Demand for change: What you need to know Friday

Calls on Thursday night were growing for state Sen. Steve Huffman, R-Tipp City, to resign for his comments about blacks in relation to COVID-19.

Also, the Columbus Dispatch reported that Huffman, who had ties with Premier Health severed, has been fired by TeamHealth, a Tennessee company that provides outsourced physicians.

A demonstration is planned Friday afternoon in Englewood and police have alerted drivers to the following road closures as a result of the planned event:

• Union Blvd between West Wenger Road and West National Road will be closed at 4:45 p.m. to all traffic for an undetermined amount of time.
• West National Road between Ohio 48 and Union Blvd. will be closed to all traffic at 5:30 p.m. for an undetermined amount of time.

Things you need to know today, Friday, about the demand for change:

• Rep. Plummer introduces police reform legislation in Ohio General Assembly
• A pastor says he witnesses a miracle in Oakwood with Black Lives Matter rally
• Black Lives Matter mural painted on street in Seattle
• Speaker Pelosi wants 11 Confederate statues removed from Capitol

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