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8 Ohio Officers Who Killed 25-Year-Old Black Man Jayland Walker Will Not Be Charged
 
An Ohio grand jury decided Monday not to charge the eight officers responsible for ending a 25-year-old Black man’s life after a traffic stop last year in Akron.

The officers — seven of whom are white — fired at Jayland Walker more than 90 times on June 27. The authorities claim that Walker shot at law enforcement officers from inside his vehicle first and then fled on foot. But Walker was unarmed when he was killed. He had been shocked by a Taser and shot or grazed by bullets 46 times.

The officers were put 
on paid leave after killing Walker.

“The grand jury just a little while ago issued what is called a no bill, meaning that there will be no state criminal action, no charges at the state level,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said in a news conference on Monday, according to ABC News.

The special grand jury in Summit County Common Pleas Court heard evidence for five days last week and announced its no-bill decision Monday.

“Multiple officers, each making an independent judgment about a threat and acting independently to neutralize that threat, creates a dynamic that amplifies the use of force exponentially,” Yost said, according to The New York Times. “That being said, it is critical to remember that Mr. Walker had fired on the police and that he fired first.”

Walker’s killing unleashed days of protests and calls for justice — leading to the arrests of advocates and a citywide curfew. His killing has sparked conversations about the unwarranted violence that ensues all too frequently during routine traffic stops.

 
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Republicans defended Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday after it was reported that he failed to disclose gifts and a real estate transaction from a billionaire GOP donor. “Justice Thomas has been attacked and excoriated since his confirmation hearing, and I suspect this is just a continuation of that,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told HuffPost on Monday. Thomas has come under fire for not reporting over two decades of luxury travel that he and his wife, Ginni Thomas, took with Texas real estate mogul Harlan Crow, including trips on the donor’s yacht and private jet. Thomas has said he and Crow are friends. Last week, ProPublica revealed that Thomas also failed to disclose a 2014 real estate deal to sell properties in Georgia to the billionaire. Thomas’ mother still lives on one of the properties and doesn’t pay rent. Federal law appears to require any real estate deal to be reported on financial disclosure forms.
 
 
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Ralph Yarl, the Black teen shot in the head by a white Kansas City man for going to the wrong home to pick up his younger siblings, has been crying “buckets of tears” since he was wounded last week, his mother said on Monday. In her first interview since the shooting, Cleo Nagbe told Gayle King on “CBS Mornings” that her 16-year-old son is “doing considerably well” physically, but he is still dealing with emotional trauma. “He’s able to communicate mostly when he feels like it,” Nagbe said. “But mostly he just sits there and stares, and the buckets of tears just roll down his eyes. You can see that he’s just replaying the situation over and over again, and that just doesn’t stop my tears either.” Yarl left his home on Thursday night to pick up his twin younger brothers from their friend’s house, as requested by his mother. While the teen had the correct house number, he turned onto the wrong street and pulled into the driveway of Andrew Lester, an 85-year-old white man.
 
 
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Dominion Voting Systems abruptly reached a $787.5 million settlement with Fox News on Tuesday in its massive defamation suit against the media giant, the same day the blockbuster trial was expected to begin. Other terms of the settlement were not immediately available, but the decision means the right-wing cable network will avoid a potentially embarrassing trial and protect top brass from publicly testifying. The deal also serves to inoculate the network from legal repercussions linked to the spread of misinformation during and after the 2020 presidential election — at least for now.
 
 
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