(CNN)The family of a Black man killed by police while entering his own home in Columbus, Ohio, last week, is asking for answers after the state’s criminal investigations bureau declined to look into the case due to a three-day delay in police calling for assistance.

Casey Goodson, 23, was fatally shot by a 17-year veteran of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, identified as deputy Jason Meade, working for the US Marshal’s fugitive task force looking for violent offenders Friday. The victim was not the person being sought by the US Marshal’s Task Force, Columbus Police said.

CNN reached out to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office for comment but has not yet heard back.

“At this point, witness testimony and physical evidence raise serious concerns about why Casey was even confronted, let alone why he was shot dead while entering his own home,” the family’s attorney, Sean Walton, told CNN.

Goodson had put his keys into his door before he was shot and fell into the kitchen, where his 5-year-old brother and his 72-year-old grandmother saw him lying on the ground with a Subway sandwich, Walton told CNN.

“Our demand is that the authorities provide the family with answers for Casey’s death and that the officer involved be held accountable. The family and the community demand swift justice for Casey Goodson.”

State agency won’t investigate

The Columbus Division of Police, which was not involved in the shooting, is investigating the incident.

Columbus Police announced Monday afternoon that the investigation into the fatal shooting had been turned over to the Ohio BCI at the request of Columbus Police Chief Thomas Quinlan.
But only an hour later BCI, the state agency that investigates police involved shootings, announced that they would not be able to accept the case.

SOURCE: cnn.com/2020/12/08/us/ohio-police-shooting-casey-goodson/index.html

Feds to investigate after a sheriff’s deputy killed a Black man entering his own home in Columbus, Ohio | CNN

A sheriff’s deputy working for a fugitive task force shot and killed a Black man trying to enter his own home in Columbus, Ohio, last week in a case that is now being investigated by federal authorities. Casey Goodson, 23, was fatally shot on Friday by a 17-year veteran of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, identified as deputy Jason Meade.

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A man who recorded video of Jeffersontown officers conducting an investigation in a McDonald’s parking lot is now facing charges himself. Joseph Bennett says he was on his way home from work on Tuesday when he saw several police cruisers pulling over another car in a McDonald’s parking lot on Bluegrass Parkway.

Bennett said he decided to pull over, grab his phone and live stream the interaction. Shortly after, two of the officers approached him and asked him to put his phone away and then asked him for his identification. Bennett said he refused and that’s when one of the officers punched him and tried to grab his phone.

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Per the article below; “Former Officer Kenneth Betts and current Officer Brandon Wood are accused of sexually assaulting the teen over a two-year period in their homes and police cruisers and recording the contact to make pornography”

Louisville police sex abuse scandal: Here’s what we know

Mayor Greg Fischer has described the sex-abuse scandal engulfing the Louisville police department’s Youth Explorer program as “our worst nightmare.” In a lawsuit first reported by the Courier-Journal, a former Scout identified only as N.C. alleges that two officers raped him while he was a participant in the program for teens interested in law enforcement.

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A police officer in Salt Lake City shot a 13-year-old boy with an autism spectrum disorder on Friday after his mother called 911 seeking help for her son, who was experiencing a mental health crisis.

Family Speaks Out After Shooting Involving 13-Year-Old Boy With Autism

Per an article at npr.org/2020/09/09/910975499/autistic-13-year-old-boy-shot-by-salt-lake-city-police;

“Golda Barton told CBS affiliate KUTV that she called police to request that a crisis intervention team transport her son, Linden Cameron, to a hospital for treatment as he was having a “mental breakdown.”

Barton said Linden has Asperger syndrome. She had just returned to work for the first time in nearly a year and said that her son suffers from separation anxiety.

Barton reportedly told officers that her son was unarmed, describing him as “a kid … trying to get attention, he doesn’t know how to regulate.”

She said she was told to stay put when officers arrived at her house. Within minutes, Barton said, she heard voices yelling, “Get down on the ground,” followed by several gunshots.

In a press briefing, Salt Lake City Police Sgt. Keith Horrocks said officers were called to the scene shortly after 10 p.m. to respond to a “violent psych issue” involving a juvenile who “had made threats to some folks with a weapon.”

Horrocks said there was no indication that the subject had a weapon, but stressed that the investigation was in its early stages.

Without using his name, Horrocks said that Linden, who is white, fled from the address on foot, and that one police officer fired at him during a “short foot pursuit.” Officers provided medical aid until Cameron was transported to a hospital, He is reported to be in serious condition.

According to an online fundraising page created by a family friend, Linden has injuries to his shoulder, ankles, intestines and bladder”.

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A Georgia State Patrol trooper has been arrested and charged with felony murder after fatally shooting a Black man during an attempted traffic stop.

Jacob Gordon Thompson, 27, was arrested on Friday in connection with the fatal officer involved shooting in Screven County that occurred on August 7, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said in a news release.

Thompson attempted to stop Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis, 60, for a traffic-related offense. When he refused to stop, Thompson gave a brief chase before using a “precision Intervention technique,” sending the car to a stop in a ditch, according to the GBI.
Thompson then fired one shot, striking Lewis in the face. He was pronounced dead on the scene. An autopsy is being conducted at the GBI Crime Lab, according to the release.

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The mayor of Rochester, N.Y., has ordered the immediate suspension of seven police officers over the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after being restrained during his arrest in March.

Seven police officers in Rochester, N.Y., are suspended with pay today. Back in March, these officers arrested Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man with a history of mental illness. They put a hood over Prude’s head. He later died of suffocation. A medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. Protests in Rochester have now taken place for two nights after the family of Daniel Prude released a video of the incident, which they had obtained through a public records request.

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29-year-old Jacob Blake was shot in the back multiple times by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a bystander’s video showed, prompting protests and widespread outrage. Wisconsin’s Department of Justice is investigating, saying the officers are “fully cooperating” and now on administrative leave.

Authorities identified the officer who was seen in a video shooting Jacob Blake in the back as Rusten Sheskey, a 7-year veteran of the force.

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Cops Draw Guns On Teens Who Were VICTIMS of a Mugger

A homeless man attacked Black teens in Santa Clarita, CA, yet cops kept pointing guns at the teens while the homeless man got away

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Salt Lake City cop is suspended after setting his K-9 dog on train engineer in ‘racially-motivated’ attack that may cost the victim his leg

Salt Lake City Police officer Nickolas Pearce has been been suspended pending investigation following outrage over a video where he’s heard encouraging a K-9 to attack a black man who was on his knees with his hands in the air.

The use of K-9s has also been suspended by Salt Lake City Police due to the April 24 incident where cops scrambled to the home of Jeffery Ryans, 36, and set the dog on him resulting in injuries so severe that his leg may be amputated.

Ryans filed his intent to sue on July 20 but police only begin investigating the incident on Tuesday when an interview with Ryans detailed his inspiration to speak out following the recent wave of Black Lives Matter protests.

“I felt like a chew toy,’ Ryans told the Salt Lake Tribune. ‘I didn’t know why this was happening to me. That’s what was going through my mind. Why?’

‘People need to know Black lives matter. Everybody matters, but you can’t just treat people differently because of their religion or their skin color,’ Ryans said. ‘I developed myself to get to where I’m at right now. I should have the same respect as others. We don’t get it.’

It was only this week that cop has been suspended. Nickolas Pearce’s K-9 Unit won Unit of the Year in 2011 for its outstanding work. However just nine days earlier Pearce was involved in a use of deadly force incident where another officer shot a minor driving a stolen car several times.

The other officer who fired eight shots at the minor’s car was found to have used deadly force unnecessarily.

OPINION: This story is a prime example of why laws need to be changed so cops can be sued and held PERSONALLY liable.

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