Photos showing targets were taken during a Boy Scouts field trip to the Farmington Hills police department in April
in Akron, Ohio, after he fled the scene of a car chase. Walker was shot dozens of times by multiple police officers despite running away and being apparently unarmed at the time police opened fire.
“This community does not need an overly aggressive police officer who wants to flex his authority,” said Webster-Cox in a Facebook post. “No matter how many defenses the police offer to justify this incident, to have school children or adults exposed to this practice is ignorance.”in late June, the department’s police chief, Jeff King, issued an apology, and said the images were intended to represent a mix of both threat and non-threat targets.
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