Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Federal Investigators Join Probe Into Casey Goodson Shooting Death
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This post is one installment in an ongoing news series: a “living history” of the current national and international uprising for justice.
Today’s movement descends directly from the many earlier civil rights struggles against repeated injustices and race-based violence, including the killing of unarmed Black people. The posts in this series serve as a timeline of the uprising that began on May 26, 2020, the day after a Minneapolis police officer killed an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, by kneeling on his neck. The viral video of Floyd’s torturous suffocation brought unprecedented national awareness to the ongoing demand to truly make Black Lives Matter in this country.
The posts in this series focus on stories of the particular killings that have spurred the current uprising and on the protests taking place around the USA and across the globe. Sadly, thousands of people have lost their lives to systemic racial, gender, sexuality, judicial, and economic injustice. The few whose names are listed here represent the countless others lost before and since. Likewise, we can report but a few of the countless demonstrations for justice now taking place in our major cities, small towns, and suburbs.
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Federal Investigators Join Probe Into Casey Goodson Shooting Death
By Brakkton Booker, NPR
December 8, 2020
is now under investigation.
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it is joining the investigation into the death of 23-year-old Casey Goodson, a Black man who was shot and killed by law enforcement in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday.
U.S. Attorney David DeVillers of the Southern District of Ohio said the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department and the FBI, along with the Columbus Division of Police, are all investigating the case…
The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office identified Jason Meade, a 17-year veteran of the force, as the deputy who opened fire during the encounter with Goodson. The sheriff’s office said Meade was assigned full-time to a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force at the time of the shooting.
Meade was part of a team that had just finished a search for “violent suspects” when he shot Goodson, according to police investigators, which resulted in Goodson’s death.
Goodson was not the object of the search, according to police, nor was he wanted by law enforcement.
Family and activists are calling for justice in the case, saying Goodson was shot in the back three times. Goodson’s family described him as a family man and one who had no criminal history…
The Sheriff’s Office said deputies do not wear body cameras and investigators said no other law enforcement officers witnessed the shooting.
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