Cleveland Suspends 63 Cops Over Massive, Deadly Chase

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(NEWSER) – Cleveland has suspended a sizable chunk of its police department over a car chase last year that left two unarmed suspects riddled with bullets after a pursuit involving 63 cars.( ) The city's chief of police says 63 of the 104 officers involved will be suspended for up to 10 days for "administrative charges ranging from excessive speed to insubordination," the Plain Dealer reports. One police supervisor has already been fired, two demoted, and nine suspended over the incident, and the department has yet to deal with the 13 officers who fired 137 shots into the car, killing the driver and his passenger.

The chase began on November 29 last year when police thought they heard a gunshot from the car of Timothy Russell, 43. He refused to stop for officers and was shot dead along with Malissa Williams, 30, after a chaotic 23-minute chase. No weapons were found in the vehicle and investigators now believe the "gunshot" police heard was the sound of Russell's 1979 Chevy backfiring, reports Reuters. Cleveland's mayor says his department is "not throwing officers under the bus for political reasons and we're not covering anything up. " Prosecutors haven't decided whether to charge the 13 officers involved in the shooting.

http://www.newser.com/story/175969/cleveland-suspends-63-cops-over-deadly-chase.html

 

[MVike28]

B-b-b-ut Murica isn't a police state!!!!

 

[Vandelay]

Something still aint adding up...

 

[NSSVO]

Woa there, the mid-west is dangerous, don't go dere.

 

[acri1]

Pigs

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

 

[Mr. Negative]

cops watched The Blues Brothers the night before, decided to stop the shyt before it gout TOO out of hand.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

 

[unit321]

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/10/cleveland_police_to_suspend_63.html

Happened on November 29, 2012.
I don't know how or why more than 60 cops were involved. Usually, a police force is split up into street cops and investigators. Then the street cops (patrol units) is divided into two groups. One group will be on duty while the other group will be off. Then, for each group, you split that into three shift, day, evening, and midnight. This is how you provide 24/7 coverage. Usually, there will be a shift overlap at certain times of the day. Day and evening will overlap, evening and midnight will overlap and midnight and day will overlap. Furthermore, each shift is split up into smaller groups to cover all the beats or zones in the city's jurisdiction.
It's like a ton of cops just swarmed in on this chase.
There's an SOP for car chases to limit the number of vehicles involved in a vehicle chase for various reasons. If you've seen car chases in LA on the TV, you notice there aren't a lot of cars following the one car. The LAPD are following SOP.

This is an important part of the case though... "officers opened fired after Russell attempted to ram police with his vehicle, officials said." ... so using deadly force against deadly force is warranted. Why didn't Russell just pull over?

 

[TheReal_Broke_88m3_13]

This is an important part of the case though... "officers opened fired after Russell attempted to ram police with his vehicle, officials said." ... so using deadly force against deadly force is warranted. Why didn't Russell just pull over?

if this true, then this is a non-story tbh. It's well known fact when that using a vehicle as a weapon(backing up / ramming into ) a cop is grounds for getting lit up....

But all cops have dashcams right? This defense will only work if we can see the car backing up into the cops. Otherwise prosecute these cops

 

[unit321]

if this true, then this is a non-story tbh. It's well known fact when that using a vehicle as a weapon(backing up / ramming into ) a cop is grounds for getting lit up....

But all cops have dashcams right? This defense will only work if we can see the car backing up into the cops. Otherwise prosecute these cops

Not all cops have dash cams. One dash cam isn't expensive, but to install one cam in every cop car for a police department is expensive. Just watch COPS and see how many departments don't have a dash cam.
Backing up? This car was being pursued. It's most likely that Russell drove into one that was ahead of him, i.e. cop car ahead of the pursuit that was off to the side of the road.

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/10/cleveland_police_to_suspend_63.html


This is an important part of the case though... "officers opened fired after Russell attempted to ram police with his vehicle, officials said." ... so using deadly force against deadly force is warranted. Why didn't Russell just pull over?

The cops probably said that to cover their asses. Out of all the times I've been arrested there has never been a 100% honest police report.

 

[unit321]

The cops probably said that to cover their asses. Out of all the times I've been arrested there has never been a 100% honest police report.

Well, I wouldn't be surprised if the car Russell was driving had damage that proved he rammed into a police vehicle, and the police vehicle that got hit had damages that showed it was rammed.
The whole notion of hearing the car backfire is moot. All that Russell had to do was pullover when he saw the cops initially light him up. The fact that he led the police on a huge chase decreases the credibility of the driver that he was inclined to cooperate with the law, and increases the probability that he would ram into a police car in an attempt to evade capture.

 

[newarkhiphop]

Don't run from cops

 

[88m3]

cops should clearly not be armed