Once again, a trigger-happy Columbus police officer shot and killed an unarmed Black man. Police bodycam footage shows at least four officers and a police dog entering 20-year old Donovan Lewis’ home in the middle of the night August 30 to execute a warrant. Within a few minutes, Officer Ricky Anderson executed Lewis instead. This time it was one out of three police shootings in Columbus in eight days, although the other two victims survived.

“Columbus Police didn’t even attempt to de-escalate or negotiate with Donovan Lewis. Yet another case of an innocent person killed as the result of trigger-happy training. These things are constantly happening for a reason, the mentality and poor judgment of today’s law enforcement training,” said Cynthia Brown, who’s spearheading the effort to end qualified immunity in Ohio.

Qualified immunity protects government employees from civil suits, and arguably has evolved into absolute immunity for police.

Friday, September 2, 6pm
Columbus Police Dept. Headquarters, 120 Marconi Blvd.
Rally and march against the murder of Donovan Lewis by Columbus Police.

"Bullet Train" is an action-comedy film directed by David Leitch, screenplay by Zak Olkewicz, and based on the novel by Kôtarô Isaka. David leach was once a stuntman and is now making popular action flicks (Atomic Blonde) and (Deadpool 2). Creatively using humor and dazzling methods of acts of violence aboard a high-speed train and the likes of Brad Pitt couldn't save "Bullet Train" from mediocrity.

Brad Pitt plays the main protagonist, Ladybug; a professional assassin convinced he's cursed with "bad luck." After a sabbatical, Ladybug is the new and improved version of himself who no longer wants to do assassin things. His latest mission sends him to Japan to steal a briefcase full of goodies on a high-speed locomotive. An ongoing theme is that he doesn't want to kill anyone, yet miraculously they end up dying bizarrely.

Part Two

Student Life versus student lives?

Provost/OAA is not the worse example on campus. That ignoble prize goes to the Office of Student Life or SL. This model for disorganization and dysfunction is headed by a Vice President, who according to the one dimensional organizational chart on its dizzying uninformative website, sits above 10 Associate Vice Presidents and a “leadership team.”

Thursday, September 1, 7-9pm, Tuttle Park [on the south side of the Tuttle Community Center], 240 W. Oakland Ave.

If you’re looking to find both community and purpose from an extracurricular organization, join Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists at our annual pizza party kicking off the autumn semester.

Have meet-cutes with fellow radicals as you reach for the same slice of pizza (of which there are vegan, gluten-free, and kosher options), discuss politics, and learn about Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists [CORS] and opportunities to build the Left and enact change outside of the two-party system that’s failed us.

The pizza’s also free, like all food should be.

Consume it “picnic-style” just north of OSU campus, on the south side of the Tuttle Recreation Center, or Zoom in for the discussion portions of our meeting at tinyurl.com/CORSmeeting.