'Columbus police think that they are the judge, jury, and executioner,' says bradybuzz's erickbellomy in response to the officer killing of unarmed 20-year-old Black man DonovanLewis. 'It's time that this police department is held accountable.'
"Columbus police think that they are the judge, jury, and executioner," said one activist in response to the 20-year-old's killing."It's time that this police department is held accountable."An unarmed 20-year-old Black man died Tuesday after being shot by a Columbus officer in the middle of the night while lying in bed—the third police shooting in Ohio's largest city in about a week.
showing officers going to an apartment building in the 3200 block of Sullivant Avenue to serve a felony warrant for Donovan Lewis. In the footage, the dog runs to a bedroom door barking before Officer Ricky Anderson, its handler, cracks open the door and almost immediately fires a single shot from his pistol as a startled Lewis sits up in bed.
"Columbus police shot Donovan Lewis within a second of opening the door to his room, and then, while he was dying, told him to 'stop resisting,'", explores topics including police brutality.
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