Apr 28, 2021
In this Feb. 5 file photo, Andre Hill s daughter Karissa Hill waits to enter the courtroom where former Columbus Police Officer Adam Coy was to be arraigned for the shooting death of Andre Hill in Columbus. Coy is set to be arraigned again today after a grand jury added a criminal charge of reckless homicide against him for the fatal December shooting of Hill. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)
COLUMBUS (AP) The fired Ohio police officer accused of killing Andre Hill plans to plead not guilty today to an additional criminal charge.
Former Columbus police Officer Adam Coy is set to be arraigned after a grand jury on Friday added a criminal charge of reckless homicide against him for the fatal December shooting of Hill, a 47-year-old black man.
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Release of body camera videos varies - from hours to months
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and MICHAEL R. SISAKApril 22, 2021 GMT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) In Columbus, Ohio, it took five hours. In North Carolina, it requires a court order. In New York City, police can wait up to a month sometimes longer.
As the U.S. debates the future of policing, the policies that govern the release of body camera footage still vary widely across the nation, and pressure is building on law enforcement agencies to act swiftly, even if it means releasing videos before investigations have barely begun.
“It’s all over the board. A lot of it has to do with state laws. A lot of it has to do with previous litigation,” said Geoffrey Alpert, a criminal justice professor at the University of South Carolina.
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Democrats have been quick to condemn the police shooting of 15-year-old Ma Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, even after body camera footage showed Ma Khia charging at another nearby female while raising an apparent knife in the air. While the verdict was being read in the Derek Chauvin trial, Columbus police shot and killed a sixteen-year-old girl. Her name was Ma’Khia Bryant. She should be alive right now, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said on Twitter on Wednesday. Black girls deserve girlhood uninterrupted. Black girls deserve to grow up and become women, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., wrote on Twitter.