The teen can be seen with his hands up in the air amid the shooting, repeatedly screaming, 'it's fake, it's fake, it's fake,' regarding the gun, as the officer exits his vehicle.
ByBody camera footage released by the City of Akron on Monday shows the April 1 shooting of teenager Tavion Koonce-Williams, who was shot in the hand after a 911 caller reported him to police for holding what was later determined to be a toy gun.
Body camera footage released by the city of Akron shows the April 1, 2024 shooting of a teen determined to be holding a fake gun by an Akron police officer.Video shows the officer arriving on the scene and asking the teen to put his hands behind his back before firing a single shot that injured the teen's hand as he exited his vehicle.
The city also released Westlake's personnel file, showing that he was initially fired from APD in July 2021 due to various policy violations, but was then rehired following an agreement with the police union. Akron Mayor Shammas Malik said in a statement on Monday that the city released the body camera footage and the officer's personnel file in an "effort to be as transparent as possible."What the video shows
A responding officer approached "the subject matching the colors description" at approximately 7:11 p.m. local time while he was walking on Britton Road, near the corner of Ottawa Avenue, according to police.
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