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Columbus police pushed back protesters who tried to force their way into the downtown police headquarters Tuesday evening.

The police shooting of Black men — culminating with the death of 19-year-old Timothy Thomas — sparked days of civil unrest in Cincinnati in 2001. Protests, in some cases, turned destructive.

A Bail Project employee is suing the city of Cleveland and police officers over his arrest last year, saying his Downtown residency exempted him from the curfew order imposed after the May 30 demonstrations and rioting.

Separatist groups using the hag tag “White Lives Matter” are protesting throughout the nation this week including a gathering at the Ohio Statehouse.

Faced with a lack of cooperation, an independent investigator has issued orders for six Columbus Police officers to participate in a probe into excessive force during last summer’s protests.

The federal government dropped charges against two Pennsylvania men they originally said traveled to Cleveland on May 30 to participate in a riot.

The Cleveland Division of Police’s (CDP) use of force reporting and community engagement before and during the May 30 social justice protest in Downtown Cleveland are under scrutiny by the federal monitor overseeing the city’s police reform efforts. In a review of 29 officers’ use of force reports from May 30, the monitor found officers didn’t record the quantity of non-lethal munitions that were fired, making it hard to evaluate whether excessive force was used.

Columbus Police officers should be barred from using force to disperse peaceful demonstrators, a group of anti-racism protesters is arguing in a hearing…

Although no major protests ended up materializing, the Ohio Statehouse was on lockdown for a week surrounding the inauguration of President Joe Biden. The…

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