{"id":107405,"date":"2020-12-25T15:25:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T07:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=107405"},"modified":"2020-12-25T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T07:27:16","slug":"us-racism-police-killing-of-unarmed-black-man-ignites-fresh-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=107405","title":{"rendered":"US shooting: Police killing of 2nd unarmed Black man in a month ignites fresh outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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COLUMBUS, Dec 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man by police in Columbus, Ohio \u2014 the US city\u2019s second such killing this month \u2014 sparked a fresh wave of protests on Thursday against racial
injustice and police brutality in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andre Maurice Hill, 47, was in the garage of a house on Monday night when
he was shot several times by a police officer who had been called to the
scene for a minor incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seconds before the gunfire, bodycam footage shows Hill walking towards the policeman holding a cell phone in his left hand, while his other hand cannot be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Columbus police chief Thomas Quinlan announced Thursday that he was moving to fire the officer, Adam Coy, on allegations of \u201ccritical misconduct\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have an officer who violated his oath to comply with the rules and
policies of the Columbus Division of Police,\u201d Quinlan said in a statement.
\u201cThis violation cost an innocent man his life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to local media reports, Coy had previously received complaints of
excessive force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coy and his colleague waited several minutes before approaching Hill, who
was still alive, but died later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hill, the second African-American killed by police in Columbus in less than
three weeks, was not carrying a weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casey Goodson Jr, 23, was shot several times on December 4 while returning home. His family has said he was holding a sandwich which law enforcement mistook for a gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several dozen protestors gathered Thursday, waving Black Lives Matter signs and calling for justice for people killed in police shootings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The killings in Columbus come after a summer in which the US was rocked by historic protests against racial injustice and police brutality, sparked by
the May killing of African-American man George Floyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Floyd, also unarmed, suffocated beneath the knee of a white police officer
in Minneapolis. Horrified passers-by filmed his death, with the footage
swiftly going viral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnce again officers see a Black man and conclude that he\u2019s criminal and
dangerous,\u201d said lawyer Ben Crump, who defends several families of police
brutality victims including Floyd\u2019s, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He denounced a \u201ctragic succession of officer-involved shootings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther said he was \u201coutraged\u201d by Hill\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was \u201cknown to the residents of the home where his car was parked on the street,\u201d he said Wednesday at a press conference, describing him as a
\u201cguest\u2026 not an intruder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ginther said he was \u201cvery disturbed\u201d that the two police officers did not
give first aid to Hill and called for Coy\u2019s \u201cimmediate termination.\u201d — NNN-AGENCIES
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COLUMBUS, Dec 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man by police in Columbus, Ohio \u2014 the US city\u2019s second such killing this month \u2014 sparked a fresh wave of protests on Thursday against racialinjustice and police brutality in the country. Andre Maurice Hill, 47, was in the garage of a house […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":107406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}