China News Service, December 25. According to the American Chinese website, the second incident of police shooting and killing of African Americans occurred in Ohio, the United States within a month. According to the police body camera footage released on December 23, a policeman in Columbus The shot was fired less than 10 seconds after contact with an African man, resulting in the latter's injuries and death.
According to reports, the police stated that the deceased was 47's Hill (Andre Maurice Hill) and the police involved was Adam Coy (Adam Coy).
The video showed that Hill was walking in the direction of the police when Coy fired the gun, holding a mobile phone in his left hand.
After that, Coy stepped back and pulled the trigger.
The Public Safety Bureau of Columbus stated that the shooting was due to a noise complaint made by a neighbor on the 22nd, and the police went to a residential area on the northwest side of Columbus to investigate.
The agency said Koy and another policeman were equipped with body cameras, but they did not turn on until after the shooting.
However, this portable camera has a 60-second "playback" function, that is, before the camera is turned on, it can record a silent picture for 60 seconds, so the entire shooting process was still filmed.
According to the report, in the footage taken by the police after turning on the camera, he could be heard giving orders to Hill, who was lying on the ground and moaning in pain, asking him to put his hands on his side.
After that, Hill was taken to the hospital and died of his injuries.
No weapons were found at the scene.
Columbus Police Chief Thomas Quinlan said he was "uneasy about the preliminary facts."
The gun case has now been investigated by the Ohio Attorney General's Office and the State Criminal Investigation Bureau.
On December 23, the state’s attorney general, Dave Yost, said in a statement that investigators “will conduct a comprehensive, independent and professional investigation to find the truth.” Karen, the lawyer representing the Hill family Benjamin Crump emphasized in a statement that night that when Hill was shot, he had only a mobile phone in his hand.
The report pointed out that this shooting was the second police shooting of an African-American in Columbus within a month.
Less than three weeks ago, another African-American Jr. Goodson (Casey Goodson Jr.) was shot and killed by a deputy sheriff in Franklin County in the city, triggering public protests.