{"id":1540928,"date":"2022-07-06T08:09:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540928"},"modified":"2022-07-06T08:09:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:09:22","slug":"jayland-walker-was-not-an-unarmed-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jayland-walker-was-not-an-unarmed-black-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayland Walker Was Not An \u2018Unarmed Black Man\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjayland-walker-was-not-an-unarmed-black-man%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540928&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Black_Lives_Matter_protest-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In this week\u2019s edition of \u201cGeorge Floyd is Jesus and All Cops Are Pigs\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Akron, Ohio, police department on Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zckut1RTtgg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released<\/a> camera footage showing the deadly pursuit and shooting of 25-year-old black man Jayland Walker. Naturally, more <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/08\/19\/death-toll-rises-to-an-estimated-30-victims-since-mostly-peaceful-protests-began\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cmostly peaceful\u201d<\/a> protests followed (that ridiculous phrase was used verbatim in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/07\/03\/akron-police-jayland-walker-video\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>) along with media coverage framing the incident as another <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/31\/what-did-black-lives-matter-really-accomplish-in-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unarmed-black-man-gunned-down-by-police<\/a> story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/ohio-police-officers-shot-fleeing-black-man-dozens-lawyer-says-rcna36468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC News<\/a>: \u201cOhio police officers shot fleeing Black man dozens of times, lawyer says.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/03\/us\/akron-police-shooting-jayland-walker-video.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a>: \u201cVideos of Jayland Walker Shooting by Police Raise More Questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/07\/03\/akron-police-jayland-walker-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cAkron police release video of officers shooting Black man dozens of times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/after-police-kill-unarmed-black-man-jayland-walker-akron-police-release-bodycam-footage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PBS<\/a>: \u201cAfter police kill unarmed Black man Jayland Walker, Akron police release bodycam footage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/politicsnation\/watch\/protesters-demand-justice-after-bodycam-video-released-shows-fatal-shooting-of-jayland-walker-143348805931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MSNBC<\/a>: \u201cProtesters demand justice after bodycam video released shows fatal shooting of Jayland Walker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To their credit, the media got at least <em>some<\/em> things right. Walker was \u201cfleeing\u201d when he was shot. He was hit apparently \u201cdozens\u201d of times. But Walker\u2019s story is less about racial injustice and more about: Attempting to evade police in a high-speed chase while firing a gun endangers the lives of countless innocent people, and getting shot for it is sometimes a thing that happens.<\/p>\n<p>In the early morning hours of June 27, law enforcement attempted to stop Walker for an unspecified traffic violation. He floored it, reaching up to 85 miles per hour in a 35-miles-per-hour zone, according to police body camera footage. Surveillance video and body camera audio show Walker firing a gun out the driver\u2019s window. After several minutes of the high-speed chase, which climaxed in a residential neighborhood, Walker exited the still-moving vehicle from the passenger door, his face covered in a black ski mask, and continued his attempt to escape by foot.<\/p>\n<p>Police first tried subduing Walker with tasers but were unsuccessful. After merely seconds into the chase, according to camera footage and police testimony, Walker turned toward the cops and that\u2019s when he was fired upon multiple times by eight officers.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said he sustained as many as 60 injuries, though it remains unclear how many were bullet wounds.<\/p>\n<p>An attorney for Walker\u2019s family told The Washington Post, \u201cI ask you, as he\u2019s running away, what is reasonable? To gun him down? No, that\u2019s not reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So here we go. Rioters took to the streets in Akron, shouting, knocking over police barriers, and lighting a dumpster on fire. All because Democrat mayors, governors, and attorneys general have insisted for two years now that crime be legalized.<\/p>\n<p>As was the case with Andrew Brown in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/the-liberal-solution-to-arrests-that-turn-deadly-just-let-criminals-escape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elizabeth City, North Carolina, last year,<\/a> Walker was not simply trying to escape an arrest. He was recklessly maneuvering a vehicle in ways that jeopardized his own life, the lives of the police, and the lives of any potential pedestrians, including children. Even worse than in the Brown case, Walker fired a gun in the chase. Police found the firearm and a loaded magazine in his car.<\/p>\n<p>True, Walker didn\u2019t have the gun when he began his foot race, but why should that make a difference? Describing him as \u201cunarmed\u201d because he, unknown to police, tossed his gun is like describing Joe Biden as a \u201cgenius\u201d because he trashed his press conference notecard instructions after having read them.<\/p>\n<p>Evading police in a high-speed chase is, in every way, a highly dangerous and potentially violent crime. A child walking home in her own neighborhood could have been killed, thanks to Walker\u2019s choice to speed off into the darkness. Again, he reached up to 85 miles per hour in a 35-mile-per-hour zone.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s long past time for the media and the Black Lives Matter crew to give up the knee-jerk reaction to defend every single black male who puts everyone in danger by fleeing the police \u2014 unarmed or, in this case, not.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s edition of \u201cGeorge Floyd is Jesus and All Cops Are Pigs\u2026\u201d The Akron, Ohio, police department on Sunday released camera footage showing the deadly pursuit and shooting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}