Within one week, Columbus police shot two men in separate incidents, one of whom died, drawing condemnation among activists and faith leaders.
An epidemic of violence': Columbus faith leaders, activists lament two police shootingswere making their way through the streets of Columbus' South Side — as they do on the first Sunday of every month — when the gunshots rang out.
It was the first of two incidents in which Columbus police officers fired upon a suspect in the span of less than a week. Six days later, SWAT officers with the Columbus Division of Police fatally shot an Athens man in the parking lot of a Home Depot in Grove City while attempting to serve an arrest warrant.Following the back-to-back police shootings, some Columbus faith leaders and community activists are renewing their calls for police reform and accountability.
“We’re not going to lose our confidence in the police because of one officer,” LaMarr said. “But we’ve got to come together as a community because there’s a proliferation of guns in our community we don’t want, there’s a proliferation of violence in our community we don’t want, and there’s bad policing in our community we don’t want.”shot 66-year-old Michael L. Cleveland
In the wake of both shootings, Mayor Ginther touted in a statement to The Dispatch the recent steps the city has made in regards to police reform, while insisting that mechanisms are in place to hold officers accountable for shootings — from grand jury reviews for potential criminal charges, to independent investigations into misconduct by the Civilian Police Review Board.
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