Former Ohio police officer found guilty of murder in Andre Hill shooting
A white former police officer who killed a Black man as he walked out of a garage four years ago in Columbus, Ohio, was found guilty of murder on Monday.
Adam Coy, 48, faces life in prison for fatally shooting Andre Hill, 47, on Dec. 22, 2020.
Coy was found guilty by a jury on all three counts: murder, reckless homicide and felonious assault....
Investigators later learned that Hill was a guest of the homeowner.
The Columbus Police Department fired Coy shortly after the shooting, and the city reached a $10 million settlement with Hill’s family in 2021....
It turned out that Hill was holding a set of keys....
The start of the trial faced several delays as Coy was treated for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to NBC affiliate WCMH of Columbus.
Karma.
There's been a change in America. Cops are SOMETIMES being convicted, lies are SOMETIMES exposed. Good. However, some bad cops skate with minimal consequences:
Ohio sheriff's lieutenant apologizes for 'won't help Democrats' post, blames sleep medication
An Ohio sheriff's patrol commander who declared on Facebook that he would not help Democrats and would require proof of who a person voted for before providing them aid has apologized, blaming prescribed sleep aids for causing his “out of character” actions.
Lt. John Rodgers, a 20-year veteran of the sheriff's office in Clark County, where Springfield is the county seat, made the statements in several posts on Facebook, WHIO-TV reported.
“I am sorry. If you support the Democrat Party I will not help you,” Rodgers reportedly wrote in one post. Another said: “The problem is that I know which of you supports the Democratic Party and I will not help you survive the end of days."
The sheriff’s office said Rodgers, who has commanded the department's road patrol, would remain on duty, with a written reprimand for violating the department’s social media policy.
Not even a suspension without pay?
“We’ve been in this battle over the last few months, with the attacks on the Haitian community and other immigrants, and we protect people’s rights and we don’t support the conduct to the contrary,” Mike Young, the county’s chief deputy, told the Springfield News-Sun. “I can’t go back in time and take that post away; the lieutenant made the post and he has received consequences for that.”
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, and his running mate JD Vance, drew Springfield into the national spotlight with false claims — some made during a nationally televised presidential debate — that the city's Haitian immigrants were eating people’s pet dogs and cats. Springfield is in southwestern Ohio between Columbus and Dayton....
“It is understood that while these comments are highly inappropriate, they in no means reflect the Clark County Sheriff’s Office delivery of service to ALL our community," the statement said. “The community has a right to be upset over the actions of Lt. Rodgers and he, as well as the Sheriff’s Office in general, will have to work even harder to replenish the trust of members of our community.”
The slap on the wrist for Rodgers does reflect poorly on the Clark County Sheriff’s Office and there's no reason for the community to trust it.
... Rodgers said he sometimes takes a prescribed sleep aid that can cause him to send “out of character” texts, phone calls or other forms of communication as a side effect. The lieutenant said that as soon as he learned of the messages on Tuesday, he deactivated his Facebook account and stopped taking the medication, the newspaper reported.
MAYBE the sleep aid removed his inhibition about posting, but it's unlikely to have created feelings he didn't already have. The Sheriff should mandate counseling and reeducation.
Clark is not the only Ohio county dealing with controversial statements made by law enforcement officials on social media.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s election monitoring operation is on site in Portage County, in the northeastern part of Ohio, to ensure the county complies with federal voting rights laws during early voting and on Election Day.
That’s after Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski, a Republican, was accused last month of intimidating voters. Zuchowski, who is running for reelection, posted on social media that people with Kamala Harris yard signs should have their addresses written down so that immigrants can be sent to live with them if the Democrat wins the presidency.
In the wake of the comments, the Portage County Board of Elections voted to forego using sheriff's deputies for election security this year.
It's always MAGAts
Asked at a news conference Monday about how the two cases might impact voters' feelings of safety, Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose said some law enforcement officials — particularly when they’re running for office — can sometimes make comments that are “ill-advised.”
“But that doesn’t, in any way, implicate the dedicated sworn deputies that work for them,” he said. ”Those are dedicated people that are first and foremost lawmen and women. They’ve sworn an oath to do this. They put their life on the line to do this, and I have every confidence that they take that duty very seriously.”
Yeah, right, the problem persists because Republicans like you won't lift a finger to get your house in order.
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