Columbus officer who shot Andre Hill fired
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The Columbus, Ohio, Police Division fired officer Adam Coy after a hearing following Coy s shooting of Andre Hill on Tuesday. File Photo by Jemal Countess/UPI | License Photo
Dec. 28 (UPI) Columbus, Ohio, officer Adam Coy, who shot and killed 47-year-old Andre Hill, has been fired, the Columbus Police Division said Monday.
Columbus Public Safety Director Ned Pettus Jr. said Coy was fired after a disciplinary hearing Monday morning.
Advertisement The information, evidence and representations made by Chief [Thomas] Quinlan as the investigator are, in my opinion, indisputable. His disciplinary recommendation is well-supported and appropriate, Pettus said. The actions of Adam Coy do not live up to the oath of a Columbus police officer, or the standards we, and the community, demand of our officers.
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When the Vinton County Fair was canceled because of the pandemic, County Prosecutor Trecia Kimes-Brown wrote $100 checks to every child who completed a 4-H project this year. She did so in the name of anti-drug education through her Law Enforcement Trust Fund (LETF) account.
The move stoked the ire of Vinton County Auditor Cindy Waugh, who did not like the fact that Kimes-Brown gave cash directly to people right before her reelection campaign. (Though Kimes-Brown eventually lost anyway.)
The death of Breonna Taylor this year renewed interest in police forfeiture raids, and Eye on Ohio asked every prosecutor about their LETF accounts, the fund that benefits from seized cash.
Ohio prosecutors’ drug seizure bank accounts can dodge county oversight. Who should watch Law Enforcement Trust Funds?
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
Posted Dec 28, 2020
Former Vinton County Prosecutor Trecia Kimes-Brown awarded money from her Law Enforcement Trust Fund to 4H kids this year.
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When the Vinton County Fair was canceled because of the pandemic, outgoing County Prosecutor Trecia Kimes-Brown wrote $100 checks to every child who completed a 4-H project this year. She did so in the name of anti-drug education through her Law Enforcement Trust Fund account.
The move stoked the ire of Vinton County Auditor Cindy Waugh, who did not like the fact that Kimes-Brown gave cash directly to people right before her reelection campaign. (Though Kimes-Brown eventually lost anyway.)
Dec 21, 2020
I was disappointed to learn in Friday’s Marietta Times that the Washington County Commissioners resolved to request that Ohio Attorney General David Yost reverse his opposition to the Texas lawsuit. Texas Attorney General Paxton’s strategy was a coordinated attempt to use legal means to reject the will of the American people, a Biden-Harris victory which roughly half of the Republican members of Congress (including our Representative Johnson) and our own Commissioners apparently refuse to accept. 2020 has been a bizarre year, and so I suppose in some ways this is a fitting ending. I am gratified to see that Senator Mitt Romney at least recognizes this lawsuit for what it is: madness. While Romney acknowledges the President’s right to pursue legal recourse in the aftermath of his defeat, he maintains that “this effort to subvert the vote of the people is dangerous and destructive of the cause of democracy.” Paxton is under indictment for securities fraud, and t
Donald Trump and his supporters have filed over 50 lawsuits challenging various aspects of the 2020 presidential election. None of them have succeeded in establishing fraud or election impropriety. Most have been dismissed for lack of competent evidence by federal and state judges with backgrounds in both political parties, including recent Trump appointees to the federal bench.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had the bright idea of conglomerating many of the discredited claims and conspiracy theories from those suits into one package and pitching it to the U.S. Supreme Court. So, on December 7, commonly known as the day of infamy, he asked the Court to allow him to challenge the election results in 4 other states. It was not a military attack on the U.S., as occurred in 1941, but an attack on the very foundation of the federal system gifted to us by the Founding Fathers.