“There’s the colloquial saying, ‘Don’t talk about it, be about it.’ Let’s see something happen, not just conversation and conversation,' Donovan Lewis' mother, Rebecca Duran, said during a Thursday press conference outside of Columbus City Hall.
As new video offered a fresh vantage point of the killing ofa 20-year-old Black man fatally shot in bed last month by a Columbus Police officer while possibly holding a vape pen, the slain man’s family issued a fresh call for justice.
Duran’s demand for “justice for Donovan” came as the Columbus Division of Police released new body-camera footage showing the painful aftermath of the early morning Aug. 30 incident. In the footage, Duran is seen explaining to an officer at the scene that she received a call from Lewis’ girlfriend about the shooting—and asks which hospital her son was taken to.
The mother is then seen explaining in the footage that her son is “mentally ill” and that she had “begged” for help for him for years. On Thursday, Duran explained that she tried “consistently” to get Lewis to see counselors and psychiatrists for a majority of his life. Body-camera footage initially released the day of the shooting showed that after knocking for about eight minutes and apprehending two other people in the apartment, officers went into a back bedroom where Lewis was sleeping—and that he was shot about a second after the door was opened. Lewis had one hand raised as Officer Ricky Anderson, who had a K-9, fired a single gunshot.
“There were police and dogs in his apartment,” Elliott said. The lawyer claimed that it took six minutes for authorities to render a medical aid on the 20-year-old. “The police called her and said that he died and they revived him and they were still working on him and he was unresponsive,” she added. Earlier this week, LaTonya Lewis spoke to theabout losing her boyfriend and father of her child—and the guilt she feels knowing her call to police about their argument could have spurred a chain of events that led to his death.
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