A group of prominent Akron-area religious leaders are speaking out about what they said is inaction from authorities to stop killings by police officers.
Members of the Greater Akron Fellowship of Clergy gathered just days after a Summit County grand jury quickly declined to indict the Akron police officer who killed 54-year-old Michael Jones at a gas station last year.
“Our community is at a boiling point,” said Bishop Marc Neal, the senior pastor of Dominion Family Church, on Monday in the aftermath of the grand jury decision into the August 2024 killing of Jones, who was suspected of not returning a U-Haul truck on time…