‘Deeply Troubling’: Ohio Police Under Fire In Death of 15-Year-Old Black Boy Gunned Down by Officers Who Don’t Administer Aid for Minutes Instead Shout Demands As Teen Lay Dying

Questions are mounting among community members in one northeast Ohio city where a 15-year-old Black teenager was shot by police on Thanksgiving night. Police in Akron, Ohio, have released few details since 15-year-old Jazmir Tucker was gunned down by an officer armed with a rifle outside Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts. Jazmir Tucker shot and killed by police (Credit: Police Bodycam footage/Family Photo) Authorities say that just after 11 p.m. on Nov. 28, two officers parked in their patrol unit at East Avenue and Vernon Odom Boulevard heard the gunshots ring out. Those officers exited their squad car and started searching the area and encountered Tucker, who was “walking from the area where the shots were heard,” according to the Akron Fraternal Order of Police. The officers started running after him and one fired his long gun, striking Tucker. Police released bodycam footage of the shooting, but portions of the video are hard to make out since the camera is obstructed by a view of one officer’s rifle. Viewers are unable to see what Tucker was doing before he was shot. The first 30 seconds of the video, which show the moment the cop pulled the...