Police shot and killed a somali man in Columbus

[Allamagan]

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A Franklin County sheriff's

deputy shot and killed a man on Wednesday

afternoon, NBC 4's Mike Bowersock reported.

 

Deputies said they went to Cassady Village to

serve papers to 23-year-old Nasir Abdi, when he

pulled a knife.

 

The shooting occurred at about 1:15 p.m. in the

3700 block of Cassady Village Trail in the

northeast part of the county.

 

"He was maced," said Lt. Brent Mull, of Columbus

police. "The mace did not work. The deputies, at

that point, with revolvers drawn, still were

trying to order him down."

 

 

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[Allamagan]

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[Modesty]

Allah ha uu naxariisto!

[Tahliil]

Every death caused by the police, every brutility i have watched lately on TV was against a minority? is it just a coincedence or plain, deleberate act...screw you I can do this to you and get away with it kinda of act? I think the poor black folks in the States are payin the price of being both poor and black...

[Allamagan]

^agree with ya.

Same happened in Australia some years ago.

I read that on the internet. 5 bullets were

shot against an innocent somali victim.

 

Some cops are eager to kill, and these kind of

shooting-hungary cops love to operate in the

minority areas.

 

So watch out buddy an officer near you dreams

to kill ya for no reason just to see his name

on the headlines as brave cop

 

 

am

[Tuujiye]

Ilahey Ha u naxariisto...

Ilaahey dhulkeyna nabad hanooga dhigo iinsha allah.

 

Wareer Badanaa!!!

[Dhubad.]

Maskiin, I laahay ha unaxariisto.

 

This is why we need to have any kind of government just to represent us but then that might not happen. For instance, When Col Yay visited Yemen this week, I was hopping he was gonna talk about the poor refugee people who were killed and prisonned by the Yemen government but then as usual dheg jalaq muusan u siin

 

So that leaves me just pray, pray and pray that Allah will bestow us a good government which is lenient to the poor people and will represent us.

[Gabbal]

Hundreds in Ohio Protest Somali's Shooting

 

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press Writer Fri Dec 30, 8:44 PM ET

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Somali immigrants upset over the fatal police shooting of a man they say had mental health problems rallied Friday in protest, questioning the decision to use deadly force.

 

A crowd that Columbus police estimated in the hundreds alternated between standing in front of City Hall and marching around two city blocks chanting and yelling, "We want justice!"

 

Protesters held signs with statements such as, "Nasir Abdi needed medication, not a bullet."

 

Nasir Abdi, 23, was shot Wednesday as four Franklin County deputies tried to take him back to a mental hospital where he had been force-fed medications. Columbus police detectives said Abdi had threatened them with a kitchen knife with a 6-inch blade.

 

But Somali leaders said witnesses to the shooting never saw a knife in Abdi's hands.

 

"What we need is the facts to come out, and we want justice to be served," said Liibaan Ismail of Columbus, a spokesman for the protesters gathered outside City Hall.

 

Bashir Mohamud, a 23-year-old Ohio State University student, said he came to the protest because he didn't think Abdi had to die.

 

"The police just shot him without reason. I believe they could have saved him instead of killing him," said Mohamud, who came to Columbus from Somalia about three years ago.

 

Sheriff Jim Karnes said Friday that his office was familiar with Abdi and his mental health problems, though the deputy who shot him was probably not. Nevertheless, he said, his officers know their responsibilities.

 

"They know what they have to do to protect themselves and the public," he said.

 

Karnes said his officers have taken only the minimum training in dealing with mentally ill suspects required by the state.

 

"Unless it's mandated by the state, we probably don't have enough time or money to do it," Karnes said. "Training costs money."

 

Crisis training is a priority for a state Supreme Court committee studying the mentally ill and the court system.

 

Such training is voluntary for police departments in Ohio, though a growing number are taking advantage of it.

 

"You can't deal with a mentally ill person like you can with a person who is rational," state Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton said Friday. "They don't think the same way. They're in a delusion."

 

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