Fuck it....Time to start a Cleveland Police Department thread. (DOJ report)

[Am_I_Anonymous]

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/cleveland_police_regularly_dra.html#incart_maj-story-1

90% of the findings were on cops patrolling black neighborhoods.....this has GOT to stop.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

serious thread dude. Read the shit.

[Phoenix Dark]

Interesting that the Justice Department is going for the NYPD and Cleveland instead of Michael Brown. Definitely makes sense considering both cases are less toxic. We'll see how things go, I can't say I'm very hopeful.

[Great Rumbler]

More than 100 officers engaged in a high-speed chase in East Cleveland in 2012 that resulted in 137 shots being fired at two unarmed suspects, Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, in a car. The chase ended in a parking lot where officers claimed the suspects were ramming them with their vehicles.

Officers believed the suspects were shooting at them, when the bullets were actually coming from their fellow officers.

 

[seagrams hotsauce]

I seem to remember seeing video of that when it happened, but I can't find anything now. I recall it being one of the most surreal, almost comical things I'd ever seen, because the helicopter camera would zoom out as far as it could and the line of cruisers behind the car they were chasing couldn't fit in frame. If anyone can find what I'm talking about, please post it.

[Himu]

http://www.kgw.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/04/police-misconduct-cleveland/19893125/

[benjipwns]

More than 100 officers engaged in a high-speed chase in East Cleveland in 2012 that resulted in 137 shots being fired at two unarmed suspects, Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, in a car. The chase ended in a parking lot where officers claimed the suspects were ramming them with their vehicles.

Officers believed the suspects were shooting at them, when the bullets were actually coming from their fellow officers.

 

Yeah, they need to get studying the Miami police:

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – On December 10 [2013], more than two dozen police officers from across Miami Dade County converged on a blue Volvo that had crashed in the backyard of a townhouse on 65th Street just off 27th Avenue.

As the car was wedged helplessly between a light pole and a tree, nearly a minute passed before officers opened up – firing approximately 50 bullets at the car and the two unarmed men inside the vehicle.

The two men inside the car survived that initial volley of gunfire, according to witnesses, who said they could see the men moving inside the Volvo. Everything went quiet for nearly two minutes before the officers opened up a second time – unleashing an unrelenting torrent of bullets that lasted almost 25 seconds. By the time it was over, the two men inside the car were dead.

CBS4 News has learned a total of 23 officers fired a total of at least 377 rounds.

Bullets were sprayed everywhere. They hit the Volvo, other cars in the lot, fence posts and neighboring businesses. They blasted holes in a townhouse where a 12-year-old dove to the ground for cover and a four month old slept in his crib.

And in fact, as CBS4 News was the first to report, both men inside the Volvo were unarmed at the time police caught up with them. All of the gunfire came from police.

Montesano and Valdes were killed by the dozens of rounds that tore through their bodies.

But Montesano and Valdes weren’t the only ones struck – two Miami Dade police officers were hit as well – caught in the crossfire. One officer was shot in the arm and the second was hit in the arm and grazed in the head. If the bullet had struck just a half an inch to the side the officer would have been killed.

The sound of the gunfire was deafening – literally deafening. Two Miami police officers sustained ruptured ear drums from the cacophony of shots.

EDIT: InfoWars video, but CBS4 clip starts at 0:50, couldn't find it right away elsewhere:

[chronovore]

There should probably be a bad cops thread; bet it'd be busier than either politics thread. 

[Himu]

At this point we should just make a new modern civil rights movement thread

[Am_I_Anonymous]

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/cleveland_mayor_frank_jacksons_1.html#incart_m-rpt-1

This guy needs to resign

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/tamir_rices_mother_wants_offic_1.html#incart_m-rpt-1

You goddamn right girl, he needs to be locked up.