More than five and a half years after two Akron police officers shot and killed Akron resident Mohammad Isaifan, a federal judge declared that the killing was reasonable and that the two officers did not violate the 40-year-old father’s constitutional rights.
Officers Jamie Rea and Matthew Akers shot Isaifan at least 14 times — including initially in his back — as Isaifan was walking toward his Brittain Road home after abandoning his car on the side of I-76.
In an opinion filed on Monday, U.S. District Court Judge David A Ruiz rejected key pieces of evidence offered in a federal lawsuit against the officers — an eyewitness who testified Isaifan wasn’t holding a gun when he was killed and footage from a nearby surveillance camera purportedly showing he was walking away — and sided with Rea and Akers…