“When I first heard, I was just shocked — just total shock,” said Robert Hubbard. “It made no sense to me knowing the gentleman I knew, the young wrestler I knew since he was about 8 or 9 years old. It just made no sense.”
Hubbard is a high school wrestling coach in Akron, Ohio and is still processing the death of 25-year-old Jayland Walker — shot by police dozens of times after a traffic stop on June 27.
Police video shows a stream of gunshots following a chase with eight officers, although Walker was unarmed at the time.
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