Justice For Jayland Walker

(CNN) Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man shot as he fled from police officers trying to stop him for an alleged traffic violation in Akron, Ohio, was remembered Wednesday as soft-spoken, loving and kind.

"We must not normalize this," Bishop Timothy Clarke, pastor of the First Church of God in Columbus, told mourners at Walker's funeral at the Akron Civic Theater.

"We cannot make the deaths of our sons and daughters at such an early age the normal thing ... We must not try to act as if this is all right. This is not all right. There's nothing right about this. We should not be here. And Jayland should not be in that box."

Walker was unarmed at the time he was killed, Akron Police Chief Stephen Mylett told reporters at a news conference earlier this month. A gun was found in Walker's vehicle after the shooting, police said, and officers said Walker fired a gun from his vehicle during the car chase. His deaths has led to days of protests in the city.

Police body camera footage released on July 3 showed multiple officers firing their weapons at Walker, with gunshots continuing even after he appeared to be on the ground.