After executing days of a Democrat party sanctioned police rampage on peaceful protesters, mayor of Akron, Ohio, Horrigan Gives (Democrat) finally calls for “pause” throughout the city.
Almost immediately after the release of body camera footage showing police from Akron, Ohio shoot Jayland Walker, an African American male, more than 90 times at point blank range, successive waves of enraged members of the working class city have hit the streets in protest against the murder.
On June 27, 2022 police unleashed a fury of gunshots against Jayland Walker, as he exited his vehicle after failing to stop when officers alleged a “equipment violation,” entered into a pursuit. A beloved father, Walker, an African-American delivery driver, possessed no firearms at the time of his murder.
Subjected to intense police surveillance from the beginning of the protests, publicly outspoken dissidents of police state executions likely became the target of sophisticated software for tracking information from the Global Positioning Systems on telephone numbers into profiles.
Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation is capable of enumerating into a list the cell phone towers whose signals transmit those of protesters’ phones (while these numbers are mapped through timestamped data to the cell tower’s GPS location for real-time identification), there is no reason not to suspect that police exploited its surveillance to seek, identify, or arrest the family members of Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake, many of whom are still in holding tanks throughout the city’s vast network of prisons, waiting for arraignment. The Aunt of Breonna Taylor, who went to Akron, Ohio to fight and demand justice on behalf of Jayland Walker became the subject of a targeted arrest.
Alongside a campaign to leverage technology for the suppression of the peaceful protests, many witnesses have uploaded to social media channels such as YouTube or Twitter, videos detailing police engaged in blatantly anti-Constitutional activity such as assaulting or battering demonstrators for lack of good cause or firing tear gas at point blank range into their faces in a manner reminiscent of the way in which police murdered Jayland Walker.
On Twitter is footage, for instance, of the more than five Akron, Ohio officers punching Michael Harris, a peaceful protester, in face while attempting to place him into a Floyd-like hold on the ground before protesters intervene. Although the Akron, Ohio police announced an Internal Affairs Investigation, the victim may temper his expectations against the outcome the same for Jayland Walker.
The brutality of the crackdown on protests, however, pales in comparison to the treatment Jayland Walker’s dead body received. In the body camera footage the mayor sought to suppress, an unarmed Walker exits his vehicle before police unload round after round into his body.
According to a medical examiner’s report, Walker suffered no less than 60 wounds. In body camera footage reluctantly released by the Akron police this past Sunday, an unarmed Walker is shown being shot by police for roughly seven seconds. The gunfire from the cops caused over 60 wounds to Walker, according to a medical examiner’s report.
In the footage Walker’s figure rolls and twitches on the pavement with each bullet fired by the police. The report states that Walker “suffered dozens of gunshot wounds from his ankle to his cheek on both sides of his body.”
Despite lying lifeless, the officers who shot Jayland Walker, nonetheless, handcuffed his hands behind his bleeding body, while leaving him dead on the pavement. The report says that the coroner’s office received Walker’s dead body with his arms still handcuffed behind his back.
It is clear from the police’s response to the peaceful protests that the calls for “pause” by mayor Horrigan Gives (Democrat) of Akron, Ohio, are designed not to give pause to the death of Jayland Walker but to give pause to the police, officers, or cops whose brutal crackdown is costing the city hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding to suppress.
Although declaring in his last State of the Union address that “We should all agree the answer is not to defund the police, but is to fund the police. Fund them. Fund them.” President Biden’s response to fund mass protests is not unlimited. The impact of social unrest on the budgets of police departments like those in Akron, Ohio pay a heavy price for their reprisals.
During the George Floyd protests, for instance, police departments spent untold amounts of money on the suppression of mass unrest in response to his police state execution. In California, for instance, the State paid the California Highway Patrol no less than 38 million dollars during the days in which Californians joined in calls for justice against Derek Chain.
Recently, the Los Angeles Police Department realized exorbitant cost of suppression, reducing to a quarter (i.e., 18.5 million in its newly proposed plan) the amount of nearly $67 million the department previously sought to address a raft of reforms called for in various reports on its handling of demonstrations after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020. This is despite Biden’s assurances of funds for the police.
The new plan, which was outlined in a report released in September, 2021 by the Police Commission, calls for nearly $12.6 million to be spent on training thousands of officers on, among other tactics, the use of rifles that fire hard-foam projectiles to control large crowds, the use of zip ties over the expensive stainless stele handcuffs from Smith and Wesson, or maneuvers for successful kettles.
In addition, the LAPD’s new plan includes no less than $4.1 million to be earmarked for a new team of intelligence and protest surveillance analysts outfitted with updated technology for real-time monitoring and profiling. The equipment includes a computerized system to track the location of officers in chaotic situations with tools for tracking outrage on social media with artificial intelligence algorithms like GPT-3 or those designed to estimate sentiments.
It is clear from concerns about the allocation of budget among police departments like the LAPD for the suppression of mass protests that the management of limited funding is more of the issue for “pause” than calm, concern for an executed man handcuffed at gun point or the safety of peaceful protesters, that mayor of Akron, Ohio, Horrigan Gives (Democrat) seeks to advance. In that respect he promotes the interests of those he protects.
Consequently, the relationship is reciprocal, since none other than the Akron, Ohio police appear on his doorstep in more than three fully armored military vehicles full of officers ready to jump out in black jackboots for stomping on any protester who comes knocking on his door.