White Columbus Cop who Murdered Andre Hill Sentenced to 15 Yrs: Fatally Shot Black Man Holding a Cell Phone who Posed No Threat and Committed No Crime During Non-Emergency Event. Liar Cop Denied CPR
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From [HERE] and [HERE] A white Ohio police officer convicted of murder in the shooting of Andre Hill, a Black man who was holding a cellphone and keys when he was killed, was given a mandatory sentence on Monday of 15 years to life.
Columbus officer Adam Coy shot Hill four times in a garage in December 2020. He told jurors that he feared for his life because he thought Hill was holding a silver revolver.
The jury obviously did not find him to be credible and disregarded his testimony as false. The jury consisted of 13 white people and 3 Black people. [MORE]
The judge presiding over the case, Stephen McIntosh, ruled that Coy’s “prior use or non-use of force” could not be discussed during the trial. Judge McIntosh is a former prosecutor. The judge ruled that the jury could not hear about Coy’s history, including prior citizen complaints made about his use of force. Coy’s Columbus Division of Police personnel file showed he received 90 citizen complaints during his time with the department, including an incident where he pulled over a suspected drunk driver and slammed the person’s head on the hood of his police cruiser four times. [MORE]
A Franklin County jury also found the officer guilty of two other charges, felonious assault and reckless homicide. Mr. Coy was taken into custody after the verdict was read.
Coy, who is being treated for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, told the court on Monday he planned to appeal against the verdict.
“I feel my actions were justified,” Coy said. “I reacted the same way I had in hundreds of training scenarios. I drew and fired my weapon to stop a threat, protect myself and my partner.”
At trial however, prosecutors demonstrated that Hill followed police commands and was never a threat to Coy.
Coy fatally shot 47-year-old Andre Hill around 2 a.m. on Dec. 22, 2020, as Hill was leaving a leaving a friend's house on Oberlin Drive. Coy had been called to the neighborhood in response to a non-emergency call from a neighbor who reportedly witnessed someone sit in an SUV and turn the car on and off.
Hill was unarmed and was carrying just his mobile phone when he was shot. He was wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt when he was killed.
The body camera footage shows that around 1:30 a.m, Hill inside a garage, walking toward Coy with a cellphone in his hand, the screen lit up and visible. Within seconds, Coy fires his weapons and Hill falls as Coy continues to ask Hill to show his hands.
Coy points his flashlight into the dark garage with his gun drawn and suddenly shoots Hill several times. An autopsy found bullets struck Hill in the chest, twice in the right thigh and an additional time in the right leg.
Coy did not have his body camera on when he got out of his vehicle and approached Hill, a clear violation of police policy. After the shooting, he turned it on, which activated a 60-second "look back" feature and recorded the shooting without audio.
Five minutes after he was shot by Officer Adam Coy, who is white, another officer can be heard in the footage saying: "Let's cuff him up. He's still moving."Mr Hill is then rolled over on to his stomach before being handcuffed and put on his back as the officers wait for an ambulance.
After Hill was shot, several officers handcuffed him while he lay unresponsive on the ground.Video recordings from Coy and others show that none of the multiple officers on the scene made an attempt to render first aid to Hill until ten minutes after he was shot
Minutes later, a more senior officer arrives and asks "anybody doing anything for him?" He then orders an officer to start CPR. Mr Hill was later pronounced dead.
In victim impact statements on Monday, Hill’s sisters and ex-wife described the 47-year-old as a gentle man who had never met a stranger. His grandchildren called him “big daddy”.
COLUMBUS IS A CITY RUN AND CONTROLLED BY ELITE WHITE LIBERALS. EVERYWHERE ONE FINDS A LARGE POPULATION OF BLACK PEOPLE LIVING IN METRO AREAS CONTROLLED BY ELITE, WHITE LIBERALS, THE POLICE STOP, USE FORCE, DETAIN, PROSECUTE AND KILL BLACKS IN GROSSLY DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBERS. YET BLACKS RARELY QUESTION THIS EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON AND INEXPLICABLY AND STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT ELITE, WHITE LIBERALS ARE THEIR POLITICAL ALLIES WHO HELP TO ‘PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS.’
Coy, who had served 20 years on the Columbus, Ohio police force testified, “I thought I was going to die.” It was only after he rolled over Hill’s body and saw the keys that he realised there was no gun, Coy claimed during trial. “I knew at that point I made a mistake. I was horrified.”
Prosecutors questioned Coy on why he didn't ask Hill his name or call for backup if he was so concerned, CBS affiliate WBNS-TV reported. Coy said that Hill only partially obeyed his commands and was hiding his right hand.
"I thought he was going to draw. I drew my gun and fired four shots," Coy said.
Coy yelled, “Gun, gun, he has a gun!” before drawing his firearm and firing at Hill four times. Coy testified he saw silver metal in Hill’s right hand while Hill had his left hand up with a cellphone in it.
The metal was Hill’s key ring. He was unarmed.
Ben Crump, the Hill family's lawyer, said officers' actions were unforgivable."Where is the humanity for Andre Hill? Where is the humanity for this Columbus citizen who had committed no crime, had no weapon, was unarmed, only holding a cell phone? Where is the humanity for this citizen?
"He offered no verbal commands before he started shooting Andre Hill. He didn't say stop. He didn't say freeze. He didn't say, put your hands up. He didn't give Andre Hill a chance. He didn't give him a chance."
The footage also captures a woman inside the house where Mr Hill was shot telling officers that he had been bringing her Christmas money.
She shouted: "He was bringing me Christmas money. He didn't do anything."
Columbus later reached a $10m settlement with Hill’s family, and the city passed a law requiring police to give immediate medical attention to injured suspects.
