Obbie Shepard, 21, died on Aug. 26, 2011.
He died five years before Tyre King and Henry Green were killed by Columbus police, three years before the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and six months before the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida, a case that would go on to inspire the Black Lives Matter movement.
At the time Shepard died, Columbus police did not wear body cameras. No bystander video ever surfaced and went viral. There was a brief public outcry in the South Side neighborhood where he died, but nothing close to the sustained protests that flared in Ferguson in 2014 or rippled across the U.S. after Floyd s death last May.
Ohio scammed into paying out hundreds of millions in fraudulent pandemic unemployment: Capitol Letter
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
Posted Feb 04, 2021
The state estimates at least $330 million was paid out to fraudsters from April to December. (Ohio Department of Job and Family Services)
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Scam-a-lot: State officials have so far been able to confirm $330 million was paid out to 56,000 fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefits claims filed between April and December, Jeremy Pelzer reports. An additional 2,200 fraudulent overpayments for traditional jobless benefits, totaling $2.3 million, were made between October and December.
If at first you don’t succeed: Gov. Mike DeWine said Monday he plans to try to re-introduce his STRONG Ohio gun-reform package as part of the state budget bill, after his fellow Republicans in the state legislature refused to act on it last session. As Andrew Tobias reports, DeWine told reporters the specifics will appear in t
Columbus passes bodycam law in honor of Andre Hill
By Farnoush Amiri - Report for America/Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The city council in Ohio’s capital passed a law in honor of Andre Hill that would require police officers to turn on their body-worn cameras and render first aid after a use of force incident.
Columbus City Council unanimously approved the legislation late Monday, days after the city’s police chief was forced out of his role, as the latest repercussion stemming from the fatal December shooting of 47-year-old Hill by a white police officer.
“Unfortunately, it had to take my brother’s life before these laws, that should have been in effect, came to pass,” Alvon Williams, Hill’s brother, said during a press conference Monday.
Ohio capital passes bodycam law in honor of Andre Hill
By FARNOUSH AMIRIFebruary 2, 2021 GMT
Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther pays his respects at the casket of Andre Hill during funeral services on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021 at First Church of God in Columbus, Ohio. Hill, a 47-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by Columbus Division of Police Officer Adam Coy in the early morning of Dec. 22, 2020 after officers responded to a non-emergency call in the area. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther pays his respects at the casket of Andre Hill during funeral services on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021 at First Church of God in Columbus, Ohio. Hill, a 47-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by Columbus Division of Police Officer Adam Coy in the early morning of Dec. 22, 2020 after officers responded to a non-emergency call in the area. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
Feb 2, 2021
COLUMBUS (AP) The city council in Ohio’s capital passed a law in honor of Andre Hill that would require police officers to turn on their body-worn cameras and render first aid after a use of force incident.
Columbus City Council unanimously approved the legislation late Monday, days after the city’s police chief was forced out of his role, as the latest repercussion stemming from the fatal December shooting of 47-year-old Hill by a white police officer.
“Unfortunately, it had to take my brother’s life before these laws, that should have been in effect, came to pass,” Alvon Williams, Hill’s brother, said during a press conference Monday.