Appalling Stories From The DOJ's Investigation Of The CLeveland Police Department

To Serve And Protect White People While using inordinate violence on black and brown people. Appalling stories from the DOJ’s investigation of the Cleveland Police Department

The Department of Justice released a scathing investigation of the Cleveland Police Department that found that officers there have engaged in a pattern of excessive and deadly force against residents — using guns, tasers, chemical spray and fists — in violation of their rights. Investigators uncovered officers firing their guns at people who […] A federal report found the department engaged in systematic brutality. Concluding an investigation that began last year, the Justice Department and the city will appoint an independent monitor to oversee changes. Holder made the announcement 16 days after an officer there shot and killed a 12-year-old boy who was playing with a toy gun. Jerry Markon and Sari Horwitz in The Washington Post. Primary source: The report. Police are too quick to pull the trigger, the report found. Officers discharged their weapons in all kinds of situations -- aiming at moving cars, firing at civilians as they were being handcuffed, shooting a hostage and pulling the trigger on accident. Sara Dorn in The Plain Dealer. Protests of the Eric Garner decision continued across the country.  "The protests drew crowds in New York, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Washington. Many chanted...: “I can’t breathe.” In some places, they grew disruptive, snarled traffic on major arteries and lay down in the streets. "Ashley Southall in The New York Times.