Cleveland police officer shot Tamir Rice immediately after leaving moving patrol car

Got some real winner cops in this area....

The U.S. Department of Justice issued a scathing report yesterday saying that there is “reasonable cause” to believe the Cleveland Police Department has consistently used excessive force against suspects as well as innocent victims of crimes, following the conclusion of a civil rights investigation that examined hundreds of cases.

2. Officers shot an unarmed kidnapping victim fleeing in his underwear. In an incident from 2013, a police sergeant shot at a victim as he ran from a house where he was being held against his will by armed assailants. When officers arrived, they had information that two armed assailants were holding several people hostage. After officers surrounded the house, a man escaped and ran from the house, wearing only boxer shorts and ran towards officers. When the man didn’t respond to an order to halt by one officer, another fired two shots at him, luckily missing both times.
According to the police sergeant who fired the weapon, he believed that the man had a weapon because he elevated his arm and pointed his hand toward the sergeant. No other officers at the scene reported seeing this, and again, the guy was in his underwear. The report concluded that the sergeant’s use of deadly force was unreasonable and it was only “by fortune that he did not kill the crime victim in this incident.”

6. Officers shot a man with his hands in the air. Cleveland Police spotted a man walking with an open container of beer. When the officers asked the man to stop, he initially refused and walked to a nearby porch and set his beer down. According to the police report, the man walked towards the the police car. One officer yelled “gun” after he claimed he saw a weapon in the man’s waistband. In response, the man raised his hands above his head and told the officers that he had a concealed handgun license. While one officer went behind him to handcuff him, the man lowered his hands to “a bit” below ear level, prompting the other officer to shoot him in the abdomen. The officer who took the shot says that the man reached for his gun, but there are conflicting accounts from the other officer and eight civilian eyewitnesses to the event. Numerous witnesses reported the the man was cooperating with police and lowered his hands in response to an order that he place his hands behind his back.

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Looks like officer emotional trainwreck would fit right in there. It's like a slapstick comedy movie, except people actually die....