>>9835868"He was going through a very tough time and he was hurting. And that night that he encountered the police, he was not acting (like) himself. By all accounts, this was a good man, a good person with no prior criminal record so he was not acting (like) himself."
While Walker was fleeing police, he was clearly running with elbow flying high, before allegedly turning toward officers, Pierson said.
"As Mr. Walker turns at one particular point in time, he raises his arm out and at that point in time he is shot by responding officers," Pierson said, showing still images taken from body cameras.
"The officers believed that Mr. Walker was a threat to them, they believed he was a threat to themselves and other officers. As a result he was shot."
“We’ve all been shaken by this decision of the grand jury,” Walker family attorney Bobby DiCello said Monday after the decision was announced.
He objected to boards over windows and other preparations as “casting all of us who believe in justice as people who would rather destroy things than have fairness.”
HOW DARE YALL BOARD UP YO BIDNESS!
