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Akron is split on Issue 10, with both sides launching PACs to influence voters in final days of midterm election.

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Jayland was a sweet young man. He never caused any trouble,” said Lajuana Walker-Dawkins, Jayland’s aunt and the representative who spoke on behalf of the family Thursday. “We don’t know what happened. And we’d like to know for the mother, the sister, the whole family, and the community. The post Police Shooting Questioned appeared first on BlackPressUSA.

Angry but peaceful, marchers in Akron on Saturday called for justice for Jayland Walker after he was killed. Video of incident described as "brutal."

The Midwestern U.S. city of Akron, Ohio, is bracing Sunday for residents’ reaction to the release of police body camera footage of the shooting of a young Black man. Police attempted to stop 25-year-old Jayland Walker last week for a traffic and equipment violation. They chased him briefly in...

3News investigator Rachel Polansky presents part two of our series from Akron. Her energy jumped out with every move, with refreshing optimism in an often violent world coming from the smile of 8-year-old Mikayla Pickett. Today, that smile is only a memory. "We just miss her so much," her mother Shoskamika Risper told 3News. "Who wouldn’t? She had her whole life ahead of her." Credit: Shoskamika Risper Mikayla "Kay-Kay" Pickett Mikayla, or "Kay-Kay" as she was known, was with her older brother Joesiah at a neighbor’s birthday party last summer in Akron when gunmen emerged from a wooded ar...