https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2021/04/12/police-shooting-reported-st-anns-hospital-circumstances-unclear/7193118002/

One bad guy dead.  He was found passed out in his vehicle and taken to the hospital to be medically checked out.  Police officers were with medics transporting him because he had an outstanding warrant.  Once in the hospital he got ahold of a handgun somehow and started shooting, police shot back and gave him a one way ticket to the morgue.

Man this town is going to the dogs, I liked Westerville a lot more 30 years ago than I do now.



You know what that means.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2021/04/13/miles-jackson-man-killed-st-anns-hospital-police-shooting-westerville-ohio/7200956002/

Not a lot of new information.  There is body cam footage but hasn't been released yet.  There is a cell-phone video / audio recording from a civilian witness, the audio sounds like an exchange of gun fire.  The handgun recovered did not belong to police or hospital security.  If that's true then he had it on him when he was taken to the hospital.

50 BLM protesters met last night at the intersection of Shrock Rd. and Cleveland Ave.

You know, I don’t even know the name of the guy or his race, but him and Daunte both had a choice, and they took the stupid one.

Even if I know the police are wrong, I can defend myself in court.

Even if I’m wheeled into a hospital unconscious and realize I have a gun on me, I can call a nurse and say I was never checked for a firearm before coming in, how can we have this removed off premise in higher safest way.

Instead he goes guns blazing and is dead. Stupid, I have no sympathy.

My wife has been trying to get me to agree to moving to Sunbury for 3 years now, and it’s getting harder and harder to defend this city. The fat redhead with her fake ass sad face standing next to McDonald’s or a Walgreens pretending she’s a homeless mom is constantly given money. The bus stop by IHOP always has vagrants, bums walking around Giant Eagle parking lot asking everyone for money.

And here we have Westerville creating a new Diversity Officer position for $125k a year.

If you walk into the Kroger or Walmart on Schrock vs Kroger on RT3 and Maxtown, you’d think you just left Whitehall.

Protests Monday and Tuesday night at CPD HQ. I don’t have time for a summary right now.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2021/04/13/protest-columbus-police-headquarters-leads-clash/7215643002/

C/P

The news article is behind a paywall for me. My understanding of the situation is that CPD brought a man in custody to the hospital, dude had a firearm that was not discovered at the time of arrest, he pulled the firearm out and discharged it, then got shot and killed by the police?

Seems an odd case to draw protests if my summary above is actually correct.

That's what it sounded like from what I read this morning.  Later today someone on nextdoor.com said he had grabbed a gun from a St. Ann's security officer and took hostages and barricaded himself with them.

They protesters jumped to conclusions, they hear a Black man died at the hands of police and immediately assume he was killed without justification.  It's happened before, but this was not one of those times.  Heck, they don't want the police, or anyone for that matter, to use lethal force at all, no matter what.

That is the first I've heard of what is in bold and it differs from what I've heard so far.  I'm sure the story will be out in full soon.

Thanks for the reply.  This is an odd one for sure, both the event and the reaction.  I know that in this age of "feels" it doesn't need to make sense but wow, it sure sounds like the police were acting reasonably when they shot him.

Here's an article with body cam footage, not behind a paywall.  The body cam is from the St. Ann's security officer, the guy is on the floor in the room behind the gurney.  You can see his hands move a couple times.  St. Ann's security officer had stoppage with his S&W M&P M2.0, I assume 9mm, and had some difficulty clearing.

https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/columbus-police-body-cam-video-of-deadly-shooting-inside-st-anns-hospital-emergency-room

I grew up there... Grad in 79 WNHS

It was once a great small community....  

That was a Columbus cop.

I agree and it was Columbus's largest suburb, I think Dublin is now.