Ann’s security officers, according to a joint statement from the two police departments and the hospital. That “resulted in the discharge of firearms” from the Columbus Division of Police and St. Westerville police then tried to transfer Jackson to the custody of Columbus police, but during that transfer, “an altercation ensued” at about 2:15 p.m. Columbus police were called because Jackson had outstanding domestic violence and weapons warrants in the city.

On Monday, Westerville police officers responded to a report of a man - later identified as Jackson - passed out in a car and then followed medics to the hospital. One person was taken into custody in connection with the breach of police headquarters. Let me be clear: Violence and destruction will not be tolerated.” “That does not include breaking into public buildings or violence against officers. “We share the frustrations over police killings of unarmed Black men, and we support nonviolent protests,” Ginther, a Democrat, said in a tweet. A white police officer who authorities believe mistakenly fired her gun instead of a stun gun has resigned in Wright’s shooting.Ĭolumbus Mayor Andrew Ginther backed the protesters’ cause but denounced the attempt by a few to later enter police headquarters. Protesters invoked that shooting as well as the killing of other Black men by police nationally, including the Sunday shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb. The clash followed a largely peaceful protest downtown earlier in the evening where dozens marched in anger over the fatal shooting of Miles Jackson, 27, at Mount Carmel St.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Police in Ohio’s capital city used pepper spray on a small group of people who briefly breached the outer doors of the agency’s downtown headquarters Tuesday night, following protests over the fatal police shooting of a Black man at an emergency room on Monday.

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