A Black Man’s Fatal Shooting by the Police Exposes Ohio Congregations’ Bitterly-Opposing Interpretations of Faith & Justice - Word&Way

A Black Man’s Fatal Shooting by the Police Exposes Ohio Congregations’ Bitterly-Opposing Interpretations of Faith & Justice

Rare is the law enforcement officer accused of an unjustified shooting whose accusers can point to even a single public statement made by the officer advocating misconduct. But that’s what supporters of Casey Goodson Jr. believe they have in a recorded sermon delivered by the person who fatally shot him, Jason Meade, the Franklin County sheriff’s deputy and Baptist pastor in this no-stoplight town 30 miles west of Columbus.