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now, however, why echo the walker is families request for patients. you keep going back to the walker family they're requesting patients piece in to allow the process to run his course. since monday morning, information about this shooting has been disseminated through various i would encourage people to wait or be i think they are about the geisha and submit their investigation to the attorney general's office. and then the grand jury. the damage is spreading. misinformation can cause irreparable harm. so before we see the final report, i would like to get some fact stated because i've seen a lot in from a lot of misinformation circulated. as you've already heard. there were a officers who were directly involved in the shooting. all officers had been placed on paid administrative leave as per department policy in which is routine. when
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officers involved in a deadly force situation that standard across the nation. we do not know the exact number of rounds that were fired. again, this is something that b, c i will discover in the examination of evidence. however, based on the video, i anticipate that number to be hired. a lot of rounds were fired and i will not be surprised if the number at the end of the investigation is consistent with the number that has been circulating in the media. for right now, we just don't know well, be ideal to confirm the never a number of times mister walker was shot. the report indicates over 60 to mr. walters body. however, they are still working to determine entrance and exit names. and this investigation on their end will time it will take time. so for them to determine how many times
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mister walker was actually shot in that work to make that determination is the responsibility of the medical examiner. as you could see in the video, there was a gun recovered from mister walker's vehicle at the time of the shooting. he was on leslie shooting back police officers went to mister walker and diligently provided 1st aid to save his life. one officer on the body camp footage can be heard saying he still has a pulse. as the officers were getting ready to put him into a police car to get him as quickly as possible to the hospital. back and fire medics arrived on scene. they took over aid, and unfortunately, mister walker tragically passed. okay,
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i'm going to turn it over to you and we'll start with we're going to start by allowing each media present to have at least one question we have to to speak loudly so that your voice and not only be heard in this room, but also as part of the live stream we're providing for the community understand again and it's already been stated by the teeth, that there are some questions that they cannot answer or may not answer because of the independent nature of the investigation. also to preserve that the integrity and investigation, some questions may not be ever for that reason. so at this time, i'll open up request for questions i am going to move intensely from my left to right. we're going to ask one question easy, and then we're going to move from left to right. okay. we'll open it up at this
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time and even certain things at this point in time for animals based on what you've seen and understanding the medication. or after seeing the service, what what is the most? this is the same thing as most concerning everybody else or just washer. i'm going to say this when an officer makes the most critical decision in his or her life, as a police officer doesn't matter where in the country this happens. when they make their most critical decision. when they firearm at another human being and pulled the trigger. they've got to be ready to explain why they did what they did. they need to be able to articulate what specific threats they were facing. and that goes
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for every round that goes down the barrel of their gun. and they need to be held to account. right now, as you point out, were in the early stages of the investigation, the officers have not been able to provide a statement yet. i am reserving any sort of judgment until we hear from them. just last night, i spoke with the union president and he told me that the officers are fully cooperating with investigation. thank you. go to the attorney to the family, bobby joe. it says that he spoke with you and you told him and told members of legal team members of the family that. ready based on your viewing of the video that you had not seen evidence that walker get anything threatening that precipitated the gunfire. your response to that. so when i, when i've watched this video more times than i cared to, but i've watched it at least 40 times when you see it in real time,
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it's very hard to distinguish what mr. walker is doing. in the still photos, there is a picture that appears to all of us that mr. walker is going down to waste area where there is a photograph that appears mr. walker was turning towards the officer and there was a picture that captures a forward motion of his arm at the crime scene. each, after the officers were involved in the shooting, they immediately get sequestered from one another. and they are monitor. when the investigative team arrives, they do an individual walk through of the crime scene. each officer, independent of each other related that they felt that mr. warmer had turned and was
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motioning and moving into a firing position. so again, the c i is going to do the investigation. i'm not pre judging it. and i'll leave it there. yes sir. i with their goal so. so go ahead, i'm sorry. with the way in which the picture depicted where the gun was located in the way in the manner in which it was placed, officers are approaching the car on their body. the camera and its capturing it in as they are approaching after the shot was fired. all the, i'm sorry, after the shooting occur are we went back to the scene where we believe the
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shot was fired, a casing was discovered at that location. consistent with the virus that mr. walker has in his vehicle. the c, i will determine whether or not that casing came from the gun or not. and again, independent of anything we did, the o dot camera captures what we believe the muzzle flash coming out of the car. again, the see i will be determining whether or not that in fact is the case where kate thank you for that questions. it's a great question. so the initial attempt to, ah, stop mr. walker and as you heard on the audio was for an equipment violation. and for a traffic violation,
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i'm not exactly sure what the equipment violation was or what the traffic violation was. we will find that out or b. c. i will discover that during the investigation what was going to be a routine traffic stop which would probably result either in a warning or a citation being issue turned into a pursuit. as mr. walker turned on to come the entrance ramp to route 8 and the shot is fired. that changes the nature of the contact. 40 seconds after the initiation of the traffic stop a half a mile from the location of the traffic stop. you hear the gunshot and everything else that i've just discovered, and again, that changes the whole nature of the traffic stop. it went from being a routine traffic. stop to now a public safety issue. and then the pursuit continued. if you had the
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officer involved view any of the video before they made their see, they have not given statements yet to my knowledge. and again that part of my answer is us walling ourselves off from the investigation and that will be determined by the bureau. criminal investigation cheap, the initial officers on that approach to the car deploy case. can we read into that? does that mean they didn't see it as a legal threat? what were they seeing that they chose to grab a taser versus their fire? i don't know. i'm not gonna respond to that because it would be speculation. the officers will be given an opportunity to explain their actions. so yes, there are 2012 clinical data. if it were 137 shots were fired into a car on our people after chase
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a lot of publicity. i'm curious if there is 137 shots on our people which kill them in that incident. that changed policies at all, either in equity part. so when that, when that shooting occurred, i wasn't here in akron. i just got here last august. and you know, i'm trying to go back in memory, but i can't recall exactly what we did as a profession following that. but i can tell you that we, we train in this police department, we go above and beyond in the police academy, the minimum required hours of training when it comes to firearms. additionally, we go above and beyond the minimum requirement by the state for annual qualifications. and so i really can't answer fully that question. just question about, is there any kind of like
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a protocol when multiple offers are hiring for how many rounds you fire? so officers are trained to when they, when they perceive a threat to themselves or to somebody else that they will, they are authorized to use their firearm to stop the threat. and they are authorized to use their firewall firearm until that threat no longer exists. sports stops, and that is, that is the standard as your main or the back a is there also a video cover of the movie? so we don't have dash cameras in our fleet? no, sir. and what was your, what was your 2nd question? i have been here before the app along with the last so again, everything that you saw right now is from body camera footage. we don't have dash
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cameras in it and i'm not going to step into that part of the investigation. i will look to pci to collect all that evidence for you said you had no hang on one second. ok, of course. are you in a have you ever had a warranty? so why you're dealing with this video with it? i will say this that it was difficult to watch and shocking, just like it is for everybody. i'm not passing judgment on the decisions my, in my officers may. they will be given the opportunity to explain why they did what they did as they should in terms of your 1st question. i'm not going to speculate.
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yes, i have seen that in my 33 years as a police officer. but i'm not going to go any further than that, because if you have questions yourself, what are, what are your questions? so i will reserve those for administrative investigation. mckenna reveal those right now when i, because it would be improper. there is a, there's 2 separate processes that need to be respected. one, it is the independent external criminal investigation. the other one is the internal investigation. i will be getting with our officer office, a professional standards and accountability, our internal affairs unit. and i will discuss those questions with them. they're like yeah, yeah. so number one, 1st and foremost again i, i,
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i praise and i thank the walk or family for calling for peace. and we obviously a fulcrum message here today is just that we have developed an operation plan to manage and to provide safe space in this city for people to peacefully protest and, and in case that it turns out to a situation where it's no longer peaceful. we have an operations plan in place for that as well, and i'm not going to discuss any of the details with anyone else on this side that i haven't already caught on. do you have a question before we ship the other direction to go with this plan? decision not to have to work. what is protocol? hearing somebody with you all want ye,
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how does era and the tail end of a quite remarkable press conference held by senior police chiefs and the mer and deputy mer of akron, ohio, which is the location of the killing of 25 year old jaylen walker on monday, a black man who was killed following a routine traffic stop. they have been several days of demonstrations in akron and the police have provided to the public there which 2 videos body cam footage showing. firstly, an apparent police chaser of mr. walker and secondly, body cam footage, showing the final moments of jaylin walker's life. the police say that this was to provide further context in order to hold police in akron to account for the incident. and of course, also to, to mitigate rumors and diffused tensions that i say there have been several days, a protest and concerns about the situation there. spiraling in a way that the authorities cannot control. well. john hendrick,
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all corresponded in akron, ohio, was that that's a remarkable press conference said john, what are we to make of what we have just witnessed? how unusual firstly, is it for the police to come out very quickly and present the public with their version of of ebs. very unusual. this is extraordinary. this is clearly a community whose leaders want to avoid that kind of trouble. we've seen in the streets across the country after the death of george floyd in minneapolis. and then of course, los angeles, chicago, new york, every major city in the united states that the family has urged common the streets . and so have the leaders of this city and day to come out with a video like this within a week is very unusual. there are times where, where police departments do release a video as quickly as one day. but in, for a case of this magnitude,
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it's extraordinary to give you another example. a gentleman named laquon mcdonald was shot 16 times by police in chicago with his back facing them. but while holding a knife, that video took over a year to come out. and this is clearly an effort to avoid that kind of thing. so if i could just summarize a little of what we heard there, and what we heard was that jalen walker was pulled over for a apparently a moving violation. we don't know what that is, but also an equipment violation, which was apparently a light out in the back of his car at possibly a light out over his license plate. he drove away from police. you. you heard that officer say in the pursuing car that he saw a bullet fired out of the side of that car and then you heard the police chief say that we saw a muzzle flash on the camera from the car. and then at the end of this whole incident, jalen walker is shown to be getting out of the passenger side of the car. interestingly,
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leaving behind the gun, the magazine. and if the police report is to be believed, are also a wedding ring. the significant is that we don't know, but i did ask the police chief about that and he said he wasn't going to speculate on it. but he said he had seen that before. i asked him if he thought the number of times that were a jalen walker was shot. the number of times police fired been reported up to 90, though he said he couldn't confirm that was excessive. he said he wasn't going to comment on that, but you've heard the shock in so many of those people up there when they talked about that. and you could hear yourself when the firing went off a minute. that was 8 police officers firing if it was 90 rounds. that's $12.00 to $13.00 rounds per officer on average. so quite heavy fire, but police chief said that they are trained to keep shooting until the suspect is down. but he said the investigation will tell whether that was excessive force. big
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point, we learned here that it was at jaylen. walker was unarmed, at the time of the shooting. he had left a weapon, apparently inside the vehicle. and that something is going to stir up a lot of anger and there are protesters prepared to come out even today. sure, sure, john, oh, of course we can be very careful with this because the investigations are pending both the external internal and no doubt. there will be a cool case pending as well. but we've heard of obviously from the place on that side of the story. but once the lawyer representing the family, saying if they contested the police version of events, yet the lawyer for the family who was about to speak here at this event behind me. and he said that there was no provocation, that when jalen walker made some slight turn, there was no reason to believe that he was threatening police officers. what we can gather from what we heard there is it, the police on the scene are likely to say that they felt threatened. they
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apparently have already said they felt threatened, but they might have felt that he had some kind of weapon on him. but the lawyer also drew an interesting distinction. he said jalen walker had been pulled over one day before, and in that case, the officer ended the pursuit and jaylen walker went home safe. and the lawyer says that which should have happened on this occasion, that what happened there was unnecessary and that it was excessive. 200 in akron, ohio. thank you. returning to developing story out of denmark where police of arrested one person in connection with a shooting and a capital copenhagen. they say several people were hit by gung fire at fields shopping center. hundreds of people escaped. the area lived nadeem baba now in our london broadcast santa nadeem. very few facts at the moment, but so what more can you tell us about the sensitive when e z, as you were saying this shopping mall is
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a suburban shopping more between the center of copenhagen and the cities airport is one of the biggest in the country and it's very popular with people going not just a shot, but to have dinner. it was crowded at the time. and i've seen a, a particularly worrying video on social media, which runs for about 15 seconds or so inside the mall apparently where there are many people running in panic, screaming and during that 15 2nd period, you can hear several shots. so eye witnesses have been quoted in the danish media as saying that between 10 and 15 shots were fired at that shopping mall just earlier on on sunday. and the police are still saying that as far as they know, a number of people, a several people were hit in the shooting and they have one person arrested in
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custody in connection with the shooting. but we don't know exactly the details and the police are saying that not in a position to give us any more detail or any more facts about that person's identity. this will be a huge shock for people in denmark. and this place was, it was a very peaceful sunday afternoon. it happened actually the shooting an hour and a half or so before the sing a harry styles was due to start her, a concert at the royal arena, which has a capacity of around $17000.00 people. and i understand it was a sell out. now the organizers vera saying that that event will go ahead after they consulted with the police, they're in touch with the police. and of course the police services as well as ambulances. and 1st responders arrived quickly on the scene at fields mall, vera phone to cross and videos of people, for example, being moved away from the area some on stretches. but mostly luckily people able to
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walk away or to be ushered away. there was one video posted by somebody who was staying in a hotel, just opposite the shopping mall, showing how security forces rushed people upstairs, adjusting case there was any threat to them just after the shooting. so from reports on the ground, it seems that the situation is contained, but what we don't know is the condition of the people who was shots and whether in fact the person who carried out the shooting has been court. and the dba very interesting will eat what you say, that bouts of the sea, the nature of a city like copenhagen. i don't think anyone would have expected an instant likeness to take place in a suppose what in european terms people would regard as a, as a sleepy european capital. nevertheless, what we're looking at on our screens here, or at least at the font past few seconds, our images of the danish police heavily on danish police arriving on the scene very quickly to deal with the situation. but we are, as you said, still
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a waiting for further information on this person that's been arrested. that's right . they say they'll keep us updated, but they're not in a position to give us any more information on the identity of the people that they've arrested. so far on sunday, the team baba in a london brook has sent a thank you to east and ukraine now where the ukrainian military says it has withdrawn its forces from the city of las a chance is ukraine's last major stronghold and look hands region. the announcement comes after moscow earlier said it had taken full control of the city. russia's defense minister report li, toll president vladimir putin. the province has been liberated. this unverified video was posted by chechen leader rams on cadet off. he says it shows must go back
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chechen soldiers in the city of lisa chance. michael clark is a visiting professor at the king's college london department of war studies. he says moscow will still face significant pushback from ukraine as it tries to gain control the entire dumbass region. i think the ukrainians are having to withdraw from it. they've got to the cranes got a strong position, alicia chance, but the russians have got ram behind them for the 1st time in this war, under the influence of their new general serv. again, who's only been in posts for about 2 weeks when the call was removed, they look as if they've done what they should have been doing from the beginning and they're behaving like a more modern army. and so this is a victory for the russians in taking the whole of new hands. but if you look at the, there are mission this we're, we're much greater than this. even in the dumbass went on the 25th march, said the constraint on the dumbass. the 1st idea was to push out from cock give, although it's mary paul, what they're doing is they're taking a very small bytes,
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which gives them new hands, but they haven't got on yet. which of the other bigger all blast in the dawn valley . they've got some of it, but not all of it. and so they'll have to take sloppy and to come from a toss, which are too much bigger places, further west before they can claim that they have and conquered the don bus. the you courteous got good defenses, which they've dug in some time ago, ran slightly against comatose because they always knew that they would be the essential prizes for this part of the struggle. and so i'm sure that they will actually make that battle quite tough for the russians, and the russians always need to take a pause after these, after these offences, they're not really able to, to, to build on their offensive. and meanwhile, their troops are very badly stretched across the areas that they occupy. so they are being pushed back in the north and cock give to be pushed back, possibly quite seriously in the south west, in cushion. because the russian to put so much into this smallish area, the dumbass that the living themselves expose further south and south west and
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