Citizens for a Safer Cleveland coalition aims to address police accountability
Updated Apr 20, 2021;
Posted Apr 20, 2021
Citizens for a Safer Cleveland announced its campaign Tuesday for a ballot initiative that strives to reform police accountability and oversight.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Social advocacy groups on Tuesday launched a campaign for a ballot initiative to ensure fair and independent investigations of police misconduct in Cleveland.
Black Lives Matter Cleveland, NAACP Cleveland, ACLU Ohio, Stand Up For Ohio and Showing Up For Racial Justice Northeast Ohio formed the Citizens for a Safer Cleveland coalition, which aims to reform accountability and police oversight, said Rachael Collyer, an organizer for Stand Up for Ohio.
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Peoples Conference, Dec. 23, Columbus.
Cleveland Three days before Christmas, Andre Hill visited the home of a family friend on Dec. 22 to drop off some holiday cash. Police, called to the neighborhood for an unrelated situation, shot and killed the 47-year-old Black father and grandfather. Hill, whose family and friends describe him as “passionate” about Black Lives Matter, was wearing a T-shirt demanding justice for George Floyd.
Officer Adam Coy, who is white, reportedly observed Hill raising his friend’s garage door. Hill, who was not ordered to raise his hands, complied with an order to come out of the garage with one hand lowered and the other holding a cell phone. Hollering that Hill was hiding a gun, Coy then fired multiple shots. Hill was unarmed.