CLEVELAND, Ohio Cleveland officials on Thursday fired a police officer for missing work for jury duty he never served. Officer John Kazimer, a 20-year veteran officer, didn’t show up to work on Oct. 29 and told a supervisor he had jury duty in Lorain County Common Pleas Court, according to his letter of discipline from Cleveland Safety Director Karrie Howard. Kazimer lied to supervisors in .
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CLEVELAND, Ohio More than a dozen people filed a lawsuit Friday accusing Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and several police officers and sheriff’s deputies of excessive force and unlawfully arresting and detaining them during last year’s George Floyd protests in downtown Cleveland. One woman said police officers and jail staff illegally held her in the Cuyahoga County Jail for six days without .