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‘This Is a Classic Defense’: Ohio Deputy Who Gunned Down Casey Goodson Has Yet to Submit to Questioning as He Claims Goodson Pointed Gun at Him
It has been two weeks since a Franklin County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed Casey Christopher Goodson Jr., a 23-year-old Black man, as he walked into his north Columbus, Ohio home.
In the days since, national fervor has grown over Goodson’s death, several conflicting accounts have emerged publicly, rallies and protests have stepped off, and at least one law enforcement official has walked back his initial comments about the Dec. 4 shooting.
One thing has not happened in that span. Jason Meade, the officer who squeezed the trigger to fire the shots that killed Goodson, has yet to be questioned by investigators.
Ohio man s fatal shooting reignites scrutiny of efforts to overhaul policing
Jasmine Hilton and Abigail Hauslohner, The Washington Post
Dec. 16, 2020
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Dozens of protesters raised Subway sandwiches overhead this weekend in front of the Ohio Statehouse steps, in a symbolic gesture to the memory of a man whose life relatives say ended with unjust violence.
Protests descended on this state capital s downtown following the fatal shooting of Casey Goodson Jr., a 23-year-old Black man whose relatives say he was entering his grandmother s home carrying Subway sandwiches when a sheriff s deputy shot him on Dec. 4. The deputy s lawyer said Goodson pointed a gun at the officer.
Dec 17, 2020
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Officials approved $2.5 million in funding Wednesday to allow the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office to purchase body cameras less than two weeks after a deputy fatally shot a Black man, resulting in an outcry by the public on the lack of footage of the encounter.
“Body cameras help provide transparency to the public and can also help vindicate deputies when complaints are made against them,” Sheriff Dallas Baldwin said in a statement.
The Franklin County Commissioners began discussions on funding for body cameras for the Sheriff’s Office following a wave of protests in Columbus over the summer in response to the killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Lousiville, Kentucky, at the hands of police.
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