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By Maggie Trowe January 18, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio Working people have organized a series of protests here since the police killed two unarmed African American men in December.
Casey Goodson Jr., 23, a laid-off truck driver who was working at the Gap, was gunned down on his family’s steps Dec. 4 as he returned from a dentist appointment. He was holding sandwiches he bought for his grandmother and younger brother.
He was shot by Franklin County sheriff’s deputy Jason Meade, who claims he saw Goodson wave a gun while he was driving. There is no evidence that Meade, who is on paid leave, has yet to be interrogated by the authorities. Goodson was licensed to carry a firearm, but family members who were in the house say he had no weapon on him.
Andre Hill’s sisters Michelle Hairston, left, and Shawna Barnett, right, react while taking turns speaking about their brother during a news conference at the Beza Community Center on the east
Jan 2, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) In late May, Andre Hill and his roommate Donyell Bryant watched in shock, along with the nation, the video of a Minneapolis police officer pressing his knee on George Floyd’s neck for minutes, even as Floyd pleaded that he couldn’t breathe.
Nearly six months later, Bryant, 42, sat alone on the same couch in his home in Dublin in suburban Columbus watching body camera footage of a police officer shooting and killing his friend of 22 years.
“I mean, it just still doesn’t even feel real,” Bryant said. “It just seems kind of crazy.”
Columbus Officer Adam Coy, who is white, fatally shot Hill, who was Black, early Dec. 22 as Hill emerged from a garage holding a cellphone in his left hand and his right hand obscured. He was visiting a family friend at the time.
In the minutes that ticked by after an Ohio police officer shot Andre Hill inside his friend s garage, officers scoured the driveway for shell casings, strung crime scene tape around the house and blocked off the street all instead of providing medical support to Hill.