WASHINGTON: The fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American man by white police officers who did not serve under the mysterious state had triggered anger in the city of North Carolina, where the population and relatives of the victims protested Thursday night.
Jason Walker’s death threatened to throw racism back into the spotlight when American blacks demanded justice for some murders who have highlighted the United States’s struggle with the law of gun, racial impunity, and racial inequality.
Boxing, which was raised, the leading civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump leads “rally for justice” where the crowd shouted “Jason Walker is important,” the Direct Feed of the Wral TV from Fayetteville showed.
“Just as the truth was revealed” for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, “the truth will be disclosed to Jason Walker,” said Crump, referring to three high murders from American blacks with active officials or former police for the past two years.
Crump represents family in all three cases, which triggered national protests for police violence against a minority.
“My prayer will have peace,” said Walker’s mother in the rally.
Previously in a week, small groups of residents marched through the city, demanding the arrest of Jeffrey Hash, police officers who were not on duty who shot Walker on Saturday.
The officer, who has been employed by the city since 2005, drove his vehicle with his wife and daughter when they approached Walker, a 37-year-old black man who was unarmed crossing the road near his parents’ house.
Moments later, Hash opened fire, and immediately walkers were dead from gunshot wounds.
Exactly what happens in the dispute.
In amateur videos, filmed right after shooting and posted online, police officers explained to colleagues who were called to the place that was passed by Walker to the middle of the road and he had taken it to avoid it.
According to Hash, Walker then threw himself on the vehicle, tore the windshield wiper, and used it to hit the windshield, push the hash to pull the weapon to protect his family.
– Administrative leave – but an eyewitness said the hash hit the pedestrian before stopping.
“I saw the brake, really stopped, and then continued walking,” said Elizabeth Ricks to the ABC station.
“I saw him crashing into Jason …
then his body slammed into the windshield.” Ricks said he then heard a fired shot.
“I think he fired the first shot through the windshield and three times outside the vehicle,” he added.
According to the police, the Black Hash pickup truck did not have visible dents and the Walker’s body did not show signs of impact other than bullet wounds.
Officers were placed on administrative leave but had not been arrested or charged with a crime.
The state investigator has begun an investigation into murder.
Crump said the family and the wider Fayetteville community demanded why Walker was “shot without severe and killed” by an officer who was not on duty.
“We have a reason to believe that this is the case ‘shoot first, ask later,’ a philosophy looks too often in law enforcement,” Crump said in a statement at the beginning of the day.
US police officers kill an average of 1,000 people every year, with African-American representation among the victims.
The police are rarely sued, although the main anti-racism protests in 2020 encouraged several changes in court, with confidence in several police and other in the death of high profile shooting.
Protest in the US after a white holiday officer shot a black man dead
