Short film featuring families of those killed in Columbus police shootings screened at OSU

The names of Tyre King, Julius Tate Jr., Henry Green and others resonate soundly across the Columbus area.

For many, their deaths speak to an issue that's grown more conspicuous in Ohio's capital city: people — most of them Black — who have been killed by local law enforcement officers.

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Why does this keep happening? Experts discuss why Columbus has so many police shootings

As the community reels from the death of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant – the latest in a series of high-profile fatal shootings by police – activist Kiara Yakita is not surprised that another Black person has been shot and killed by an officer.

"Columbus is a tale of two cities," she said.

In the wake of Bryant’s death – and the four other Black people who have been killed by law enforcement in Franklin County since Dec. 4 – Yakita, the founder of the Black Liberation Movement Central Ohio, has been calling for a reckoning between Columbus police and the Black community.

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Former Ohio State football player Bri'onte Dunn arrested after woman overdoses

Former Ohio State running back Bri'onte Dunn was arrested on a charge of felony drug possession Friday in Grandview Heights after a woman overdosed.

According to arrest reports, Grandview Heights police officers were dispatched around 8:43 a.m. Friday to the 800 block of Junction Way, where they discovered a woman who overdosed in the residence.

After police administered two doses of Narcan, the woman regained consciousness and was later transported to a local hospital.

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