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the man shot and killed by police at Mount Carmel St. Ann's medical center in Westerville — but they also were about much more.  All of those Black men were killed by law-enforcement officers in central Ohio in recent months. Yet it takes just one look at the signs that many protesters carry — such as “Columbus is Not Safe for Black People” and  “The Whole Damn System is Guilty As Hell” — to see that the protests represent pain and anger that have grown over many decades. They are an expression, activists and experts say,  of the collective frustration that has built...

Protests marking killings of Black people also are about much bigger societal issues Ken Gordon, The Columbus Dispatch © Kyle Robertson/Columbus Dispatch A "Stop the Lies" protest heads down S High Street Wednesday evening in downtown Columbus, Ohio on April 14, 2021. Columbus police released additional information about some protesters who forced their way into police headquarters Downtown Tuesday evening. The protests in Columbus last week were about Miles Jackson — the man shot and killed by police at Mount Carmel St. Ann's medical center in Westerville — but th...

LaToya Renee Carpenter hadn't been gone from the apartment more than a few minutes when her fiance, Perez Williams, heard banging on their door. Roused from a nap, Williams answered it to find his niece and some other friends and family, frantic as they told him what had just happened. Carpenter had been shot, they said, and she had not survived. Williams was in disbelief. “I said, 'Ain't no way,' because she just walked out the door,'” Williams, 50, said.  Carpenter left her Truro Township apartment, just southeast of Columbus, just before 7:30 p.m. to pick up her 11-year-old daughter ...

Franklin County is again at the highest warning level in the state’s coronavirus advisory system. The Ohio Department of Health announced the rating of purple for Franklin County on Thursday afternoon, citing continued increases in new cases, hospital admissions and other coronavirus trends over the past two weeks in Ohio's capital county. "Franklin has gone to purple because its health care utilization has started to increase," Gov. Mike DeWine said during an afternoon news conference. "Emergency visits, they're up. Outpatient visits, hospital visits for COVID, those are all up." The c...

Flanked by a sign reading "Columbus is not safe for Black people," organizers who spoke before a crowd Wednesday night outside the Ohio Statehouse disputed the police narrative of a peaceful demonstration the previous night that took a violent turn. Columbus police and protesters agree on the basic details of what transpired after 9 p.m. Tuesday outside the division's headquarters that culminated with officers dispersing a crowd with mace. That is: that some protesters attempted to enter the building around 9:23, and police took measures to prevent that from happening. But that's about where...