Meet the Leftist DOJ Lawyers Suing the Cleveland Police Department

PJ Media ^ | May 27, 2015 | J. Christian Adams

[WayneS]

The City of Cleveland, and the State of Ohio, should have told the feds to cram it up their ample ass.

[SandRat]

A gathering of A**Hole Idiots.

[fwdude]

Soon to come to a department near you.

[NormsRevenge]

Justice is a sham these days..

PRay a good Judge or two steps forward and stomps on the idiocy of the Left.

THis makes a mockery of the department.

Who would want to serve the public when it is so obviously stupid when it comes to voting.

Its ‘leadership’ reveals itself across the land.

[jazusamo]

Absolutely.

[jazusamo]

Yep, Cleveland is bowing to the leftist DOJ and 0bama’s plan to federalize police nationwide.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Who needs legislatures these days? There is always a way around them.

[SharpRightTurn]

“the radical backgrounds of the Justice Department lawyers hired by the Obama administration’s Civil Rights Division”

One of the first orders of business for the next president, after closing the borders and starting a sweep for illegal aliens, should be to close the Civil Rights Division of the Dept. of Injustice. It’s done enough damage to the country already.

[gdani]

Some will say that the Cleveland police department has a pattern or practice of excessive force. After all, a Justice Department report said so!

I don't need Obama's DOJ to tell me that. The Cleveland PD has been a mess for decades.

[Sherman Logan]

The agreement imposes a ten-member “community police commission” who will watch over the police, only three of whom have any law enforcement perspective. The remaining seven are sure to include individuals either actively involved in the racialist anti-police efforts or one degree of separation from the same.

Mixed feelings about this. The problem is that any reasonable person can recognize that the police investigating themselves is a huge problem, as it is for any organization. Much more so for one with a great feeling, appropriately enough, of loyalty to each other.

Cops should be held accountable without being scapegoated. Not sure how to accomplish that.

[JJ_Folderol]

Obviously the police aren’t hiring enough convicted felons of color to be representative of the areas they police, so therefore it’s a matter of racial bias that only the government can fix.

[SpeakerToAnimals]

Worst of all, Cleveland didn’t even make the Justice Department prove their case.

When the officer empties three magazines, the third while standing on the hood, after over 100 rounds from other cops, a trial would have hung the Cleveland PD.

The mythical good cops best start policing their own.

[circlecity]

"Worst of all, Cleveland didn’t even make the Justice Department prove their case. They just rolled over and died."

Lots of times liberal state politicians/bureaucrats invite the Justice Dept. to sue them for the sole purpose of them agreeing to a horrible settlement so as to enhance federal power over the state. This happens most often in a civil rights context. It's how liberals do things.

[matt04]

How long before Clevleand PD officers sprop being proactive and only respond to calls, similar to Baltimore?

[jazusamo]

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[Parley Baer]

“How long before Clevleand PD officers sprop being proactive and only respond to calls, similar to Baltimore?”

Exactly. I wonder how far they have to go to catch up with Baltimore? Baltimore is not to far behind Chicago for top honors.

[scooby321]

The 129-page order, which details the misbehavior of the Louisiana DOJ lawyers and the Civil Rights Division’s Dobinski, is appalling reading. And it isn’t just that Dobinski was a high-level Justice Department lawyer who was posting anonymous blogs about the trial. She also encouraged other anonymous bloggers, who “repeatedly posted vigorous pro-prosecution statements strongly condemning the defendants, their witnesses, and their entire defense.”

Trying to figure out what the prosecutors had done sent the court “on a legal odyssey unlike any other.” But that legal odyssey led the judge on September 17 to grant a new trial to the New Orleans police officers. It is the first time, according to Judge Engelhardt, that federal “prosecutors acting with anonymity used social media to circumvent ethical obligations, professional responsibilities, and even to commit violations of the Code of Federal Regulations.”

[HiTech RedNeck]

Which can often make them worse than they were.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Poxes have spread over many houses today. They wished them on themselves.