Stand Up For Ohio made the announcement today in a press release. Author: Hope Sloop Updated: 9:52 PM EDT April 20, 2021
CLEVELAND
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On Tuesday, Stand Up For Ohio, along with Black Lives Matter Cleveland, NAACP Cleveland, Showing Up For Racial Justice-NEO, and the ACLU of Ohio, launched a new campaign looking to require fair and independent investigations into police misconduct in Cleveland.
“In Cleveland, there have been over 91 families who have been impacted by state-sanctioned police violence, and not one of those officers have been charged. That means over 91 times, a police officer has been allowed to get away with police misconduct and oftentimes murder. We must implement a permanent structure of police accountability and oversight,” said LaTonya Goldsby, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Cleveland.
Citizens for a Safer Cleveland coalition aims to address police accountability
Updated Apr 20, 2021;
Posted Apr 20, 2021
Citizens for a Safer Cleveland announced its campaign Tuesday for a ballot initiative that strives to reform police accountability and oversight.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Social advocacy groups on Tuesday launched a campaign for a ballot initiative to ensure fair and independent investigations of police misconduct in Cleveland.
Black Lives Matter Cleveland, NAACP Cleveland, ACLU Ohio, Stand Up For Ohio and Showing Up For Racial Justice Northeast Ohio formed the Citizens for a Safer Cleveland coalition, which aims to reform accountability and police oversight, said Rachael Collyer, an organizer for Stand Up for Ohio.
Tamir Rice
The Tamir Rice case is back in the news because attorney’s for the family have requested the Justice Dept. to re-open the investigation to the Cleveland police shooting that killed the youngster in 2014.
On Friday (04-16-21) an eight-page letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland urging him to allow prosecutors to convene a grand jury. The letter says that the Justice Department under then-President Obama opened an investigation into the matter. But years later, then-President Trump’s political appointees stifled it.
“Career attorneys at DOJ sought twice to convene a grand jury in this case, only to be quashed by their political superiors,” says the letter signed by Jonathan Abady, Earl Ward and Zoe Salzman, New York attorneys who represent the family with other lawyers, including Subodh Chandra in Cleveland.