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‘City gonna burn’: Akron police fire tear gas to quell rioters after black man, 27, was shot 60 times and killed by cops … after shooting at police

Police in Akron, Ohio, unleashed a wave of tear gas on protesters who gathered outside of the city’s main courthouse on Sunday night.

Several hundred protesters marched in the city in the hours after the Akron Police Department released the bodycam footage showing the shooting death of 25-year-old Jayland Walker.

Walker was killed after being shot at least 60 times by Akron cops following a traffic stop on June 27.

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