Akron police handcuff Jayland Walker’s body after killing him

Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old black man shot dead by police in Akron, Ohio, was handcuffed when his body was delivered to the coroner’s office.

Eight officers fired dozens of rounds at Walker after he led cops in a car chase and then drove off on foot in the early morning of June 27 in northeast Ohio.

Walker was dead at the scene, but officers handcuffed him anyway before he was transferred to Summit County Medical Examiner, CNN reported on Tuesday.

The final autopsy report is still pending, according to CNN. Ohio State Police are investigating the shooting; the eight officers who killed Walker have been placed on paid leave.

Police attempted to arrest Walker for a traffic stop, but he fled and led them on an 18-minute chase it ended when he jumped out of the moving car and attempted to drive through a parking lot.

Cops said that during the car chase, Walker fired a single shot through the driver’s side window of his car.

When Walker stopped running and turned around in the parking lot, police opened fire en masse.

“We don’t treat animals that way,” Walker family attorney Paige White said last week. “Time and time again, what we see across this country is white people capable of committing crimes, slaughtering people, and living to tell the tale. Jayland Walker couldn’t do that.

There was a gun in Walker’s car, but he was not carrying it when he exited the vehicle on foot, police confirmed on Sunday.

The shooting led to protests throughout Akron, and the city canceled its July 4 festivities due to outrage over the shooting. Mayor Daniel Horrigan said now was “not the time for a city-led celebration.”