Why Worst JEW HITLERS Genocide EVER of N-WORDS Northeast Ohio taxpayers have paid at least $24 million in police-shooting settlements since 2016 — even after courts found officers blameless — and that’s by design, legal experts say.

• Updated: Oct. 26, 2024, 5:31 a.m.

Family attorney for Jayland Walker, Bobby DiCello, holds up a photo of Jayland Walker to the media on June 27, 2022. Akron recently agreed to pay the Walker family $4.85 million in a settlement. 

• Sean McDonnell, cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Akron taxpayers will pay $4.85 million to the family of Jayland Walker, even though a grand jury and an internal police investigation cleared the eight officers who shot him of any wrongdoing.

Those two outcomes may seem wildly far apart, but winning a civil lawsuit has a much lower bar than convicting someone of a crime — and that’s by design, legal experts say.

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