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Officer on leave; body camera footage not public yet The officer involved is currently on administrative leave while the investigation continues. He will not return to work until he has been cleared by an independent psychologist, the release states. Ginther said Tuesday afternoon he took the additional step of asking Quinlan to relieve the officer of duty — the equivalent of suspension — based on what he said he saw on the footage.  Quinlan has ordered the officer relieved of duty, requiring the officer to turn in his badge and gun, according to the city. This strips the officer in of...

Updated: 5:28 PM EST December 23, 2020 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Mayor Andrew Ginther said a Columbus police officer who fatally shot a Black man early Tuesday morning has been relieved from duty after it was discovered the officer did not turn on his body-worn camera before the incident. Officers responded to Oberlin Drive in northwest Columbus just after 1:30 a.m. after getting a non-emergency call about a man sitting in an SUV, turning it on and off. One of those officers was Adam Coy, a 19-year veteran with Columbus police. The department said the officers arrived at the scene to...

Mayor: Body cam not activated in police killing of Black man by Andrew Welsh-Huggins, The Associated Press Posted Dec 22, 2020 4:03 pm EDT Last Updated Dec 22, 2020 at 4:14 pm EDT FILE - In this Tuesday, July 28, 2020 file photo, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther makes remarks following the announcement by Columbus City Schools superintendent Talisa Dixon that all students would start the 2020-21 school year online during a news conference at Downtown High School in Columbus, Ohio. The mayor of Ohio's capital city says an officer who shot and killed a Black man holding a cell phone early Tuesday,...

On Dec. 22, Columbus police responded to a non-emergency disturbance call made by a neighbor on the 1000 block of Oberlin Drive on the city's Northwest Side about a man sitting for an extended period of time in an SUV that was running off and on.  A short time later, the man, identified Wednesday as 47-year-old Andre Maurice Hill, was dead after being shot by a responding officer.  The shooting comes at the end of a year that has seen protests across the nation against racial injustice by law enforcement in response to several high-profile shooting incidents, including the deaths of Ge...

Column: If BIden's smart, he'll keep DeVillers as U.S. attorney The Columbus Dispatch A presidential transition is inbound, like a new weather pattern. But the changing winds could blow away Ohio’s ability to hold corrupt politicos accountable. To forestall that, Joe Biden should keep United States Attorney David DeVillers as the top federal law enforcer in the Southern District of Ohio. There’s compelling precedent for such a decision. President George H.W. Bush maintained President Ronald Reagan’s U.S. Attorney in Ohio, Michael Crites. One reason was that Crites was in the middle of i...