The Citizens' Police Oversight Committee is a result of community-based police reform efforts in the name of Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old man shot and killed by police over 6 months ago.
AKRON, Ohio — The City of Akron has reopened its Police Oversight Committee applications. Voters passed Issue 10 with 62% of the vote back in November. Issue 10 was created after outrage over the deadly police shooting of Jayland Walker this summer.“It hit our city very hard because this is personal,” said Pastor Deante Lavender with The Remedy Church.“The citizen review board’s goal is to gain access,” Lavender said.
“I wish they wouldn't have opened the applications until we knew what happened, but they did,” said Malik. “Those applications will be considered just like any other one.”Click here to download and fill out a PDF of the application. Though Lavender is optimistic for change and improved police-community relations, he has some hesitations.He said he won’t be applying.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has not yet released its findings in the Walker case, but for now, reform in his name continues.
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