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Comment by truth on March 28, 2017 at 8:29am

From Ferguson to Columbus: Police shootings second highest in the wild, wild midwest
by Bob Fitrakis
September 4, 2014
Boy holds sign that says Don't Shoot

Did you ever wonder where Columbus ranks in police shootings? We’re Number Two among the major cities in the United States. Only Las Vegas police officers kill more citizens per capita than Columbus.

With the explosion of demonstrations and activism in Ferguson, Missouri over the police shooting of an unarmed black man, Michael Brown, the Free Press investigated the likelihood of police killings in Columbus. Although it is often difficult to get precise statistics that depend on state and local police cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Free Press obtained FBI data for so-called “justifiable homicides” from 2012. The results may surprise many.

In the United States, 410 people died from police shootings. The 410 people were not in police custody at the time of the shooting, but were running away.

This is a different measure than what the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) calls “custody or arr

Comment by truth on March 28, 2017 at 8:23am

Deletion of videos was ‘mistake,’ we want to be transparent

Local community activist Ruben Herrera says he’s not convinced it was a mistake.

“My first reaction was – I feel it wasn’t accidental,” Herrera said. “And if I believe that, there’s lots of other people who believe that as well.”

Herrera says after a couple of recent high profile, officer-involved shootings, parts of the community have lost trust in the police department. He said this just compounds that.

“It’s much more complex than just the erase, the deletion, accidental or however it happened,” Herrera said. “But if you just look at that, to me it’s like – how does that happen?”