working for the owners of the house, said he did not believe the neighbor called the police based on the race of those who were inside the house.
That assessment, he said, is based on a conversation he had with the owners of the house, who told Mr. Gummere that a neighbor had called the police only after seeing a black vehicle parked outside the house — not after seeing Mr. Brown, Mr. Thorne and his son.
“I don’t believe that this is racially motivated at all,” Mr. Gummere said, adding that he had shared this viewpoint with Mr. Brown, who disagreed.
“Understand the neighbors are elderly people,” he added. “They’re probably not going to know the difference between models.”
Mr. Gummere declined to share the name of the owners and said he did not know the name of the neighbor who called the police.
Mr. Brown said that what happened was a clear case of racial profiling.
“If we walked out of there, and I’d been a white lady and her white client and daughter, they would’ve dropped those guns in a heartbeat,” he said.
But the city’s Department of Public Safety, after a “thorough internal review,” disputed that idea.
“Race played no role in our officers’ treatment of the individuals,” the department’s statement said. “While it is unfortunate that innocent individuals were placed in handcuffs, our officers responded reasonably and according to department policy based on the information available to them at the time.”
Mr. Brown and Mr. Thorne have hired a lawyer to represent them and say they will consider legal action “if suing the city makes some changes.”
The house, which was listed for $239,900, had seemed an attractive option for his client, Mr. Brown said, because it was in a quiet neighborhood and was selling at a good price. Mr. Thorne said he was not considering the house anymore.
He grew up in Wyoming, Mich., but “it’s 100 percent guaranteed I’m not buying a house in that city,” he said. He said he and his son would keep looking elsewhere.
“I still have to find a house,” he said. “I just know where not to look.”
A Black realtor was showing a home to a Black father and son. They were handcuffed by Michigan police
“I knew once they surrounded the home they were preparing for a standoff,” the father, Roy Thorne, told CNN’s Don Lemon Friday. “And so my instincts told me we need to get out of here, we need to get to where they can see that we’re not a threat.”
A neighbor had called authorities, saying a suspect arrested at the property a week prior had returned to the scene, according to the Wyoming, Michigan, Department of Public Safety. But the caller was mistaken: The realtor, Eric Brown, was giving Thorne and his son Samuel a tour of the home in the community of Wyoming, just outside Grand Rapids, after scheduling the visit online the day before.
All three were eventually released without incident — but not before Wyoming police ordered them out of the home with their hands up and handcuffed each of them, briefly placing Thorne and his 15-year-old son in the back seats of separate patrol vehicles, according to footage released by Wyoming police.
“I was worried,” Thorne said, “but I was just more concerned about getting my son out of that situation and getting us all out of there.”
Asked if he felt they had been racially profiled, Brown said, “In that moment, it certainly felt that way.” He found it difficult to justify the level of force used, he said, describing it as a “tactical” response.
In a statement Friday, the Wyoming Department of Public Safety said it had conducted an internal review and concluded “race played no role in our officers’ treatment of the individuals, and our officers responded appropriately.”
“While it is unfortunate that innocent individuals were placed in handcuffs, our officers responded reasonably and according to department policy based on the information available to them at the time,” the statement said.
The incident scared 15-year-old Samuel Thorne, who told Lemon he felt “confusion and shock and fear … because I had no idea why they were all down there at that time.”
“It went from, ‘Dad, there’s cops outside,’ to ‘come outside with your hands up,'” Samuel said. “That was kind of like, just from zero to 100.”
Footage released by police shows how incident unfolded
A neighbor called the county dispatch on the afternoon of August 1, reporting that a person who was arrested at the home on July 24 had come back in the same car, according to a timeline released by the Wyoming Department of Public Safety.
In audio of the call released by Wyoming police, the caller is heard telling dispatch that a “young Black man” had been arrested the week prior for “squatting” in the house and that his car had been towed. (The police’s statement said the individual was arrested for unlawful entry.)
Police said it was a different caller from the initial incident, but “the caller was aware of the previous arrest and had seen the arrested individual and his vehicle.” The homeowner had asked the caller to watch the house, police said.
A few minutes later, a Wyoming officer contacted the caller to clarify that it was the same suspect and vehicle from the previous incident. The caller confirmed it was, police said, “adding that two other males showed up and all three individuals had now entered the house.”
Footage from the dashboard camera in one of the officers’ vehicles shows police arriving on the scene and ordering the people inside the home to come out with their hands in the air. At least two officers are seen approaching the home with their guns drawn.
The door opens and one of the men steps out with his hands raised, the footage shows. All three leave the home one-by-one, following the orders of officers, who are telling them to approach with their hands in the air. The police have each of them (Samuel Thorne’s face is blurred) turn around and interlace their fingers behind their backs before an officer handcuffs them.
Officers are heard in body cam footage explaining that the house had been broken into the week prior, acknowledging this appeared to be a “misunderstanding.”
Brown is heard explaining to an officer that he’s a realtor and he directs the officer to his license inside his wallet. The officer takes Brown to the door, where the officer removes the handcuffs as the realtor explains how he scheduled the visitation and entered the home.
Officers also remove the handcuffs from Thorne and his son after a couple minutes, and they’re heard apologizing to Brown, Thorne and Samuel.
‘Don’t report people doing normal things’
Two officers unholstered their firearms during the incident, per the statement from Wyoming police — one who was moving around the property’s perimeter of the house and one who was giving cover near the front.
“When responding to a reported home invasion in progress with multiple individuals inside a home, this is standard protocol,” Wyoming police said in their statement.
Police Chief Kimberly Koster has reached out to Brown and offered to meet with the three of them to talk about the incident, Wyoming police said.
Brown told CNN a time has not been decided, but they want to have that conversation with the chief with their own counsel present. He added he feels its “critical” that Samuel is there, too.
“Clearly,” Brown said, “we want some reform and some change here.”
Asked if he had a message for the neighbor who called police, Thorne told CNN, “We’re just like you. We occupy the same space. We do the same things. We go to the same places.”
“And if you see a crime, report a crime. But if you see people — Black people, any minority — don’t report people doing normal things,” Thorne said. “You do that, you don’t realize that you can change their life or have their life taken, just you making a phone call. In this instance, it could have been three.”
“You could’ve changed my life, changed my son’s life,” he said.
CNN’s Aya Elamroussi contributed to this report.
Officers handcuffed the husband of one of the spa shooting victims for hours after the attacks
Yaun had just gotten off from work, and the two were happy about getting to unwind with a massage. As they received treatments in separate rooms, González heard the gunfire ring out.
“About an hour in, almost at the end, I heard the shots,” he told the Spanish-language newspaper Mundo Hispánico.”I didn’t see anything. Only, I started to think it was in the room where my wife was.”
When law enforcement arrived at the scene, González told Mundo Hispánico, he was put in the back of a patrol vehicle and detained by authorities. He tried to get information about what had happened to his wife, but said his questions initially went unanswered.
Authorities later located the suspect, Robert Aaron Long, about 150 miles south of Atlanta in Crisp County and took him into custody.
González told Mundo Hispánico he was held for approximately four hours, until the investigation led authorities to Long as the suspect.
“When they found out I was the husband, they told me she was dead,” he said. “I wanted to know before.”
González said he was frustrated at how he was treated, suggesting it was “maybe because I am Mexican.”
In the video interview with Mundo Hispánico, he pointed to marks on his arm that appeared to be from the handcuffs he was in the day before.
CNN has attempted to reach González but has so far been unsuccessful.
The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office has not responded to a request for comment.
A family torn apart
The couple was recently married and had an 8-month-old daughter, according to Yaun’s sister, Dana Toole.
Toole said her sister always put her family first, and described Delaina as having a “wonderful, happy, upbeat personality.”
“Her family came first. Everything was her family,” Toole said.
Tool said the couple went to the spa to spend some time together.
“They just went to go have some time alone, husband and wife,” she said. “Unfortunately, it went bad. It went bad real fast.”
Yaun leaves behind a 13-year-old son, too.
“They took from me the most valuable thing in my life,” González told the publication, adding, “This murderer who killed my wife has left me only with pain.”
A department facing questions
González’s interview with Mundo Hispánico comes as a spokesperson for the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office faced criticism for his description of the suspect’s actions.
“He was pretty much fed up and had been kind of at the end of his rope,” Capt. Jay Baker said at a news conference last week. “Yesterday was a really bad day for him, and this is what he did.”
Later, a photo allegedly posted by Baker showed shirts with a racist and anti-Asian message about Covid-19. The sheriff’s office told CNN last week that Baker was no longer the spokesman on the spa shooting case.
CNN’s Catherine Shoichet contributed to this report.