Friday, December 05, 2014

White Cops File Suit, Claiming They Faced Harsher Discipline For Deadly Force Because Of Their Race

[From the "Not Clear On The Concept" desk here at Acerbic Politics. - Bozo]
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by Amelia Rosch
Posted on December 1, 2014 at 4:44 pm
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Less than a week after twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by Cleveland police officers who thought Rice's toy gun was real, nine other members of the Cleveland Police Department filed a lawsuit that accuses the department of discriminating against non-African American officers who used deadly force.
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In the suit, the plantiffs claim that the department treated non-African American officers involved in the 2012 shooting of two African Americans "substantially harsher" than African American officers involved in the same incidents. The lawsuit deals with the aftermath of a deadly November 2012 car chase. During the car chase, 13 police officers fired over 130 shots at a Chevrolet Malibu. Both people in the car were shot over 20 times and killed. Neither had a weapon. During an investigation of the car chase, it came out that officers had omitted events in their statements, misidentified the suspects and did not specify that police officers had fired shots. Earlier in November, the city settled a lawsuit over the incident for $3 million.
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