Karissa Hill, daughter of Andre Hill, raises hands with Benjamin Crump, the civil rights attorney representing Hill s family, at a news conference in February after former Columbus police officer Adam Coy was charged with murder in Hill s death.
The city of Columbus, Ohio, has agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Andre Hill, a 47-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by a Columbus police officer in December.
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Andre Hill, fatally shot by Columbus Police on Dec. 22, is memorialized on a shirt worn by his daughter, Karissa Hill, in Columbus, Ohio, on Dec. 31.
It is the largest such settlement in the city s history, and the largest pretrial settlement in a police use-of-force case in state history, lawyers said.
Columbus Division of Police Central Headquarters.
City officials will interview its first group of nine candidates who have applied to be the next Columbus Police Chief.
The candidates include law enforcement officials from Detroit, Fort Myers, Dallas, Seattle and Philadelphia among others. The group also includes Perry Tarrant, who was a finalist for the post in 2019. None of the candidates selected for an interview have served within Columbus police force.
During the last search, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther looked outside the division for the first time and this time around he s signaled he s committed to hiring from outside the department.
Ohio State University law student Candace Milner said there is no reason Columbus police should be on campus. We have a duty to stand up, speak out, Milner told other Ohio State law students during a sit-in Friday demanding that the university sever its ties with Columbus police over alleged police brutality against the Black community, and that it support a request for a federal investigation of the Columbus police.
About 40 law students and others had gathered by 1 p.m. for the sit-in on the second floor of Drinko Hall in front of the door to the office of the law school s dean.