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Cleveland Police Disciplining 75 Cops After An Unarmed Couple Was Shot At 137 Times
Business Insider ^ | 08/02/2013 | Pamela Engel

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: banglist; cleveland; donutwatch; govtabuse; guncontrol; leo; moronwithbadge; rapeofliberty; secondamendment; warriorcops
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To: B4Ranch
Damn black people are always up to no good./s Guilty until proven innocent!

I know this because I get pulled over in my 5 series all the time in my own neighborhood without ever getting a ticket. They tell me that "I just wanted to check you out", guilty until proven innocent!

I guess hard working successful black men are suspects of something until proven otherwise.
121 posted on 08/06/2013 1:58:35 PM PDT by ForAmerica (Texas Conservative Christian *born again believer in Jesus Christ* Black Man!)
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To: ForAmerica
They deserved to be shot that many times while unarmed sitting in their car?

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.

122 posted on 08/06/2013 2:24:29 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: ForAmerica
If cops can't prove PC, you have a civil rights lawsuit to file.

I'm sure Eric Holder would like to hear from you.

123 posted on 08/06/2013 2:25:43 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Relax in your trailerpark and be the badass, there are some of us that work for a living.


124 posted on 08/06/2013 2:31:36 PM PDT by ForAmerica (Texas Conservative Christian *born again believer in Jesus Christ* Black Man!)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

There you go, proving my words. These things should not be death penalty issues!!!


125 posted on 08/06/2013 2:40:48 PM PDT by Shimmer1 ("What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass." John Adams)
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To: Shimmer1

bump


126 posted on 08/06/2013 2:42:01 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: RinaseaofDs
If you hadn’t noticed, the idea here is to criminalize everyone. If everybody is guilty of something, as you no doubt are, then its easy for the police to look at us all as perpetrators, and not citizens.

Exactly, you get it.

127 posted on 08/06/2013 2:57:19 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: ForAmerica

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.


128 posted on 08/06/2013 4:42:38 PM PDT by B4Ranch (AGENDA: Grinding America Down ----- http://vimeo.com/63749370)
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To: B4Ranch

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.


129 posted on 08/06/2013 5:03:21 PM PDT by Shimmer1 ("What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass." John Adams)
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To: vette6387

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.


130 posted on 08/06/2013 5:59:36 PM PDT by certrtwngnut (')
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To: certrtwngnut

“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.


131 posted on 08/06/2013 8:01:16 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Trailerpark Badass

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?


132 posted on 08/06/2013 10:21:11 PM PDT by wgmalabama
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To: Responsibility2nd
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!
133 posted on 08/07/2013 1:20:42 AM PDT by skintight buffoonery
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To: NVDave

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.


134 posted on 08/09/2013 9:07:41 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Responsibility2nd; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Just WOW!

PING!


135 posted on 10/19/2013 9:11:18 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Major brain damage at UMES, but no property damage!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Moral of the story. If you are going to a gunfight, you better bring a gun.

5.56mm

136 posted on 10/19/2013 9:17:22 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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