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FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2020, file photo, Thomas Quinlan, chief of the Columbus Division of Police, speaks with the media at the Columbus Community Safety Advisory Commission in Columbus, Ohio. Quinlan was forced out Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, after the mayor who hired him said he'd lost confidence in Quinlan's ability to make needed changes to the department, weeks after the police killing of Andre Hill. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins, File)

Ohio police chief forced out in wake of Andre Hill killing

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and FARNOUSH AMIRI - Associated Press

A neighbor lights a candle at a small memorial near the site of the fatal police shooting of Andre Hill on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020 on Oberlin Drive in Columbus, Ohio. Hill, 47, was shot and killed by Columbus Division of Police officer Adam Coy after responding to a suspicious vehicle call around 1:30 a.m., on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020 in the 1000 block of Oberlin Drive. Body camera footage released Wednesday shows Andre Hill, a 47-year-old Black man, emerging from a garage and holding up a cellphone in his left hand seconds before he is fatally shot by a Columbus police officer. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

Ohio police chief urges officer who shot Black man be fired

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