Feb 10, 2021
Former Columbus police officer Adam Coy is seen remotely on television during his initial appearance on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, at the Franklin County Common Pleas Courthouse in Columbus, Ohio. Coy was arraigned on four charges in the December 2020 police shooting death of Andre Hill, a Black man. Coy was charged with one count of murder, one count of felonious assault, and two counts of dereliction of duty, one of which was for failure to render aid to Hill after he was shot. His bond was set at $3.3 million. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The fired Ohio police officer charged with fatally shooting Andre Hill posted bail and was released from jail Tuesday hours to an audience of protesters after a judge reduced his bond from $3 million to a third of that.