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In the minutes that ticked by after an Ohio police officer shot Andre Hill inside his friend's garage, officers scoured the driveway for shell casings, strung crime scene tape around the house and blocked off the street -- all instead of providing medical support to Hill.
More details have emerged about the police shooting of an unarmed black man who was left for several minutes with no first aid while dying. Andre Hill, who was carrying just his mobile phone when he was shot on 22 December while leaving the garage of a friend, was wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt when he was killed. Bodycam video from officers in Columbus, Ohio, appears to show the 47-year-old was still alive on the floor after he was shot as officers secure the area. As well as holding a mobile phone in one hand, his other hand had not been visible when he emerged from the garage.
WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS AND CONTENT Columbus, Ohio, police release bodycam footage showing aftermath of December 22 shooting of a 47-year-old unarmed black man, Andre Hill Hill was fatally shot by Officer Adam Coy, who is white, after Coy and another officer responded to a non-emergency call in the neighborhood Footage released on Thursday shows police fail to render medical aid to Hill, who lay wounded on his stomach on a garage floor, for more than 13 minutes Officers then do chest compressions on Hill in attempt to revive him as medics arrive in an ambulance just two minutes later - ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In the minutes that ticked by after a police officer shot Andre Hill inside his friend’s garage, officers scoured the driveway for shell casings, strung crime scene tape around the house and blocked off the street. At one point, two Columbus officers rolled Hill over and put handcuffs on him before leaving him alone again. None of them, according to body camera footage released Thursday, offered any first aid even though Hill, a 47-year-old Black man, was barely moving, groaning and bleeding while laying on the garage floor. Roughly 10 minutes passed before a police ...
Two officers then rolled Hill on to his stomach as they handcuffed him and then put him on his back while other officers waited for an ambulance to arrive. One officer stood over Hill, shining a flashlight on him. Minutes later, a supervisor showed up and asked, “Anybody doing anything for him?” The supervisor then ordered an officer to start pumping Hill’s chest. Thomas Quinlan, the police chief, said he was horrified by the lack of compassion shown in the body-cam videos. “As a police chief, and just as a human being, the events of the last week have left me shaken, and heartbroken ...