Ohio officer who fatally shot unarmed Black man relieved of duty for not turning on body camera [View all]
A police officer in Columbus, Ohio, who fatally shot an unarmed Black man while responding to a noise complaint early Tuesday was relieved of his duties and is under investigation for not turning on his body camera in the city’s second deadly police shooting of a Black man this month.
Weeks after 23-year-old Casey C. Goodson Jr. was killed by police while entering his home, a 47-year-old man was holding a cellphone inside a friend’s garage when he was fatally shot in an incident that went unrecorded by the officer until after the shooting. The victim and officer have yet to be publicly identified.
Hours after ordering the city’s police chief to fire the officer on Tuesday, Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther (D) announced the officer had been suspended for the “unacceptable” action of not turning on the body camera before the fatal shooting, which is being investigated by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
“Our community is exhausted,” Ginther said in a news conference.
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