Jayland Walker's family calls for DOJ investigation into his death, questions integrity of new information
CNN
The family of Jayland Walker, who was shot and killed by police in Akron, Ohio, last month, is calling for a federal investigation into Walker's death and questioning the integrity of the ongoing state investigation.
They held a news conference Wednesday, on what would have been Walker's 26th birthday, addressing the Akron police union president's interview with a local station in which the president said he provided the police chief with new information about why Walker was pursued by officers.
In what he called an effort to "correct any false narrative," union president Clay Cozart told CNN affiliate WEWS that officers told him they saw Walker's car in a high crime area before the chase, and after running the plates, discovered that the car was being pursued by a different police department a day earlier.