{"id":35293,"date":"2022-08-30T00:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T00:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=35293"},"modified":"2022-08-30T00:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T00:22:40","slug":"freedom-bloc-fights-on-for-justice-for-jayland-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/30\/freedom-bloc-fights-on-for-justice-for-jayland-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Bloc fights on for justice for Jayland Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>AKRON, Ohio \u2014 Two months after Jayland Walker&#8217;s death an Akron organization said they refuse to give up the fight for justice.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreedombloc.org\/home\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Freedom BLOC<\/b><\/a>\u00a0(Black Led Organizing Collaborative) marched through the city\u2019s streets Sunday, culminating the group\u2019s \u201cJustice for Jayland Week of Action.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedcode\">\n<hr style=\"height: 2px; border-width: 0; background-color: #042d4d;\"\/>\n<h4 style=\"text-indent: 10px;\"><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/h4>\n<h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Freedom BLOC (Black Led Organizing Collaborative) is an Akron-based organization<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The group held a march through Akron on Sunday for &#8220;Justice for Jayland Week of Action&#8221;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Jayland Walker was shot and killed by police in June earlier this year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h5>\n<hr style=\"height: 2px; border-width: 0; background-color: #042d4d;\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Walker was killed by Akron police on June 27 after the 25-year-old Black man led officers on a chase when police said they tried to pull Walker over for a traffic violation.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said Walker shot at police during the car chase. Shortly after, they said Walker pulled his vehicle over, hopped out and started running.<\/p>\n<p>During the foot chase police said they thought they saw Walker reaching for a gunshot that\u2019s when eight officers opened fire, shooting Walker over 40 times, according to the police department.<\/p>\n<p>Akron police later said Walker was unarmed when he was shot and killed, but that a gun was found in Walker\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a grave and bloody injustice committed right here,\u201d said Werner Lange, director of Ohio Peace Council, who attended Sunday\u2019s march.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom BLOC has hosted several rallies in Akron since Walker\u2019s death, issuing a list with demands.<\/p>\n<p>One demand is to create a civilian review board for Akron police.<\/p>\n<p><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b>\u201cWe need the police department to be accountable to the citizens that are served,\u201d<\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b>\u00a0said Ray Greene, executive director of Freedom BLOC.<\/p>\n<p>Another demand, one of the biggest, is to prosecute the officers involved in Walker\u2019s death. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is looking into this deadly shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to continue to march, continue to protest, continue to put the pressure on until we get justice,\u201d Greene said. \u201cWhat we do know is justice is slow. But we don\u2019t want to forget that we are fighting for justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/oh\/cleveland\/news\/2022\/08\/29\/-march-on-akron---group-fights-on-for-justice-for-jayland-walker\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] AKRON, Ohio \u2014 Two months after Jayland Walker&#8217;s death an Akron organization said they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cj-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35295,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35293\/revisions\/35295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}