Africana Studies

A Guide to African, African American, and Africans in the Diaspora Resources

SAY THEIR NAMES -- COLUMBUS OHIO

SAY THEIR NAMES

SAY THEIR NAMES

SAY THEIR NAMES -- COLUMBUS, OHIO
African Americans Killed by Area Law Enforcement
2016--2022

Donovan Lewis

 

 

Ma'Khia Bryant

Miles Jackson

Andrew Teague

Andre Maurice Hill,

Andre Maurice Hill

Casey Goodson, Jr.

Casey Goodson, Jr.

Julius Tate

Julius Tate

Kareem Ali Nadir Jones

Kareem Ali Nadir Jones

Tyre King

Tyre King

Henry Green

Henry Green

"Online scorecard rates shooting history of Columbus Division of Police"

<<COLUMBUS, Ohio — According to policescorecard.org, the Columbus Police Department has more police shootings per arrest than 99% of U.S. police departments. 
The CPD has killed 48 people from 2013 to 2021, according to policescorecard.org

8% of those killed were unarmed

There have been more than 4,000 civilian complaints against CPD.>>

https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2022/09/01/columbus-police-violence 

SAY THEIR NAMES

"Feds to investigate after a sheriff's deputy killed a Black man entering his own home in Columbus, Ohio."

<<Among the Black men and teens killed by Columbus police in recent years were Julius Tate, a 16-year-old who was fatally shot by an officer in December 2018 during a sting operation; Kareem Ali Nadir Jones, a 30-year-old who was fatally shot by officers in July 2017; Tyre King, a 13-year-old killed by police in September 2016; and Henry Green, a 23-year-old shot dead by plainclothes officers in June 2016.>>

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/us/ohio-police-shooting-casey-goodson/index.html

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"Here are the names of people killed in police shootings in Columbus"

<<The deaths of Black people at the hands of law enforcement have sparked protests, legislation, cultural movements, criminal charges and more over the last year, since the death of George Floyd on Memorial Day 2020.

It has been felt keenly in Columbus, where there were not only weeks of protests demanding systemic changes for equity, but also five people killed locally by Columbus police officers and a Franklin County sheriff's deputy since last May.

In all, since January 2020, there have been eight people killed in shootings involving Columbus and Franklin County police officers. 

What the numbers say: Franklin County has one of highest rates of fatal police shootings in Ohio and the U.S.>>

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2021/04/21/makhia-bryant-andre-hill-casey-goodson-and-others-killed-columbus-police-say-their-names/7283680002/ 

 

"Killing of Donovan Lewis: We all pay when police snuff out unarmed people"

"Sadly, and tragically, young Donovan Lewis is the city’s latest unarmed victim of an avoidable and senseless police shooting, but likely won’t be the last.

Historically, Black, and brown peoples’ feelings about the police have, in the main, ranged from resentful to disdain. What is relatively new however, is the seemingly sizeable number of whites (that is, if the number of white protestors we see on the nightly news is any indication) that harbor an unprecedented level of dislike for the police."

https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2022/09/06/donovan-lewis-judson-l-jeffries-what-is-the-impact-of-police-shootings-columbus-ohio-unarmed/65473983007/ 

African American and African Studies Librarian and Comparative Studies Librarian

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