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Akron Police Chief Steve Mylett has said that the officers who shot Jayland Walker dead have had bounties placed on their heads.

Walker was remembered by family and friends after he was shot and killed by police.

Hundreds of people filled a theater as family and friends shared their memories of Jayland Walker at his funeral

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press

He was remembered in a service attended by around a 1,000 people as a quiet, kind and humorous young man, the Akron Beacon Journal is reporting.

Mourners gather at a theatre in Akron, Ohio, to celebrate Jayland Walker, a Black man killed 27 June in a hail of police gunfire.

The funeral for a Black man Akron police fired at least 80 bullets at and who died after 60 of them riddled his body invoked a painful memory in America’s

Despite the overwhelmingly peaceful character of the protests, heavily armed SWAT police menaced the funeral.

Friends, family and community members remembered the life of Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old fatally shot by Akron police, at a funeral held Wednesday at the Akron Civic Theatre.

Family members and pastors share their memories of Jayland Walker at a funeral service attended by hundreds in downtown Akron.