Cleveland quickly released body camera footage of a clear-cut police shooting. Will that continue?
Updated 4:48 PM;
CLEVELAND, Ohio About 10 hours after the most recent fatal Cleveland police shooting, officials released body camera footage, breaking a longstanding protocol of withholding the videos for months.
The April 15 shooting marked the first time the city released body camera video the same day and the fourth time the videos were released at all in police shootings. Body camera footage of one recent shooting has never been released.
The video showed an officer fatally shooting a suspect as the man raised his gun at an officer.
BLM Cleveland demonstrators express relief, cautious optimism as cop found guilty of murdering George Floyd
Updated Apr 20, 2021;
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Black Lives Matter Cleveland holds rally after guilty verdict for police officer Derek Chauvin, April 20, 2021
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Juanita Rucker said she was praying as she watched a judge in Minnesota read the jury’s verdict in former police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial.
Rucker, a Cleveland resident, knows the pain of losing a loved one like George Floyd’s family. Gathered with dozens of others at Public Square in downtown Cleveland on Tuesday evening, she identified herself as the godmother of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shot and killed by police outside Cudell Recreation Center in 2014. Nobody was criminally charged or convicted in Rice’s death.
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he man shot and killed by a Cleveland Police officer on Thursday was wanted for two crimes, including the murder of a Shaker Heights mother back on September 1st.