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Columbus Police Chief Tom Quinlan is officially recommending that officer Adam Coy be terminated for fatally shooting Andre Hill, failing to activate his

0:47 The footage, released by the department Wednesday, also reveals that five and a half minutes passed after Hill's shooting before an officer attempts to administer first aid. Police identified Adam Coy, a white man and 19-year veteran of the department, as the officer who shot Hill, who is Black. Coy was placed on paid administrative leave Tuesday. At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Andrew Ginther said he was "outraged" by the shooting and called for Coy's immediate termination. "I am also very disturbed about what I don't see next in the body-worn camera footage," Ginther s...

/ This image from a Columbus Police body camera shows the moments before Officer Adam Coy fatally shoots Andre Maurice Hill early Tuesday. Body camera footage shows a Columbus Police officer fatally shooting 47-year-old Andre Maurice Hill less than 10 seconds after finding him in a garage early Tuesday morning. The officer who shot him is Adam Coy, a 19-year veteran of the department who has since been placed on paid administrative leave. Columbus Police released records and video of the incident on Wednesday, along with Coy's personnel file and discipline records. Coy is white, Hill was Blac...

Ohio lawmakers do nothing on scandal-tainted House Bill 6 Caught between lawmakers who wanted to do more to curb the nuclear subsidies and those who wanted to bail out the plants, Ohio's GOP-controlled House couldn't cobble together the votes needed for a change.  “The substance of House Bill 6, not the criminal proceedings, are complex issues on which there’s a wide range of opinion in the legislature,” said House Speaker Bob Cupp, R-Lima. “The diversity of views on what is good and appropriate public policy I think has forestalled a consensus on what should be done.” On Monday, ...

Originally published on December 23, 2020 11:09 am A police officer in Columbus, Ohio, was temporarily removed from duty pending the outcome of criminal and internal investigations following the fatal shooting of an apparently unarmed Black man early Tuesday. Mayor Andrew Ginther demanded that the unidentified officer who fired the shot be removed following news that the officer's body camera was switched off in the moments leading up to the shooting. "While it is very early in the investigation, there is one fact that disturbs me greatly," Ginther said in a news conference Tuesday, accordin...