Posted on 03/09/2023 3:55:44 AM PST by EBH
Eleven more current and former East Cleveland Police officers have been indicted for committing crimes, including beating, kicking and violently assaulting members of the very community they were sworn to serve and protect.
The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office and the Cleveland Division of the FBI held a news conference Wednesday afternoon to announce public corruption and civil rights violation indictments against 11 current and former East Cleveland police officers.
(Multiple incidents described)
...Seven of the officers are newly indicted. Four of them had been previously indicted on other charges. As of Wednesday, there have been 16 current or former East Cleveland police officers indicted in the last six-and-a-half months.
“Make no mistake, there has been a cancer growing in the East Cleveland Police Department," O'Malley said. "We are doing our best to remove every tentacle of that cancer so that this department can rebuild and grow, to put itself in a position to hire officers who enforce the law as well as follow the law. I want to say this is a sad day for all of law enforcement.”
(Excerpt) Read more at news5cleveland.com ...
Here we go again
East Cleveland has been a corrupt mess as long as I can remember.
Decades long corruption there. I recall my father telling me to not drive in E. Cle. when I got my drivers license. That was at least 40 years ago.
Boot-licking FReepers hardest hit.
Got one for ya.
My childhood home town.
Likewise.
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