CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio appeals court has stopped authorities in a predominantly black suburb from prosecuting five white Cleveland police supervisors for failing to stop a chase that ended with two black suspects being killed in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire in November 2012. The appellate court’s ruling puts a case in East Cleveland against the supervisors on hold. The East Cleveland prosecutor last week filed misdemeanor dereliction-of-duty charges against the supervisors that were identical to charges filed in county court in May 2014. Attorneys for the supervisors filed a complaint Wednesday to get the new charges dropped. A hearing scheduled for Friday in East Cleveland Municipal Court has been canceled. The supervisors’ trial in county court is scheduled to begin July 27. East Cleveland…
CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio appeals court has stopped authorities in a predominantly black suburb from prosecuting five white Cleveland police supervisors for failing to stop a chase that ended with two black suspects being killed in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire in November 2012.
The appellate court’s ruling puts a case in East Cleveland against the supervisors on hold. The East Cleveland prosecutor last week filed misdemeanor dereliction-of-duty charges against the supervisors that were identical to charges filed in county court in May 2014. Attorneys for the supervisors filed a complaint Wednesday to get the new charges dropped. A hearing scheduled for Friday in East Cleveland Municipal Court has been canceled. The supervisors’ trial in county court is scheduled to begin July 27.
East Cleveland is 93 percent black.
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Ohio Appeals Court Stops Prosecution Of Cops In Black Suburb
