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Columbus, One of the Fastest-Growing Big American Cities, Is Often Overlooked

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I was raised in Ohio, and then I left to earn some degrees and become a professor—a short-lived career that I decided wasn’t for me. But before I exited that exciting life of grading and faculty meetings, it brought me back to Ohio and, so far, I’ve stayed. Ohio is more than the controversial headlines it makes. It’s more than beautiful farmland. It is pinned on almost every corner by creative, vibrant cities, cool, small college towns and historic villages, with a flourishing outdoor world in-between. All of that magic…

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Donovan Lewis’ sister, Tatiana Crowder, drowns in Ricky Anderson, the Columbus cop who killed him

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The Columbus cop who shot Donovan Lewis while the unarmed 20-year-old was in bed last month was previously fired from the force after being criminally charged in connection with a bank side party. The shooting did not involve the use of force, and an arbitrator later reinstated Officer Ricky Anderson. She told the Daily Beast that learning about the history renewed the anger and hurt that Louis’s sister felt. “If we do these kinds of things in any normal job, you won’t get your job anymore,” Tatiana Crowder, 28, told…

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Donovan Lewis’ mother, Rebecca Doran, angry with Columbus police after shooting, video shows

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While a new video offers a fresh perspective on the murder of Donovan Lewis, a 20-year-old black man who was shot by a Columbus police officer in bed last month while likely clutching a vape pen, the murdered man’s family has issued a new call for justice. “I want to see real action,” Lewis’ mother, Rebecca Doran, said during a press conference Thursday outside Columbus City Hall, noting that she was “a little bit at a loss.” “There’s the slang saying, ‘Don’t talk about it, be about it.’ Let’s see…

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Donovan family’s lawyers Louis Columbus tear up the ‘barbaric murder’ of an unarmed black man

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The family of Donovan Lewis, the 20-year-old black man who was shot in bed Tuesday by a Columbus police officer while possibly holding an e-cigarette pen, are demanding answers and justice after the latest act of police brutality in a city with an ugly history. . “He was treated like an animal,” Rex Elliott, an attorney for Columbus, who represents the family, said after showing body camera footage at a Thursday news conference. “There was no excuse – let me be clear – there was no excuse for the officer…

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