In 2017, the board also cleared Thivener for his role in the shooting of convicted cop-killer Lincoln Rutledge. Also that year, the Columbus Police Firearms Review Board ruled Thievener and another cop acted within policy when they returned fire and killed 25-year-old Kaitlin Demeo while she was barricaded inside a Whims Road home. In 2019, Dale was cleared by a grand jury for his role in a fatal 2018 shooting during a standoff. Among other things, the suit alleges police violated Pettit's right to record the incident on his own property. Sergeants James Morrow and Joseph Podolski, and officers Kenneth Dale and Glenn Thivener are named as defendants.Ī Columbus police spokesperson says the division does not comment on pending litigation. The city attorney dropped the charge based on insufficient evidence. Pettit was jailed for five days and charged with "misconduct at an emergency." Two officers and a sergeant then slammed him to the ground, threatened him, took his phone, and arrested him. Pettit did not, and told officers he was on private property. The lawsuit says officers told Pettit to stop and go inside. Nick Pettit was arrested after recording officers hitting a compliant teenager without provocation. The officer who shot Bryant was cleared of criminal wrongdoing earlier this year by a grand jury.The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio has filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of a Columbus man who was arrested in 2019 for filming a Columbus police SWAT team serving a search warrant in his neighborhood.
Those incidents include the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant less than a week after Jackson's death as she swung a knife at a young woman. Protests followed the shooting, one of several in recent years in Columbus that led to a reckoning in the city over racial injustice and allegations of police brutality. No officers, hospital staff or physicians were injured. Ann’s officers fired their weapons.Įmergency room staff tried to revive Jackson but he was pronounced dead at the hospital, authorities said. That officer and the Columbus officers who shot Jackson were white.īoth Columbus and St. Westerville police were then called after he was found passed out in a nearby parking lot.Īfter a pat-down, where an officer previously cautioned for rushing his duties missed Jackson's gun, those officers followed medics back to the hospital, where Jackson was met by Columbus police because of city warrants for his arrest. Ann’s Hospital in Westerville, earlier the day he died, but had walked away. Jackson had been taken to the same hospital, Mount Carmel St. The Attorney General's Office concluded its investigation of the shooting in August 2021 and forwarded it to the Franklin County prosecutor. “Laboratory testing revealed that the gun Jackson possessed matched three of the spent casings found at the scene,” the release said. Tyack’s news release suggested Jackson fired three times. The grand jury’s decision not to indict Columbus officers or Mount Carmel security officers was announced without comment by Gary Tyack, the elected prosecutor for Franklin County in central Ohio, home to state capital Columbus. The teen was identified as Ma’Khia Bryant and the officer as Nicholas Reardon, who has been with Columbus Police since December 2019. Ann’s Hospital opened fire on Miles Jackson April 12, 2021, after a struggle that began when Columbus officers discovered Jackson had a gun concealed in his sweatpants.Ī standoff ensued after the gun went off, with police eventually opening fire as Jackson appeared to sit up and officers yelled, “He shot again!” and “He’s got a gun!”, according to bodycam footage.Ī coroner's report said Jackson was shot 20 times including wounds to his left ear, chin, chest, abdomen, buttocks and thighs. COLUMBUS, Ohio The Columbus Division of Police on Wednesday identified the 16-year-old girl killed by an officer Tuesday afternoon and the officer who fired the shots.
Tyack's news release stated that three spent shell casings from Jackson's gun were found at the sceneĬolumbus police officers and security officers with Mount Carmel St.On Friday, Gary Tyack, the elected prosecutor for Franklin County, announced officers would not be charged.An investigation by Ohio's Attorney General's office was submitted to Franklin Co.Columbus police officers and hospital security officers shot and killed Miles Jackson on April 12, 2021.COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Officers who fatally shot a Black man in an Ohio emergency room last year won’t face criminal charges, a county prosecutor announced Friday.
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