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.
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Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther will have a pool of 205 people to choose from in deciding who to recommend for seats on the first city civilian review board to provide oversight to the Division of Police.
The board, approved as a charter amendment by voters in November, will be able to investigate allegations of misconduct and use-of-force incidents involving Columbus police officers. A panel of nine people, who will be selected by Ginther but must be approved by the city council, is expected to be seated by spring.
Board members will serve staggered terms of at least three years. A majority of the board must be Columbus residents, but residency alone was not a requirement and some applicants are from surrounding suburbs.
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The Columbus Mayor s Office has received over 200 applications for seats on the new Columbus Civilian Review Board.
The deadline to apply was last Friday, and city officials say they want the board to be seated before the end of March.
Some of the applicants include retired Columbus Police Chief Walter Distelzweig, attorney Byron Potts, Civilian Review Board Work Group member Kyle Strickland and Adrienne Hood, the mother of Henry Green, a black man killed by undercover white police officers in 2016.
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