Posted on 08/06/2013 7:37:04 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Cleveland police officials said Friday they're disciplining 75 of officers for their involvement in a police chase that ended in the shooting deaths of an unarmed man and woman, The Plain Dealer reports.
The pair were shot at 137 times while in their car, parked in a middle school parking lot. No officers were injured in what police called a "full blown-out" firefight.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine told reporters in February that "there is nothing normal about this case. ... This is a tragedy."
In November, about 60 police vehicles pursued the two suspects in a 25-minute chase spanning three cities. One suspect, 30-year-old Malissa Williams, was shot 24 times, and the other, 43-year-old Timothy Russell, was shot 23 times.
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But after the chase ended in a gunfight near Heritage Middle School, police checked the car and realized neither Williams nor Russell was armed.
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LOL, yeah, OK.
Just sitting in their car, minding their own business...
Go ahead and wave your outrage banner for these two losers. I have better things to do.
I'm sure Eric Holder would like to hear from you.
Relax in your trailerpark and be the badass, there are some of us that work for a living.
There you go, proving my words. These things should not be death penalty issues!!!
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Exactly, you get it.
When it happens the next time, ask to speak with the Watch Commander. He’s in charge of where officers are assigned during the shift. Most likely he’ll arrange to meet face to face with you. Tell him you are going to file a written complaint against each and every officer who stops you to “check you out” from now on.
What this does is it seriously impedes any promotions or awards that the officer may be about to gain. Cops hate it when you put everything on paper and it has to be reviewed by the civilian boards.
What this will do, I hope, is result in your name, face, automobile and address becoming known to every officer on your side of town. They will literally avoid contact with you.
You hope. LOL I want to believe that too! But I’m afraid they’d be out to getcha instead. And all too often these days, the cops being out to getcha means you wind up daid.
I live in a small town of 2850 people & we all interact with our police because we all know each other. When I go into larger towns I do as you do, I stay away from them. I have never had any problems but then again I don’t cause any trouble.
“When I go into larger towns I do as you do, I stay away from them.”
Good plan! I envy you being in a small enough town that you have that personal connection with those who serve you. That’s how it should be, but it’s getting to be more rare with each passing day. Law enforcement is just another facet of government that has become “unionized” and the “work rules” are there simply for the benefit of the workers now. That coupled with so many more “laws” that you have no idea in most cases which one you have “transgressed.” I am particularly wary of all of this paramilitary stuff with SWAT teams and such. They are set up to abuse the citizens, and I personally think these guys love it.
Shouldn’t run. Cops never hurt, or kill unarmed civilians. Or their little dogs. People have nothing to fear the jackbooted thugs ever.’ All that matters is the cops went home safe. Probably with a smile on their faces. Its not like cops to school old people, children, people having medical emergencies, ...
Evading the cops is not a death penalty crime in this fantasy world of yours, is it?
Nothing? Most (sane) people would agree that running from the cops just doesn't end well.Christ! Most people would also agree that trying to run the kill zone or whatever it was called between East and West Germany was unlikely to end well. I suppose those bourgeois little pigdogs gunned down on the border deserved it!
I agree with you. I read the report at the link.
There are multiple instances in the report on the order of ‘afraid for my life’, ‘heard what I thought was a gunshot’, ‘saw the perps brandish something I believed was a weapon in the dark’, and other boilerplate designed to raise reasonable doubt against a murder charge.
One of the officers fired AT LEAST 49 times, just based on the number of shells they could recover, assuming they got them all.
They two who died weren’t Einstein and Mother Theresa, but one had 23 gunshots in him, and the woman had 24.
They were very, very dead. Also, no testimony at all as to what the perps might have said, like, “We are unarmed!”, or “Don’t shoot!” That was very missing.
Cleveland’s got a problem with its police force.
Just WOW!
PING!
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