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Speaker 1: The fourth of December twenty twenty began as a quiet
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Speaker 1: morning at the Payne family home in Columbus, Ohio. The
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Speaker 1: regular calm of the household was interrupted when twenty three
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Speaker 1: year old Casey returned home from his dentist appointment. Casey
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Speaker 1: was shot to death just inside the doorway of his
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Speaker 1: grandmother's house, the sandwiches he had purchased for lunch falling
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Speaker 1: to the ground next to him. The following moments were
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Speaker 1: traumatic and chaotic. In the confusion, a few things became clear.
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Speaker 1: Casey had been killed by a sheriff's deputy. He had
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Speaker 1: no criminal history or associations, and had been trying to
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Speaker 1: enter the house where he lived. But Casey also carried
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Speaker 1: a gun. Hi there, I'm Kevin, and welcome to Just
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Speaker 1: Thought Lounge. Today. We're tackling a case years in the making.
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Speaker 1: It's a controversial one, and it's easy to see why.
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Speaker 1: This is a story about perception. Depending on how you
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Speaker 1: view the events, you'll come to very different conclusions. Let's
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Speaker 1: take a look. Sharon Payne had lived in her house
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Speaker 1: on a state's place in Columbus, Ohio for twenty three years.
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Speaker 1: By December twenty twenty, she had retired from decades working
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Speaker 1: in customer service at a local bank. Sharon was a widow,
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Speaker 1: but the house that she and her husband had purchased
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Speaker 1: so many years ago was now full of the family
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Speaker 1: that they had built together. On the morning of December fourth,
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Speaker 1: her daughter Tamila dropped her five year old son at
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Speaker 1: the house before going to work. He was unwell and
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Speaker 1: unable to attend school that day. Sharon was also caring
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Speaker 1: for her ten year old granddaughter and four year old
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Speaker 1: great granddaughter that morning. As it approached noon, she prepared
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Speaker 1: bowls of oatmeal for the children, bringing two of the
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Speaker 1: little ones to her room at the back of the house.
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Speaker 1: The youngest, four year old Leah, sat at the kitchen table.
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Speaker 1: Off of the kitchen is a side door to the house,
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Speaker 1: the one commonly used by the family while the children ate.
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Speaker 1: This side door was unlocked and opened almost simultaneously, a
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Speaker 1: series of loud, popping noises rang out. Debris from gunfire
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Speaker 1: flew into the small kitchen. Sharon's grandson, Casey Goodson, or
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Speaker 1: c J, as his family affectionately knew him, fell face
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Speaker 1: first from the doorway on to the kitchen. Floor nine
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Speaker 1: one one.
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Speaker 2: What is the address of your emergency.
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Speaker 3: Goes, thanks, Ye, what's the emergency?
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Speaker 4: My grandfather just got that in the back.
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Speaker 2: He come in the house or I don't know if
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Speaker 2: he's still up.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what just happened?
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Speaker 2: My grandfather just got sawed? Okay?
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Speaker 5: Where did this happen?
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Speaker 6: Oft my house?
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Speaker 2: Who lives awaiting?
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Speaker 7: So?
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Speaker 8: Who shot him?
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Speaker 9: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I just heard the gunshocking, not what got up? And
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Speaker 2: he's rating in the door, okay.
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Speaker 5: And nobody saw anything prior to this.
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Speaker 2: No, he went through the demist somewhere and came home.
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Speaker 2: And I find that has a bunch of gunfire.
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Speaker 5: He's got a big kit.
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Speaker 2: He's don't have a free record, he works.
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Speaker 7: I don't the house.
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Speaker 1: Is there anybody in the house that can tell you
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Speaker 1: who shot him?
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Speaker 10: No, they don't know.
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Speaker 2: They were stretting and everybody in the house.
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Speaker 1: I go on, that's okay, we've got help headed that way.
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Speaker 11: Did they say if anybody was outside arguing with him
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Speaker 11: or anything? Part of me? Did he breathing?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. They want a man to get him mine.
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Speaker 1: Sharon's son, Ernest, had been in the living room when
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Speaker 1: Casey fell through the doorway. Casey's younger sister, seventeen year
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Speaker 1: old Janey, was in her room just down the hallway.
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Speaker 1: They collected the children and insisted that Sharon keep her
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Speaker 1: distance from the kitchen. From the back of the house,
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Speaker 1: the grandmother tried to explain to the operator what had occurred.
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Speaker 1: Did he say if he had like any disuse with anybody?
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Speaker 7: No, not so, I know.
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Speaker 2: I'm not aware anything.
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Speaker 11: Okay, what's your name and telephone number, ma'am Sharon time.
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Speaker 1: Do you know if he was dropped off by anyone.
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Speaker 2: No, he went to the damist in some way, he
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Speaker 2: dropping Mac. I don't know what happened. Okay, I don't
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Speaker 2: know What'll it off all right.
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Speaker 1: After emergency responders reached the house, Sharon Payne, overwhelmed and distressed,
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Speaker 1: fainted on the front steps. She was hospitalized for two days.
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Speaker 1: When Sharon awoke from her treatment, the first thing she
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Speaker 1: remembered was seeing her grandson gunned down and no longer conscious,
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Speaker 1: collapsed on her kitchen floor.
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Speaker 2: I heard the gunshot, but I didn't put together right
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Speaker 2: away that it was gunshots because I was so shocked.
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Speaker 2: This is the door he was coming in. Death beat
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Speaker 2: took the screen that he was shot when I saw
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Speaker 2: him he was laying here with three bulletholes in his back,
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Speaker 2: a big one in the middle of his shoulder blade.
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Speaker 2: I'll never forget what happened because I saw him on
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Speaker 2: the floor, and I saw the bulletholes in his back,
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Speaker 2: and that's something that I can't get out of my hand.
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Speaker 1: The Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Straight Team, known as so FAST,
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Speaker 1: is a law enforcement unit operated and supervised by the
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Speaker 1: US Marshall Service. It is made up of federal, state,
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Speaker 1: and local law enforcement officers. The purpose of the unit
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Speaker 1: is to locate and apprehend fugitives with active warrants for
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Speaker 1: their arrest. On the morning of December fourth, the US
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Speaker 1: Marshall's team had a warrant for the arrest of an
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Speaker 1: individual who lived on a State's Place just down the
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Speaker 1: road from Sharon Payne's house. The team was unsuccessful in
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Speaker 1: apprehending the fugitive they sought that morning he wasn't at home.
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Speaker 1: At around noon, the task force leader instructed the deputies
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Speaker 1: back to the office where they could regroup. So FAST
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Speaker 1: Officer Ryan Rosser was driving his unmarked US Marshall's truck
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Speaker 1: from a State's Place, turning left onto Ferris Road. He
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Speaker 1: followed the truck driven by another member of the task Force,
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Speaker 1: Franklin County Sheriff's Deputy Jason Mead, a full time member
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Speaker 1: of so FAST. Deputy Mead also drove an unmarked Marshall's truck.
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Speaker 1: The two vehicles proceeded down a short stretch on Ferris
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Speaker 1: Road before approaching the intersection with Carrol Road, where they
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Speaker 1: both slowed to a stop on a red light. When
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Speaker 1: it was time to proceed through the intersection, Rosser watched
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Speaker 1: as the truck ahead of him made his turn, only
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Speaker 1: to do a U turn and come straight back towards him.
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Speaker 1: Deputy Mead slowed as he past his teammate's truck with
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Speaker 1: the windows rolled down. He stated to Rosser in a panic,
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Speaker 1: We've got to go. He's got a gun. He's got
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Speaker 1: a gun, Ryan Rosser, You turned as well and followed
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Speaker 1: Deputy Mead back to a state's place in the direction
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Speaker 1: they had just come. But when they arrived, Mead did
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Speaker 1: not return to the house where they had executed the
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Speaker 1: warrant that morning. Instead, Rosser watched as his teammate parked,
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Speaker 1: jumped out of the cap of his truck, and ran
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Speaker 1: towards the tailgate. Jason Mead rapidly retrieved his gear. He
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Speaker 1: put on his bulletproof vest and grabbed his rifle. Jason
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Speaker 1: then indicated towards a man who had just gotten out
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Speaker 1: of a small black car up the street, the same
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Speaker 1: car that he had followed from the intersection. That's him,
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Speaker 1: Mead said. Before Rosser could gather his gear, Deputy Mead
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Speaker 1: had jumped back into his truck and driven further down
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Speaker 1: the road towards the man who was moving towards what
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Speaker 1: appeared to be the back of one of the houses.
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Speaker 1: The small car he drove, a Nissan Versa, was parked
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Speaker 1: on the wrong side of the road, and now, according
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Speaker 1: to Rosser, the suspect had picked up speed on foot
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Speaker 1: while he moved closer to the back of the house.
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Speaker 1: Officer Rosser, as well as neighbors on the road, heard
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Speaker 1: Jason Meade call out, show me your hands, show me
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Speaker 1: your hands. Then just moments later, shots were fired.
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Speaker 12: Came out, Yeah, Julie, as first go to the charger.
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Speaker 12: I was wandering.
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Speaker 1: Bodycam footage from responding local police caught the moments after
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Speaker 1: the shooting. At that time, the US Marshal Service were
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Speaker 1: in the early stages of rolling out a body warn
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Speaker 1: camera program to their task force units across the country.
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Speaker 1: Officer Rosser nor Deputy Mead wore a camera that day.
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Speaker 1: In the house, Casey's grandmother Sharon and sister Janey both
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Speaker 1: caught a glimpse of the aftermath in the kitchen before
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Speaker 1: they were ushered from the room and ultimately out of
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Speaker 1: the house by law enforcement. They saw CIJ face down
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Speaker 1: on the floor. When responding officers turned him over, seeking
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Speaker 1: to provide medical aid, they found Casey's handgun on the
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Speaker 1: floor under him. It was out of its holster, but
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Speaker 1: the safety remained on. CJ owned the gun legally, and
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Speaker 1: he had a concealed carried permit. Next to Casey was
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Speaker 1: a bag of subway sandwiches collected on his trip home
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Speaker 1: from the dentist, and his ears were an AirPod headset
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Speaker 1: borrowed from his younger sister, and the main door were
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Speaker 1: his set of keys. The secondary external storm door, with
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Speaker 1: a glass and metal mesh covering the top half, had
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Speaker 1: been shattered. Three gunshot holes were made through this external door.
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Speaker 1: There were six shell casings located next to the gate
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Speaker 1: leading to the side door. It was from this location
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Speaker 1: that Jason Meade had fired his rifle. The deputy, having
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Speaker 1: his weapon set to automatic, had pulled the trigger only once,
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Speaker 1: but that had the effect of firing six bullets. All
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Speaker 1: of these had found their target. C J sustained six
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Speaker 1: gunshot wounds, five to the torso and one in the buttocks.
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Speaker 1: All six entered from the back. Casey had not been
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Speaker 1: facing Jason Meade when the deputy fired. The shots had
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Speaker 1: been fatal. Despite US Marshall's rendering aid rapidly, it was
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Speaker 1: too late. An investigation into the shooting was launched. Casey
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Speaker 1: Goodson Junior was twenty three years old when he died.
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Speaker 1: After graduate was waiting from high school. CJ studied and
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Speaker 1: obtained his commercial driving license, and for a time he
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Speaker 1: took on a truck driving job, doing long haul trips
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Speaker 1: for a Walmart supplier. Casey loved it. It took him
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Speaker 1: from Ohio to California, but it also took him away
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Speaker 1: from his family. Earlier in the year, CJ's mother, Tamala,
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Speaker 1: gave birth prematurely to twins. After this, CJ moved back
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Speaker 1: home to Columbus and took a job working in a
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Speaker 1: warehouse to help contribute financially. He also lent a hand
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Speaker 1: with the new arrivals. Casey thought he would eventually return
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Speaker 1: to driving trucks, maybe even start his own company one day.
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Speaker 7: It's a Sidney, you know. He didn't live the hyper
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Speaker 7: lifestyle that you would even worry about him being shot
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Speaker 7: by anybody, let alone the police. He's never been in trouble.
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Speaker 7: Casey was a great kid every aspect. So from the beginning,
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Speaker 7: it's been my goal to show the world exactly who
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Speaker 7: case He.
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Speaker 2: Was, because he didn't do it. He didn't deserve to
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Speaker 2: be shop period, let alone killed. He's not that kind
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Speaker 2: of kid, and I'm sure they've found that out by now.
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Speaker 1: Deputy Jason Mead was a seventeen year veteran of the
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Speaker 1: Franklin County Sheriff's Department. In December twenty twenty, he was
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Speaker 1: a full time member of the so Fast Unit as
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Speaker 1: a reserved Marine. In two thousand and five, Jason was
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Speaker 1: deployed for a seven month tour of duty with Lima
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Speaker 1: Company in Iraq. After several years in the reserves, he
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Speaker 1: was honorably discharged from the US Marine Corps. Personally, Jason
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Speaker 1: is known as a man of faith and family. He
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Speaker 1: has been married for over twenty years to his high
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Speaker 1: school sweetheart, and they have two children together. Since twenty fourteen,
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Speaker 1: Jason Mead has also been pastor at Rosedale Freewill Baptist
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Speaker 1: Church in the community of Erwin in Madison County. It
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Speaker 1: has been described by his associate pastor as a little
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Speaker 1: country rechurch with about eighty congregants. It seems that for
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Speaker 1: many years Jason Meade had merged his religious beliefs with
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Speaker 1: his work in law enforcement. In a video series produced
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Speaker 1: by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office in twenty eighteen called
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Speaker 1: Connecting with the Community, Jason spoke of his service to
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Speaker 1: the public as Jesus was a servant to God.
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Speaker 4: You know, being a reverend and doing the police work.
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Speaker 4: How do you balance that right because of the work
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Speaker 4: that you have to do.
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Speaker 13: I can see where you would ask that question, because
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Speaker 13: I've dealt with this with a lot of believers on
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Speaker 13: this line of work, and there was this common thought
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Speaker 13: that was always presented to me that I leave my
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Speaker 13: Christianity at the door. I leave my Christianity at the door,
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Speaker 13: and I go, why the greatest servant that will ever
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Speaker 13: know of ever in the history of this world is
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Speaker 13: Jesus Christ, God's only son. He was the servant of
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Speaker 13: all servants.
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Speaker 14: What are we serve the public?
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Speaker 1: He also explained his understanding of the use of force
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Speaker 1: in his work. He calls it righteous release.
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Speaker 13: There is times for righteous release. That's what I call
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Speaker 13: it when we have a use of force, because every
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Speaker 13: now and then you have to actually use force. We
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Speaker 13: don't go around looking for it because we don't have to.
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Speaker 13: Plenty of people out there will give you that opportunity,
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Speaker 13: so we don't have to be boys going looking for it.
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Speaker 13: That's why I say it's a righteous release. There is
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Speaker 13: release in our job that righteously we can actually have
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Speaker 13: a use of force. And I've had people say, how
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Speaker 13: can you how can you heard some Jesus said to
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Speaker 13: turn the other check and I say, read your Bible.
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Speaker 13: He ain't talking about physically getting slapped in the side
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Speaker 13: of the face.
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Speaker 4: And you know, with this being in you, is that
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Speaker 4: you know when you do have to wrest somebody or
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Speaker 4: it is it is it is not something that's that
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Speaker 4: that you would go overboard or you know. The thing
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Speaker 4: is is that you want to take care of this
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Speaker 4: but also to be as compassion as possible. Yes, empathy
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Speaker 4: for what wow. Faith, family and service. Now that's what
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Speaker 4: it's all about. So we appreciate you, the viewing audience,
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Speaker 4: for being a part of this great conversation.
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Speaker 1: In the same year, Jason spoke at the convention for
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Speaker 1: Ohio Free Will Baptists. Here he spoke about the story
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Speaker 1: of David and Goliath and how he was justified in
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Speaker 1: throwing the first punch.
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Speaker 13: You know David did, he threw the first punch. He
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Speaker 13: threw the first punch. Didn't I all this to throw
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Speaker 13: the first punch? You say what, I don't know. Let
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Speaker 13: me tell you something I meant. I worked for the
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Speaker 13: Sheriff's office down Franklin County, Columbus. I'm working on a
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Speaker 13: tactle swat team and I also worked for US Marshall's
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Speaker 13: task Force.
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Speaker 14: I hunt people. It's a great job. I love it.
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Speaker 13: I've worked as job fourteen years and now I never
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Speaker 13: been hit clean in the face one time.
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Speaker 7: It's a fact.
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Speaker 13: And because I'm so good, I ain't bad. But I
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Speaker 13: ain't because I'm so good. You know why, Because I
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Speaker 13: learned long ago I gotta throw the first punch. And
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Speaker 13: I learned a long ago. Why I'm justified and throwing
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Speaker 13: the first punch. Don't look up here like oh. Police
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Speaker 13: were telling people I hit you wish you could hit
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Speaker 13: trust me, right, Yeah, you throw a punch and the
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Speaker 13: pursuit will follow.
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Speaker 1: Jason continued to explain how the use of force and
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Speaker 1: law enforcement is a reminder that there is a God
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Speaker 1: in heaven. He describes the emotions as contagious and references
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Speaker 1: the unity it brings the team.
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Speaker 3: Unity.
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Speaker 15: They arose, this is gonna bother some of you and shouted.
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Speaker 13: And pursued the philistines. Anybody will put the devil on
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Speaker 13: a run. My favorite part is when the devil gets
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Speaker 13: put on the run. And let me tell you why.
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Speaker 13: Look what keeps going. They pursued.
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Speaker 15: The punch was thrown, the damage was dealt, the champion fell,
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Speaker 15: the enemy ran. Now this army is full of courage.
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Speaker 15: They're reminded of the promise. They're reminded of the anointing.
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Speaker 15: They're reminded there's a God in heaven. They're reminded that
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Speaker 15: there is victory in Jesus. They run after them, and
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Speaker 15: they chased them off.
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Speaker 13: Today, somebody needs to throw the first punch. David was
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Speaker 13: the first one to do it, and then will happen.
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Speaker 14: Everybody follows.
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Speaker 15: I tell you it's contagious.
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Speaker 13: One of my swat guys throws a punch. I gotta
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Speaker 13: throw win in two.
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Speaker 6: It's the truth.
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Speaker 13: We have this little saying, Hey, if you're wanna get trouble,
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Speaker 13: I'm gonna get in trouble too. You get days off,
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Speaker 13: I get days off.
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Speaker 15: Two We'll make a vacation out of it.
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Speaker 1: On June thirteen, twenty eighteen, shortly before the video was
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Speaker 1: posted by the Sheriff's Office, Deputy Mead was among seven
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Speaker 1: officers who fired their weapons during a standoff in Pike
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Speaker 1: County that ended with two men dead. In that case,
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Speaker 1: Deputy Mead was part of a SWAT team called in
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Speaker 1: to execute a warrant for a forty four year old
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Speaker 1: man named David Arthur. David was wanted for drug possession
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Speaker 1: and was thought to be armed. He was located at
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Speaker 1: his friend's home, a man named Barry Leith in Pike County.
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Speaker 1: A negotiator tried unsuccessfully to lure David from the home
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Speaker 1: for hours. Eventually, the Franklin County swat team was called in.
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Speaker 1: They used a hydraulic ram attached to one of two
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Speaker 1: bear Cat armored vehicles to begin tearing holes in the house.
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Speaker 1: The team spent two hours ramming the building and estimated
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Speaker 1: twenty times before finally, seeing no movement inside, decided to enter.
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Speaker 1: The suspect was found on the living room floor, sitting
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Speaker 1: with his back against the sofa. The deputy said that
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Speaker 1: he appeared uninjured. Those in the room all stated that
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Speaker 1: he had raised his gun towards them. Then at least
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Speaker 1: three SWAP members opened fire, including Deputy Mead, striking him
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Speaker 1: in the chest, head and neck. David's friend Larry was
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Speaker 1: later found deceased under the rubble in the living room.
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Speaker 1: He had been shot by Arthur hours earlier. An investigation
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Speaker 1: of the shooting, which included at least five detectives from
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Speaker 1: Franklin County, found none of the shooters to be at
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Speaker 1: fault for David's death. However, an autopsy on David Arthur
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Speaker 1: found that he was likely dead for hours before the
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Speaker 1: SWAT team even entered the house. The medical examiner found
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Speaker 1: that a single self inflicted gunshot to the head, delivered
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Speaker 1: roughly two hours earlier, when shots were heard from their
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Speaker 1: position outside, would have been fatal. Nonetheless, in the immediate
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Speaker 1: aftermath of the shooting, the deputies stated that after firing
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Speaker 1: several rounds at David, all of a sudden, the suspect
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Speaker 1: gasped for air, opened his eyes, and instantly leveled his
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Speaker 1: pistol and pointed it directly at Deputy Mead. At that point, Jason,
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Speaker 1: Mead and two other deputies again opened fire, even though
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Speaker 1: it was later determined that it was extremely unlikely that
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Speaker 1: David was alive incapable of pointing his weapon at the deputies.
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Speaker 1: The investigation reasoned that under the circumstances, the involved deputies
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Speaker 1: acted appropriately to stop the threat posed by David Arthur.
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Speaker 1: The twenty eighteen incident was not the only time that
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Speaker 1: Deputy Mead found himself in hot water due to his
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Speaker 1: actions on the job. In twenty nineteen, a year after
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Speaker 1: the death of David Arthur, Jason was issued a reprimand
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Speaker 1: for inappropriate use of his taser on Assie Aspect and
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Speaker 1: failure to report using it. As the deputy's history was
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Speaker 1: slowly uncovered and it leaked to the media, the pressure
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Speaker 1: and controversy surrounding Casey Goodson's death reached new heights in
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Speaker 1: the days, weeks and months after the shooting, with an
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Speaker 1: investigation ongoing protesters attended the Sunday service at Jason Mead's church,
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Speaker 1: calling the pastor a killer. The associate pastor, Paul Moore
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Speaker 1: told them that they were welcome, but not if they
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Speaker 1: were going to be disruptive.
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Speaker 8: But I can't, adding that now.
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Speaker 3: There's two sides to every story.
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Speaker 1: Jason Meade was not giving the sermon that week, concerned
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Speaker 1: for his own safety. The deputy was at home. He
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Speaker 1: had left his work as well, initially being released unpaid leave,
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Speaker 1: and then eventually as the investigation dragged on over several months,
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Speaker 1: taking an early retirement from the Sheriff's office and so
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Speaker 1: fast faced with an officer involved shooting and a potential
22:24
Speaker 1: conflict of interest, the Columbus Police had requested that the
22:27
Speaker 1: Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation take over the case. They refused.
22:33
Speaker 1: The BCI released a statement explaining that a full three
22:36
Speaker 1: days had passed before the request was made to them
22:40
Speaker 1: to take over and no explanation had been provided that
22:43
Speaker 1: would account for this delay. Due to this ambiguity, they
22:47
Speaker 1: declined the case. It was eventually given to the Department
22:51
Speaker 1: of Justice. That investigation has been praised even by Casey's mother,
22:57
Speaker 1: Tamla as thorough and thoughtful, but the investigative process was
23:02
Speaker 1: a slow one. As the criminal case was built against
23:08
Speaker 1: Deputy Mead. Two special prosecutors, both formerly state attorneys, were
23:13
Speaker 1: given the task of presenting an indictment. Roughly one year
23:18
Speaker 1: after the shooting, Deputy Mead was charged with murder. In
23:22
Speaker 1: December twenty twenty one, Jason Mead was released on a
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond as he awaited trial.
23:32
Speaker 2: This was an.
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Speaker 7: Amazing investigation down by the dj This was hours to
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Speaker 7: put in spent in.
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Speaker 5: Jason me will be held accountable and Casey's death, and
23:43
Speaker 5: that accountability will lead to justice, brothers. In addition to
23:47
Speaker 5: the criminal indictment that has been handed down today, we've
23:51
Speaker 5: also filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Jason Mead
23:56
Speaker 5: in Franklin County. Obviously, we know what Jason meads liability
24:00
Speaker 5: is here. He was an individual that targeted, pursued, and
24:07
Speaker 5: shot and killed Casey from behind walking into his own home,
24:12
Speaker 5: but Franklin County is also liable for Jason Mean's actions.
24:20
Speaker 1: The civil suit alleged that Jason Mead's behavior and prior
24:23
Speaker 1: documented incidents made him a ticking time bomb. The lawsuit
24:28
Speaker 1: asserts that Franklin County failed to sufficiently supervise, investigate, discipline, counsel,
24:34
Speaker 1: and or train the deputy. It refers to his views
24:38
Speaker 1: on religion and the use of force, referring to Jason
24:41
Speaker 1: as seemingly a religious zealot and holding viewpoints that county
24:46
Speaker 1: law enforcement were aware of and that are problematic. In addition,
24:51
Speaker 1: the lack of training provided to Jason in any area
24:54
Speaker 1: outside of firearms is a key point in the filing.
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Speaker 1: Year after year, eighty to ninety hours of courses were
25:02
Speaker 1: provided to Deputy Mead, covering topics such as active shooters, marksmanship,
25:07
Speaker 1: and rifle pistol training, but none that focused on ethics.
25:12
Speaker 1: The last training on de escalation that Jason received was
25:16
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, when he reported completing the course in
25:20
Speaker 1: under four minutes. Another course, listed as a full day
25:25
Speaker 1: program stretching from eight a m. To four pm, entitled
25:28
Speaker 1: Victims with Special Needs, was completed online in one minute
25:33
Speaker 1: and sixteen seconds. Jason Meade could not be deposed for
25:39
Speaker 1: the civil suit until after the criminal trial. Nonetheless, Jason's
25:44
Speaker 1: version of events and the basis of his defense emerged
25:48
Speaker 1: through his lawyer. The deputy said that he witnessed c J.
25:51
Speaker 1: Goodman aiming his gun towards another car on the road
25:54
Speaker 1: as the twenty three year old waited to take a
25:57
Speaker 1: left through the intersection at Ferris and Hurl Road on
26:00
Speaker 1: December fourth. Then, after making his turn, CJ. Pointed his
26:05
Speaker 1: gun directly at Deputy Mead as their vehicles past each
26:09
Speaker 1: other performing a U turn. The deputy pursued Casey back
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Speaker 1: to his house. Once parked on the wrong side of
26:16
Speaker 1: the road, Casey ran for Mead towards the back of
26:19
Speaker 1: a house at the threshold of the door and with
26:23
Speaker 1: his back still turned. Jason said that he raised his
26:26
Speaker 1: gun at the deputy once more. Upon seeing that threat,
26:30
Speaker 1: he fired, and as.
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Speaker 14: He was heading back to their headquarters, witnessed a young
26:37
Speaker 14: man waving a gun at an intersection. The gun was
26:40
Speaker 14: tracking people that were coming across that individual's direction. Saw
26:45
Speaker 14: the young man get out of the car. He had
26:47
Speaker 14: a plastic bag in his left hand and he had
26:49
Speaker 14: the gun in his right hand. The young man turned
26:51
Speaker 14: and looked at Jason Mead. At that point in time,
26:54
Speaker 14: two other US Marshal's task force pulled up. Jason indicated
26:57
Speaker 14: that's the guy that's the guy. At that point, I'm
27:00
Speaker 14: the gentleman. Mister Goodson turned and the gun was pointed
27:03
Speaker 14: to my client. My client jumped to the left and
27:05
Speaker 14: fired at mister Goodson. It's a proper use of force,
27:09
Speaker 14: and he had to make a split second decision, and
27:11
Speaker 14: based on the non compliance and based on the gun
27:13
Speaker 14: pointing back to him, he thought that there was no
27:17
Speaker 14: other option. He had to use lethal force.
27:20
Speaker 1: Jason Meads to trial in early twenty twenty four. He
27:23
Speaker 1: faced two counts of murder and one of reckless homicide.
27:28
Speaker 1: In a case where an officer's use of force is questionable,
27:31
Speaker 1: the law says that jurors are only meant to evaluate
27:34
Speaker 1: what that officer knew or could have reasonably believed in
27:38
Speaker 1: making their decision to act. This effectively means that the
27:41
Speaker 1: reality of the situation, whether Casey Goodson intended to evade arrest,
27:47
Speaker 1: shoot another driver, or fire his gun at the deputy,
27:50
Speaker 1: is second to what Jason Mead perceived was likely at
27:54
Speaker 1: the time.
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Speaker 9: On December fourth, twenty twenty, a person was seen waving
28:01
Speaker 9: a firearm in a Nissan Versa. He pointed that same
28:05
Speaker 9: firearm at Jason Mead, an on duty police officer while
28:09
Speaker 9: Jason was in his unmarked vehicle. Jason has a duty
28:14
Speaker 9: to investigate.
28:15
Speaker 2: This type of behavior.
28:17
Speaker 9: This man has a weapon, he ran away from him,
28:21
Speaker 9: and he's trying to get into a house. He's screaming,
28:27
Speaker 9: drop the weapon, drop the weapon. The gunman never drops
28:31
Speaker 9: the weapon. Instead, as that gunman is trying to get
28:36
Speaker 9: into this house, he turns and points a weapon at Jason,
28:40
Speaker 9: and in that split second, Jason.
28:42
Speaker 11: Believes he's going to be shot.
28:44
Speaker 9: Because he sees the gunpoint at him for a second time,
28:49
Speaker 9: and Jason shoots.
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Speaker 1: Sharon Payne told the jury that Casey often carried his
28:57
Speaker 1: handgun with him. He held it in a holster in
28:59
Speaker 1: the of his waistband. This was an uncomfortable location when driving,
29:04
Speaker 1: she assumed, and so she observed that when Casey drove
29:07
Speaker 1: her anywhere, he would remove the gun and place it
29:10
Speaker 1: in the front center console of the car. Jason's defense
29:14
Speaker 1: team presented a photo of CJ posed with his handgun
29:17
Speaker 1: pointing it at the camera. It was taken in the
29:21
Speaker 1: driver's seat of the Nissan Versa. Jason Meade took the
29:28
Speaker 1: stand to tell his version of events that day. Jason
29:31
Speaker 1: had previously signed a statement which alleged that CIJ had
29:35
Speaker 1: tracked another vehicle through the intersection with a gun pointing
29:39
Speaker 1: it at the car while he waited to make his turn.
29:43
Speaker 1: Once confronted with the video, which showed Casey making a
29:46
Speaker 1: continuous left turn without pausing, the deputy altered this testimony.
29:52
Speaker 1: He said instead that CJ was pointing the gun around erratically.
29:56
Speaker 1: He pointed it at another vehicle after completing his turn.
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Speaker 8: Uh.
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Speaker 13: As soon as I pulled up to the intersection, it's
30:04
Speaker 13: a red light, and I happen to looked to the right,
30:06
Speaker 13: and I seen a vehicle approaching from the north. There
30:09
Speaker 13: was a dark colored Uh look what looked like maybe
30:11
Speaker 13: a hatchback. And as it was approaching, what caught my
30:14
Speaker 13: eye As I saw movement in the window as it
30:18
Speaker 13: was approaching, as it got closer, I realized, somebody's who
30:22
Speaker 13: the document who's driving the car is got a gun
30:25
Speaker 13: in his hand.
30:26
Speaker 12: And how did you describe a gentleman for what you said? Movement?
30:30
Speaker 12: How was what movement? Did you do you remember saying?
30:33
Speaker 13: I saw a movement almost like it was pumping like
30:36
Speaker 13: this toward the front to the windshield. I aired on
30:40
Speaker 13: the radio immediately to my team on the US Marshall's channel,
30:43
Speaker 13: exactly what I.
30:44
Speaker 12: Had seen, ladies and Nola drew what what do you
30:47
Speaker 12: remember saying?
30:48
Speaker 13: Uh, where's the effect of? Hey, guys, I'm at the
30:50
Speaker 13: intersection here at Carl and Ferris, and I've got a
30:52
Speaker 13: guy waving a gun.
30:54
Speaker 12: Is a criminal offence to be waving a gun and
30:56
Speaker 12: pointing at somebody?
30:57
Speaker 13: Yes, where are you going to pursue him? Because I
31:01
Speaker 13: don't know what his intentions are at this point. He
31:03
Speaker 13: just pointed a gun at me. I have no idea
31:05
Speaker 13: where he came from or what he's going to and
31:07
Speaker 13: it's my lawful duty to investigate.
31:09
Speaker 12: In terms of a threat. Is a person with a
31:11
Speaker 12: gun waving it and pointing a threat? Is it something
31:14
Speaker 12: that you're obligated so that you have to go forward
31:17
Speaker 12: and investigate?
31:18
Speaker 5: Yes, it is.
31:19
Speaker 13: When he got out of the car, I saw him
31:21
Speaker 13: get out of the car. He had a plastic bag
31:23
Speaker 13: in one hand, and I believe it was in his
31:24
Speaker 13: left hand, and then in his right hand he still
31:26
Speaker 13: had the gun.
31:27
Speaker 12: Did he see you?
31:28
Speaker 11: Yes?
31:30
Speaker 13: Yeah, So I'm facing him in between my truck and
31:33
Speaker 13: Roster's truck, and I had already got my best on
31:36
Speaker 13: and I actually point and I say, hey, there he is.
31:40
Speaker 13: And through the discourse, I said, the guy with the gun,
31:42
Speaker 13: and he has the gun in his hand right now,
31:45
Speaker 13: he saw me and he turned and he took off
31:48
Speaker 13: the other direction, right.
31:51
Speaker 16: Yeah.
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Speaker 12: What does that mean to you at that point in time?
31:54
Speaker 12: What goes through your mind based on your training and experience.
31:58
Speaker 13: That the suspect is trying to flee in the loud
32:01
Speaker 13: and police officers side of him. So by the time
32:04
Speaker 13: I get I jumped in the truck because I grabbed
32:05
Speaker 13: my rifle, which was in the back seat. I grabbed
32:08
Speaker 13: my rifle and pulled the sling over my head and
32:11
Speaker 13: I jumped into the driver's seat of the truck, closed
32:14
Speaker 13: the door, and I took off. By that time, I'd
32:15
Speaker 13: already lost sight of him, and I saw was he
32:18
Speaker 13: I lost sight of him because I saw him duck
32:20
Speaker 13: in behind a house behind the house a house, yeah,
32:24
Speaker 13: the house.
32:25
Speaker 14: No.
32:26
Speaker 13: So when he took off from this house, he bypassed
32:28
Speaker 13: all front doors and then cut in behind a fence.
32:32
Speaker 12: So you get up to the area where the exhibit
32:35
Speaker 12: was with your car, what do you see?
32:36
Speaker 13: So once I pulled up to where my you saw
32:38
Speaker 13: in the picture where.
32:39
Speaker 14: My truck stopped.
32:40
Speaker 13: I stopped because I could actually see the suspect opening
32:43
Speaker 13: the store door and getting in, looking like going into
32:46
Speaker 13: a side door of a house.
32:47
Speaker 12: Why is that? Why is that a thrut chase?
32:50
Speaker 13: Uh, he's an armed suspect. I don't know where he's
32:54
Speaker 13: come from. I don't know who's home this is. I
32:56
Speaker 13: don't know what he's going to do. All I know
32:57
Speaker 13: is he just pointed a gun at me, and now
32:59
Speaker 13: he's running from me. After he had stopped, I give
33:03
Speaker 13: him more commands again, at which point he made a
33:05
Speaker 13: turn and pointed a gun back toward me.
33:07
Speaker 12: What did you do?
33:09
Speaker 13: I stepped to the left and I shot him. Wow,
33:13
Speaker 13: Because he pointed his gun at me, I thought I
33:14
Speaker 13: was going to die, back towards back to me, and
33:17
Speaker 13: then he made a turn like this, bringing the gun up.
33:19
Speaker 16: And pointed it back to me.
33:21
Speaker 12: What went through your mind when you saw that gun?
33:26
Speaker 13: I thought I thought he was going to shoot me.
33:29
Speaker 13: I'm thinking I don't want to die, no very reason
33:32
Speaker 13: I thought. I never thought I was going to have
33:34
Speaker 13: to shoot him. I thought he was going to give up,
33:40
Speaker 13: and he didn't.
33:44
Speaker 1: There was some confusion as to how far away the
33:46
Speaker 1: deputy was standing from Casey on a state's place when
33:50
Speaker 1: they looked at each other, As Adjason testified, at first,
33:54
Speaker 1: he estimated it was maybe two houses away. Later he
33:57
Speaker 1: said it could have been closer to six house links
34:00
Speaker 1: between them. Prosecutors also grilled Adjason over the alternative steps
34:05
Speaker 1: that he could have taken to identify himself, particularly given
34:08
Speaker 1: the fact that CJ was found with air pods in
34:11
Speaker 1: his ears when he died. Was it possible that he
34:14
Speaker 1: was unaware that the deputy was there and yelling commands
34:18
Speaker 1: at him.
34:19
Speaker 11: Another conclusion, But he didn't hear you, and that's why
34:25
Speaker 11: he did.
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Speaker 13: Fur No, catcher, you're asking me in this case, not
34:31
Speaker 13: in this case.
34:32
Speaker 11: No, sir, there's not two conclusions you can draw on this.
34:36
Speaker 12: For him not to turn around.
34:37
Speaker 13: No, because I know he knew I was there.
34:41
Speaker 3: If you're aware he got in his court room that
34:45
Speaker 3: he had air pods in correct, I never saw Okay,
34:50
Speaker 3: I didn't ask you that you're aware that he had
34:53
Speaker 3: air pods?
34:53
Speaker 12: In correct?
34:55
Speaker 13: Yes, Well, I'm sorry.
34:59
Speaker 12: You want to identify who you are?
35:00
Speaker 11: Once't you put your lights on?
35:03
Speaker 12: No, I wouldn't put your lights on. You're a law
35:06
Speaker 12: enforcement officer. You don't use your lights.
35:08
Speaker 13: He turned and he ran away from me. I jumped
35:11
Speaker 13: in my truck and I followed after him to check
35:13
Speaker 13: upus the other.
35:13
Speaker 12: Tools that you got.
35:14
Speaker 11: How about a siren? Did you turn the siren on.
35:19
Speaker 13: Mister me No, I did not turn my siren on.
35:21
Speaker 11: That would certainly identify you.
35:23
Speaker 13: Would I don't know how I could identify myself any
35:28
Speaker 13: better than what I had done. It happened so fast
35:31
Speaker 13: that I responded as fast as I could to the
35:33
Speaker 13: actions that he was doing.
35:35
Speaker 1: That CJ parked improperly with suspicious to Deputy Mead. Family
35:40
Speaker 1: members testified that due to a fire hydrant on the
35:43
Speaker 1: other side of the street, they had parked on the
35:45
Speaker 1: opposite side for years without issue. Similarly, the front door
35:50
Speaker 1: was slightly broken, so they never used it, preferring the
35:54
Speaker 1: side entrance as their regular way in and out of
35:56
Speaker 1: the house. Of course, there was no way that W. D.
36:00
Speaker 1: Mead could have known these facts.
36:03
Speaker 13: He had actually park in front of it, or not
36:05
Speaker 13: in front of it, But Caddy Corner took it the
36:07
Speaker 13: wrong way, which gave me I don't understand why he
36:10
Speaker 13: parked the wrong way, and then he bypassed the entire
36:13
Speaker 13: front of the house. And then cut in an open gate. Okay, well,
36:18
Speaker 13: that made me believe that this wasn't his.
36:20
Speaker 14: Place at all.
36:26
Speaker 1: After both the state and the defense closed their case,
36:30
Speaker 1: the trial had an unusual development. The prosecution asked to
36:34
Speaker 1: call upon a newly discovered surprise witness. This witness, a
36:40
Speaker 1: man named Christopher Corn worked in heating and cooling. He
36:44
Speaker 1: was watching the coverage of the trial at home on
36:46
Speaker 1: the local news when he realized that the video of
36:49
Speaker 1: the intersection showed his van. On December fourth, the HVAC
36:54
Speaker 1: employee was on his lunch break between jobs. He recalled
36:57
Speaker 1: the events of the day clearly. In the video of
37:01
Speaker 1: the US Marshall's trucks approaching the intersection. A white work
37:05
Speaker 1: van drives past a state's place where Officer Ryan Rosser
37:08
Speaker 1: waited to pull out. The van then takes a position
37:12
Speaker 1: behind Jason Meads truck when they reached the red light.
37:15
Speaker 1: Rosser then makes his turn and is directly behind Christopher
37:19
Speaker 1: in the white van. Christopher's position in that left turning lane,
37:23
Speaker 1: as well as the height of his van, gave him
37:25
Speaker 1: a view directly into CJ's car at the exact time
37:29
Speaker 1: that the deputy alleged that he was aiming his gun
37:32
Speaker 1: around at traffic. Christopher took the stand for the prosecution.
37:38
Speaker 1: He testified that the only thing that concerned him about
37:41
Speaker 1: passing Casey Goodson on the road that day was his driving.
37:45
Speaker 1: He did not see a gun.
37:48
Speaker 8: So I was sitting at the intersection of Carl and Ferris.
37:53
Speaker 8: I noticed a car come around the corner and the
37:55
Speaker 8: person was driving a little erratic. What appeared to be
37:59
Speaker 8: dancing in his car and singing with music. I just
38:04
Speaker 8: noticed a driver moving around pretty erratic, and at one
38:08
Speaker 8: point in time he took both hands off the wheel
38:10
Speaker 8: and was dancing and moving, and it looked like he
38:14
Speaker 8: was going to come into my vehicle.
38:17
Speaker 1: How could you see his hands?
38:19
Speaker 8: Pretty good?
38:20
Speaker 1: Could you see anything in his hands at all?
38:22
Speaker 8: No, nothing at all? Was anything about this car and
38:27
Speaker 8: the individual driving the car?
38:28
Speaker 1: Did anything about that cause you concern?
38:32
Speaker 5: Yes?
38:32
Speaker 8: I thought he was driving recklessly.
38:35
Speaker 12: Were there any other vehicles that caught your attention at
38:37
Speaker 12: the intersection?
38:38
Speaker 8: There was a pickup truck in front of me when
38:42
Speaker 8: I noticed, you know, after the car had passed and
38:44
Speaker 8: made its way down the road, he started making a
38:48
Speaker 8: U turn in the intersection.
38:51
Speaker 1: Christopher's testimony was called into question by the defense attorneys.
38:55
Speaker 1: Not only had he waited years to come forward, but
38:58
Speaker 1: he had also watched portions of the trial on the
39:01
Speaker 1: news before testifying, something that could influence his recollection of
39:05
Speaker 1: the day. It turns out that Christopher had also not
39:09
Speaker 1: reached out to the special prosecutors or law enforcement in
39:13
Speaker 1: an appropriate, unbiased way. He at first attempted to contact
39:18
Speaker 1: Tamla Paine, directly friending her on Facebook and sending a
39:22
Speaker 1: private message. When she did not respond, he contacted Sean Walton,
39:28
Speaker 1: their family attorney. Christopher testified that neither responded to him,
39:33
Speaker 1: but that after writing to mister Walton, he heard directly
39:36
Speaker 1: from the special prosecutors. This cannot be verified, however, because
39:41
Speaker 1: only two days after coming forward his name was leaked
39:44
Speaker 1: to the press. Christopher found himself overwhelmed with messages on Facebook,
39:49
Speaker 1: and so he deleted his entire account. What messages were
39:54
Speaker 1: sent or exchanged about his testimony is therefore unclear. To
39:59
Speaker 1: Jason Mead's defense team, these actions were suspicious and worthy
40:03
Speaker 1: of discrediting him as a witness.
40:07
Speaker 16: Well, he was unique because you got an instruction before
40:11
Speaker 16: he testified that doesn't normally happen. There's a separational witnesses.
40:16
Speaker 16: You got an instruction because he's watched the trial.
40:18
Speaker 12: He's watched sel Stedberg, he's watched our client, he's watched
40:21
Speaker 12: the news, he's watched everything. It would be like taking
40:23
Speaker 12: someone in the back of the courtroom and plucking them
40:25
Speaker 12: and say, hey, what'd you see that day? That's how
40:28
Speaker 12: desperate they are.
40:29
Speaker 14: That's their witness someone with Jason meets training, someone who's
40:34
Speaker 14: honorable discharged from the Marines, who you.
40:37
Speaker 6: Don't get honorable discharts and Marines. If you delete stuff,
40:39
Speaker 6: you don't get it. You don't get honorable distarts if
40:42
Speaker 6: you lie. But he airs and says it. But their
40:45
Speaker 6: theory is he didn't see it.
40:47
Speaker 12: It's a cover up.
40:49
Speaker 14: Jason Mead puts you inside of his shoes and his
40:52
Speaker 14: testimony lass home. Nothing in the jury instructions will say
40:57
Speaker 14: here to do it. From Casey Goodson's perspect what was
41:00
Speaker 14: his intent?
41:01
Speaker 12: What was this? What was this?
41:03
Speaker 11: There's not a single witness to corroborate the defendant's assertion
41:08
Speaker 11: that Casey pointed a gun at him at the intersection,
41:12
Speaker 11: nor at the house, neither place. It's just his work.
41:20
Speaker 1: The trial went over the estimated time allotted for witness testimony.
41:24
Speaker 1: Lasting eleven full days over three weeks, the jury heard
41:28
Speaker 1: from over twenty witnesses. Three times. After deliberations began, the
41:33
Speaker 1: jury was required to restart after the judge dismissed a
41:37
Speaker 1: juror and replace them with an alternate, in an exceptional
41:41
Speaker 1: move that is rarely necessary. All four alternate jurors were
41:46
Speaker 1: eventually used, as others were dismissed for undisclosed reasons. At
41:51
Speaker 1: one point, the judge declared a mistrial after the jury
41:54
Speaker 1: continued to pose questions that demonstrated confusion over how to
41:59
Speaker 1: apply the law. They queried whether Jason Meade could be
42:02
Speaker 1: justified in using force on one count of murder but
42:05
Speaker 1: not another, which the judge deemed a logical If the
42:10
Speaker 1: deputy was found to be justified in firing his weapon,
42:14
Speaker 1: he must be found not guilty on all charges. After
42:19
Speaker 1: speaking with prosecutors in defense, Judge Young reversed the mistrial
42:23
Speaker 1: only minutes after he declared it and instead ordered the
42:27
Speaker 1: jury to continue deliberations. They did so, but it was
42:32
Speaker 1: hopeless they could not reach an agreement.
42:36
Speaker 17: Minutes later, Judge Young retracted the mistrial, commending the jurors
42:40
Speaker 17: for their hard work, on the case and told them
42:42
Speaker 17: to keep deliberating.
42:43
Speaker 1: Two hours later, jurors.
42:45
Speaker 17: Then came back saying they couldn't agree, at which point
42:48
Speaker 17: the judge invoked the Howard charge, asking them to keep
42:51
Speaker 17: trying to come to a unanimous decision, But fifteen minutes later,
42:55
Speaker 17: the final mistrial was declared due to a hung jury.
42:59
Speaker 1: Journalists the courtroom reported that jurors returned with tears in
43:03
Speaker 1: their eyes, many agonizing over the decision and frustrated that
43:07
Speaker 1: they could not reach a verdict.
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Speaker 5: Jason Me was the only person that accused Casey of
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Speaker 5: rondoing he took his life and here we are. But
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Speaker 5: again I stressed that he was not acquitted. There were
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Speaker 5: jurors back there that did not believe him, and we're
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Speaker 5: not sure you know why it was hung. It could
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Speaker 5: be that they didn't think that there was enough to convict.
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Speaker 5: But I don't think anybody here in this courthouse, aside
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Speaker 5: from Jason Me, thinks that he's in this. I think
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Speaker 5: the prosecutor a great job showing that Jason me state
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Speaker 5: of mind was that he throws the first punch, he
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Speaker 5: hunts people, and that he is justified in doing that,
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Speaker 5: that he has a righteous release. You know when he does,
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Speaker 5: you know, commit an active force while he is on
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Speaker 5: the job. So I'm thankful that he's no longer a
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Speaker 5: SHARE's deputy, but he needs to be behind bars.
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Speaker 1: Jason did not make a statement following the mistrial. His
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Speaker 1: attorney stated only that he was extremely appreciative of the
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Speaker 1: hard work done by the jury, who did exactly what
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Speaker 1: was required of them. They had tried their best. The
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Speaker 1: civil lawsuit is still pending and will now move forward.
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Speaker 1: The special prosecutors have also stated their intention to retry
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Speaker 1: the deputy for murder. As of publication, the retrial is
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Speaker 1: set to begin on October thirty first, twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Jury selection and testimony is scheduled to start November fourth.
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Speaker 1: And that was the tragic case of Casey Goodson, Junior
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Speaker 1: in Deputy Jason Meade. Thanks for watching, and a special
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Speaker 1: thanks to our newest Lounge members Hitchcock Hitchcock, Karen Cook,
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Speaker 1: and Jason Coward. I'm Kevin. This is just thought Lounge
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Speaker 1: and I'll see in the next one.
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Speaker 10: Please tell me I can hit the crist repeat. Gotta
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Speaker 10: take my time because these crimes get deep, but these
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Speaker 10: stories can't hid find my seat Kevin, go ahead and
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Speaker 10: settle in. Gotta be selective, doing all the research, keeping
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Speaker 10: it objective, always being effective. Can say he got a neck.
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Speaker 12: Pick it of the litter.
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Speaker 10: You see how Newton got his back. Yeah, the content
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Speaker 10: that you need. This could be a new sign. Talking
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Speaker 10: in it had like love that it's it feels like
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Speaker 10: the whole world is going