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routine traffic stop, which would probably result either in a warning or a citation being issued, turned into a pursuit. as mr. walker turned onto the entrance ramp to route 8 and the shot is fired, that changes the nature of the contact. 40 seconds after the initiation of the traffic stop, a half mile from the location of the traffic stop, you hear the gunshot and everything else i ve just discould have had and, again, that changes the whole nature of the traffic stop. it went from being a routine traffic stop to now a public safety issue. let s go now to cnn correspondent paolo sandoval. the attorney for the walker family says he never shot at officers. tell us more what we re seeing in the newly released body cam video. reporter: jessica, we have seen lately, at least in the last couple of hours, that call for justice and the call for answers is certainly amplified with the release of the video. people outside akron police headquarters here, many people have seen ....
Was unarmed at the moment that police officers, eight of them in all, opened fire shooting and killing walker. this is the video. 21 shots fired, a shot came out of its door. reporter: now it s very difficult to make out, but in that moment when you see walker basically jump out of that moving vehicle police saying he ....
Last couple of hours, that call for justice and the call for answers is certainly amplified with the release of the video. people outside akron police headquarters here, many people have seen this video like we have for the very first time with this release, and what is key is what we see in the moments leading up to and during the actual shooting. akron police maintain jayland basically opened fire, shooting at least one time while he was trying to get away from police behind the wheel of the vehicle, the vehicle pursuit turns into a foot pursuit. and that is where some of this very disturbing video we are going to show you in a few moments was released by authorities so people have a better idea, a better context of what happened, that s when officers say they perceived a threat being mainly walker reaching for his waistband and also appearing as if he was going to open fire, though, we should mention, both police and also the attorneys representing the walker family maintain he ....
But the other video that was more of a narrated video where they could stop and kind of show different things was actually much better to watch to try to determine whether or not there was a perceived threat that would lead to the officers even firing a firearm at this individual. so from what i could see that still remains to be seen whether or not the use of deadly force was justified. but he did fire what appeared to be a round out of the car. i mean, he got out of the car wearing a ski mask, which, it is july, takes off running and there is one photograph from the body camera showing him turning. so, again, the chief is right. every round has to be justified. every single officer, and there are like eight officers there, so you have to look at it from a variety of angles to find out what they saw, what did they perceive at the moment they fired the gun. right now it s very difficult to ....