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    63 Cops Suspended after 137-Bullet Car Chase Ends with Two Unarmed People Dead

    63 Cops Suspended after 137-Bullet Car Chase Ends with Two Unarmed People Dead

    Thursday, October 17, 2013 6:01

    That’s a lot of of numbers for a headline. Here are a few more to complete it.
    Following an unarmed couple fleeing a routine traffic stop in Cleveland back in December 2012, a total of 104 police officers — that’s right, one hundred and four — joined in a 25-minute pursuit where 13 officers fired a total of 137 bullets at the couple and their car. The driver, Timothy Russell, was shot 23 times and the passenger, Malissa Williams, was shot 24 times. While some speculated that the two may have been armed at the very least to garner such a forceful response, no actual weapons were recovered from either person or the vehicle.
    Huffington Post quoted a lawyer representing the Russell family as saying, “You just can’t help but wonder how so many officers were able to shoot so many bullets at these two people in this vehicle,” while a patrolman/criminal justice professor said, “Police officers are authorized to use deadly force to protect themselves and others from great bodily injury or death. I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to stand there and let somebody run me over.”
    Just as in the recent Washington D.C. car chase that reportedly ended in the death of Miriam Carey, no comment was made on why the couple was shot a combined total of 47 times instead of shooting out the car’s tires to render the vehicle unable to pose a threat or continue the chase.
    Now, even though it has been ruled that 75 out of 104 officers broke rules in the chase, only 63 have been suspended (and only for a matter of days each):
    With so many suspensions, the Cleveland Police Department must find a way to carry out the disciplinary actions without compromising the city’s safety. District commanders issued suspension letters to patrol officers on Tuesday, police said. While many suspensions are effective immediately, others will wait to ensure there’s no shortage of officers patrolling the streets.
    (Because everything about these people patrolling the streets just screams “safety”. Let’s continue…)
    “But more importantly, relative to this pursuit, it was the lack of engagement of the supervisors that allowed this pursuit to continue on,” [Cleveland Police Chief Michael] McGrath said at a news conference held by the Cleveland Division of Police.
    McGrath said 12 police supervisors have undergone disciplinary hearings resulting in nine suspensions, two demotions and one termination.
    As for the police officers involved in the chase, their actions were not found serious enough to deem termination, McGrath said. The most severe punishment is up to ten days of suspension, with most ranging between one and six days, totaling up to 178 days of suspension amongst the 63 officers. (source)

    So many officers have been suspended at this point that the Cleveland Police Chief is concerned about the city’s safety. That punishment averages less than three days suspension per officer punished. At least officers are actually being held accountable in this particular story of police abuse of power (again, even if only for a few days).
    If anyone needs any further proof that America has descended into a total police state, this story should be it. The only crime these people allegedly committed was running away unarmed.
    What exactly about that requires 104 officers to hunt them down and put nearly 50 bullets into them? The two had minor priors and sure, they could’ve been hiding something illegal in the vehicle, but even if the entire car was filled with crack from roof to road so that the people sitting in it barely had room to fit in the car, would it have been worth the insane police state response that followed?
    To get a basic idea, the infamous O.J. Simpson police chase, where he fled from police upon suspicion of murdering his wife and her lover 19 years ago only involved about 20 cop cars, and Simpson was armed with a gun.
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    THE MIRIAM CAREY MYSTERY

    Missing! Video of mother killed by police

    WND finds surveillance cameras surrounding area where unarmed woman shot


    Published: 1 day ago
    Garth Kant

    2 Videos at the Page Link:

    WASHINGTON – Nearly three months after an unarmed, young, black single mother with a one-year-old daughter in tow was gunned down in broad daylight by police on a crystal-clear autumn afternoon in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, a veil of official silence remains over the case.

    Miriam Carey

    The Secret Service, the Washington Metro Police and the Capitol Police have withheld virtually all details of the shooting from the family of Miriam Carey, a 34-year-old dental hygienist from Connecticut, and the public. Those details include forensics reports that would show how many times Carey was shot, her cause of death, the position of the body at the time of death, video and photos, multiple eyewitness accounts and an explanation as to why police believed deadly force was necessary to subdue her while she had her infant daughter with her.

    No one has been charged in the case, which has been handed over to a branch of Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department for investigation. The Metro police told WND it is standard procedure for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington to review officer-involved shootings. The attorney for the victim’s family has asked Holder to investigate the incident for possible civil rights violations, but has yet to receive a response.

    A WND investigation shows at least seven security cameras in the immediate vicinity of the fatal police shooting Oct. 3, while a number of police cruiser dash-cams also likely recorded the incident as police surrounded Carey’s car. While cell phone cameras recorded the initial volley of shots fired by police on Carey’s car near the White House, none capturing the fatal shooting near the Capitol have surfaced. Officials won’t even confirm if video of the incident exists.

    Except one.

    WND approached a guard shack, about two blocks from the Capitol dome, where Miriam Carey was shot dead after a chase from a White House checkpoint, and asked a U.S. Capitol police officer on duty a few, simple questions:

    1st Video at the Page Link:

    If a major crime such as a rape or murder were to happen within blocks of the Capitol, would there be video of it?

    “Oh yeah,” he answered, nodding his head vigorously.

    What about the shooting of Miriam Carey, is there video of that?

    “Yes,” he said without hesitation, while adding he had not seen it personally.

    Apparently no one has seen it, other than perhaps a few select members of law enforcement.

    It may be understandable why police would be reluctant to release that video, as it might confirm what legal experts and civil libertarians from both left and right sides of the political spectrum have told WND, that they believe Carey was, in effect, murdered by police.

    Did police murder Carey?

    Renowned journalist and First Amendment expert Nat Hentoff told WND the evidence that officers killed recklessly was so strong, “[T]his is a classic case of police out of control and, therefore, guilty of plain murder.”

    Constitutional law expert John Whitehead, president and founder of the nonprofit civil-liberties organization the Rutherford Institute, agreed, telling WND that from what he’d seen, it looked like murder.


    Press waiting for a police statement. WND photo by Garth Kant.

    Political activist and former Graham County, Ariz., Sheriff Richard Mack called it “sloppy” police work and saw “no justification whatsoever” for the use of deadly force against Carey.

    Dan Bongino, former Secret Service agent and author of the New York Times bestseller “Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away From It All”, was reluctant to second-guess the actions of law enforcement officers in a fast-moving and confusing situation and loath to evaluate their decisions in hindsight.

    But even he felt the situation, involving Secret Service agents at the White House, could have been handled better and doubted that those involved, or their superiors, would dispute that.

    Conflicting reports

    Carey was shot to death by uniformed members of the Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police officers after a police chase that began at the White House and ended at a guard shack at Second Street and Constitution Avenue, two blocks from the Capitol.

    Upon visiting the shooting location, WND easily identified seven security cameras in the immediate vicinity. The U.S. Capitol police sergeant on duty at first gave WND permission to shoot video from across the street. But after giving it further thought, officers asked WND not to published the video, and out of respect for their national security concerns, WND obliged.



    Miriam Carey shooting press conference. WND photo by Garth Kant.

    There are a number of reasons civil libertarians doubt officers needed to shoot Carey to subdue her.

    Contrary to media reports that she tried to ram a White House gate or barrier, the initial police report shows she never tried to ram anything, and merely tried to make a U-turn after having arrived at a checkpoint. Videos of that incident show police pointing guns directly at Carey.

    Also contrary to media reports, there is no mention of Carey striking any officers with her black Nissan Infiniti. Video of that incident also contradicts the early media reports.

    The police report also indicates she did not break any laws, until she suddenly found herself pursued by heavily armed officers shooting at her.

    No one has been able to explain why police did not use non-lethal force in either attempting to stop her car with tire spikes or by shooting out the tires, or why officers did not try to subdue the unarmed woman with pepper spray or a taser, but instead chose to shoot the defenseless 34-year-old mother.

    Carey’s 14-month-old girl Erica was in the backseat as police shot at Carey at least seven times during the chase, as seen in a video recording. It is also not clear if officers removed the child from the car before shooting and killing her mother and, if so, why they didn’t simply arrest Carey.

    2nd Video at the Page Link:

    ‘Routine’ stop mishandled?

    Miriam Carey’s sister, Valerie Carey, is a former New York City police officer, as is the attorney representing her family, Eric Sanders.

    Sanders told WND he and Valerie believe law enforcement officials completely mishandled a simple “suspicious vehicle” car stop.

    He maintained that such car stops are handled professionally by law enforcement officials all over the world every day without incident, including in other cities with so-called “high value targets,” such as the Capitol and White House.



    Sanders told WND he has not been able to obtain the “use of force” policies for the Secret Service or U.S. Capitol Police, pointing out the onus is on agents to justify their use of force.

    The former police officer also noted that under old guidelines, before the Secret Service became a part of the Department of Homeland Security, the discharge of the agents’ weapons would not have been justified, because the guidelines valued life over property.

    WND asked Sanders, based on his experience as a police officer, if he believed police should have shot out the tires on Miriam’s car.

    “No, there should be no shooting at all,” he said. “They had no basis to shoot. You can’t shoot at a fleeing car” due to “a whole host of safety reasons.”

    That’s a violation of police protocols in almost every big city in the country, he said.

    As for fears that Carey may have been carrying an explosive device, Sanders said that was all the more reason not to shoot at her.

    ‘Why are you firing?’

    Drawing upon her professional experience, Valerie Carey made perhaps the key point, that regardless of questions raised about training, protocol and public safety, the officers at the scene ultimately had to decide for themselves how to best act responsibly.

    “As an officer, you have to ask yourself, ‘What is going on here?’

    No one is firing a weapon at you, so why are you firing?”

    Some have speculated that Carey simply came upon an unexpected police stop and panicked when quickly surrounded by heavily armed officers pointing guns at her.

    For whatever reason, Miriam did not stop, and police decided to chase her.

    WND asked Valerie Carey, given her experience as an NYPD sergeant, what she thought went wrong.

    Valerie Carey

    She said her information is limited by not being able to see the dash-cam video, but based on what she’s learned so far, “I believe the authorities allowed the situation to get out of control, and it could have been handled a lot differently.”

    Sanders thinks there may be another factor at play and has asked the Department of Justice to investigate the shooting.

    He has requested a civil rights investigation because, he told WND, “Although we never overtly mentioned it, we believe race was a factor in the police decision to discharge their weapons.”

    Where’s the video?

    The investigation of the shooting has been handled by the Washington Metropolitan Police. When WND asked a spokeswoman when the nearly three-month-long investigation might be complete and the video made public, she said she could not comment on a case under investigation and that all the information had been turned over to the D.C. office of the U.S. attorney’s office.

    The spokeswoman also declined to answer a general question as to whether it was department policy not to release video of an officer-involved shooting while an investigation was underway.



    Near where Miriam Carey was shot.WND photo by Garth Kant.

    WND easily found a half-dozen recent instances in which videos of officer-involved shootings were released while investigations were still underway, by police departments in such major cities as Philadelphia and Las Vegas. The spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., declined to comment on specifics of the Carey investigation and would not confirm the office even has video of the shooting.

    So, WND went searching elsewhere for video.

    Authorities initially feared the incident was an act of terrorism, so it would seem logical that the National Security Agency might have monitored the chase and the shooting with its satellites.

    But an NSA spokesman said it does not have video of the incident: “We are a foreign-intelligence agency.” The NSA advised WND to check with the FBI or DHS.

    An FBI spokeswoman claimed there is no satellite video of the incident, stating, “That did not happen in this case.”

    Also, the bureau would not confirm or deny the existence of dash-cam or security-cam videos of the shooting.

    And a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security declined to comment.


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    Six Cleveland cops indicted for hail of bullets that killed two unarmed car chase suspects

    By Tom Boggioni
    Saturday, May 31, 2014 16:23 EDT


    Topics: Cleveland police officersOfficer Michael Brelopolice officers

    Six Cleveland police officers were indicted on Friday on charges related to a November 2012 car chase that left two suspects dead after officers fired 137 times upon them after their car came to a halt in a schoolyard , according to WSLS10.
    Officer Michael Brelo has been charged with two counts of manslaughter after prosecutors claimed he stood on the hood of the suspects’ car and fired at least 15 shots through the windshield. Five police supervisors were charged with dereliction of duty for failing to control the chase.
    Previously 64 of the 104 officers, including twelve supervisors, involved in the chase were disciplined for violations of department rules. One supervisor was fired and two were demoted.
    Driver Timothy Russell was shot 23 times. Passenger Malissa Williams was shot 24 times. Police officers claimed the suspects fired upon them, however no gun was found on them or in their vehicle.
    Cuyohoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty cited a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling stating police can’t fire upon suspects after a public safety threat has ended.
    “This was now a stop-and-shoot – no longer a chase-and-shoot,” McGinty said. “The law does not allow for a stop-and-shoot.”
    McGinty said other officers on the scene had stopped firing after the chase ended.
    The chase, which lasted 23 minutes and covered twenty miles through Cleveland at speeds of up to 110 mph, involved five dozen cruisers and 104 of the 277 Cleveland officers on duty that evening.
    According to prosecutors, Brelo fired 49 shots. None of the other 12 officers who fired shots were indicted.
    Brelo, who served in Iraq as a Marine, stated he feared for his life and the life of his partner, Officer Cynthia Moore.
    “I’ve never been so afraid in my life,” he told investigators. “I thought my partner and I would be shot and that we were going to be killed.”
    “I was just — even during Iraq, I never fired my weapon,” Brelo added.” I’ve never been so afraid in my life, and I just couldn’t understand why the suspects were still moving and still shooting at us.”
    The five supervisors indicted on misdemeanor dereliction of duty charges were Lt. Paul Wilson, Sgt. Patricia Coleman, Sgt. Randolph Dailey, Sgt. Michael Donegan and Sgt. Jason Edens.
    The police union has defended the officers’ actions and said the driver was trying to ram them.
    Capt. Brian Betley, the head of the Fraternal Order of Police, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that he was disappointed in the grand jury’s findings.
    Watch the video below of Officer Michael Brelo being interviewed by investigators from WKYC:

    Video at the Page Link:

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