Columbus clergy members want former police Chief Thomas Quinlan out of the department entirely, but Mayor Andrew Ginther isn t budging.
A small but outspoken group of faith leaders delivered a petition to Ginther s office at City Hall on Monday morning with more than 300 signatures on it.
The petition calls for Quinlan not just to be demoted from chief to deputy chief, as he was Thursday, but to be removed from the department as a whole. For him to step down to deputy chief is an egregious insult to our integrity, said the Bishop Donald Washington, senior pastor at Mount Hermon Missionary Baptist Church on the Northeast Side, during a press conference before faith leaders delivered the petition. He needs to go. He needs to go now because a leopard never changes its spots.