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

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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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Franklin County commissioners push for body cams, policy changes following shooting

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Franklin County Commissioners are showing a new urgency to get body cameras for county sheriff's deputies and make related policy changes in the wake of the fatal shooting of Casey Goodson Jr. by a SWAT deputy last Friday.

The commissioners also urged Tuesday that the public withhold judgment about the shooting until after an investigation by the Columbus police Critical Incident Response Team and the FBI and the review by new county Prosecutor Gary Tyack and the U.S. Department of Justice.

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