![]() ![]() Ĭolumbus officers are also almost always cleared of wrongdoing. Between 20, CPD officers fatally shot 28 people. In 2018, there have been 17 incidents involving officers shooting people, CPD confirmed. The Appeal requested the recording from the Columbus police but was told it would not be released at this time.ĭonna Dalton’s death comes on the heels of a number of other fatal, on-duty shootings by the Columbus police. She also confirmed that Columbus police have an audio recording of the incident with Dalton made by Mitchell as part of his undercover vice investigation. Officer Mitchell faced at least eight complaints since 2006, according to data obtained by The Appeal, and in two he was found be “outside of policy.” CPD public information officer Denise Alex-Bouzounis would only acknowledge there had been some complaints and say the internal investigation of Mitchell was still open. It declined to discuss the dozens of arrests he made for prostitution-related offenses like “soliciting” and “loitering soliciting.” And it could not provide The Appeal with the overall number of such arrests this year, though it did offer a chart with 596 arrests categorized as “prostitution” so far in 2018. The Columbus police department described Officer Mitchell as a 30-year veteran. Rich Weiner acknowledged this on the day of the shooting: Sex work, he said, “is such a nuisance to the neighborhood-that’s why we work these types of incidents.” ![]() There are still women out on the streets, she said, and police are also a constant presence. McCalla said she frequently drives by the spot where her sister was killed. The loss that we feel is deep and immediate.” “She was a friend, she was a family member, she was a mother, she was so many things to so many different people. ) She “wasn’t just a nobody, that’s the bottom line,” said McCalla. (Though Donna was identified as Donna Castleberry, her married name, by police, she went by Donna Dalton, McCalla told The Appeal. Around 100 people gathered for a vigil in her honor two days after her death, calling for answers and an end to police killings in a city where no officer has been indicted for an on-duty lethal shooting in 20 years.ĭalton was part of a huge family, explained Bobbi McCalla, her older sister. And the Columbus police confirmed to The Appeal that he is the subject of an internal affairs investigation, opened before the shooting, and multiple previous complaints.ĭonna Dalton’s killing has outraged her family and their extended community in Columbus. According to police records in a county court database he has already made 80 prostitution-related arrests in 2018, overwhelmingly of women. ![]() In the days since the incident, more information has trickled out about Mitchell. A media release from the police department, known as the CPD, later described her as “an armed suspect.” Mitchell and Dalton were brought to the same hospital he had wounds where police said she stabbed him in the hand. After what police called “an altercation” in his car, Mitchell shot and killed her. He tried to take Donna Dalton, a 23-year-old mother of two young girls and sex worker, into custody. 23, Officer Andrew Mitchell of the Columbus Division of Police in Ohio was working undercover, looking for women selling sex on the city’s West Side. ![]()
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