police are saying were multiple arrests. demonstrators filling the street chanting no justice, no peace after a judge acquitted a police officer in the shooting deaths of two unarmed people, timothy russell and melissa williams died in a hail of gunfire following a high speed police chase. they say brelo climbed on the hood and fired shots through their windshield. downtown restaurants closed after one diner was injured when some sort of object went through its window during protests. you can see there, there is a show of support for police in cleveland this morning. we want to bring in mala davis, an organizer with the ohio student organization and an
dereliction of duty as a result of this case, and was this the most important thing to you or will you be watching that? i will be watching. i have been involved, i have read all the depositions and i went through the report, and i have combed through this information. that s what has been so upsetting to me. when the verdict came out, i was just totally shocked about the fact that nothing was done. i had expected that officer brelo would not be charged for manslaughter, but i thought that something would, you know, take place. there was this testimony, and the evidence showed there was a support that coercion existed and the truth was not being told by the officers, yet nothing was done. nothing was done about that. i mean, there was text messages
the department of justice came out with a scathing report about the training and discipline of officers in the cleveland police department. they said this i think it s relevant here their investigation revealed troubling practices and a problematic view what constitutes holding officers accountable. are these officers saying anything about their fellow officer, michael briely who was acquitted yesterday? the lawsuit blames brelo, says the state attorney general came out and cleaved these nine officers and others when it decided to go after brelo for the shooting. what is interesting, the jim yesterday in his acquittal said he could not determine that it was brelo s shots that actually bullets that killed that couple. that could play a role in how the discrimination case moves forward because the judge ruled [ inaudible ] does not clear whose bullets actually whose shots fired
yet, they simply are undertaking a review of the factual circumstances and the transcrip transcripts. in the event they decide to move forward you have to say it is a willful right. what right? the right not to have excessive force used against you and you have to establish that the person, the participant, the actor, if this case, brelo, acted with ill will, with spite and with malice. if they establish that you will see a civil rights prosecution moving forward in the event they feel the transcript and record does not establish that there should be no such prosecution, joe. thanks to all three of you. thank you. you re welcome. for days, isis fighters have been making major advances in iraq. and now security forces have launched a counterattack against the terror group but can they keep isis away from that key base, the one that is housing some u.s. military advisers? breaking news this morning. flash flooding has already killed a firefighter.
in the case, brelo, firing 15 rounds from the hood of the car into the victims, and the judge in this case ultimately deciding sorry, i was waiting for the press conference to start there, and ultimately deciding that brelo had a reasonable perception of danger when he did that and he was ultimately found not guilty of voluntary manslaughter as well as felonious assault. jim? erin this is not the only case that people in cleveland are following closely when it comes to allegations of police brutality, and police going beyond what is the lawful exercise of their duties and there is the case of this young boy that really captured the nation s attention, and i suppose in looking at this case that was just decided in the last couple of days i suppose people on the streets there