PWB Police Without Borders 4th Quarter 2016 " More on the Belt"

policewithoutorders.com 4 th quarter <strong>2016</strong>
citing the law that bars an officer
from shooting a fleeing suspect in
the back.
But at trial, jurors would go on to
acquit Robertson, believing his
account that he was forced to fire
the final, fatal shots because the
suspect turned back during the
chase, attacked him and grabbed for
his gun a second time. Robertson
would keep his job at the sheriff’s
department and be put in charge of
training deputies in firearms and
use of force.
INTERVIEW VIDEO
Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo
answers questions about the shooting.
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In Cleveland, Officer Michael Brelo,
who is white, was indicted for
killing a pair of black suspects after
a grand jury reviewed a wide range
of evidence, including nearly two
dozen video recordings from
dashboard cameras, traffic cameras
and surveillance cameras mounted
at businesses and a school.
The deadly encounter began when
the pair, Timothy Russell, 43, and
Malissa Williams, 30, drove past
the Cleveland police headquarters
on a November night in 2012 and
their Chevy Malibu fatefully
backfired. Officers mistook the
sound for gunfire and went in
pursuit. Soon, 62 police vehicles
were chasing the Chevy through city
streets at speeds of up to 110 mph.
The cameras captured the furious
pursuit with officers’ Dodge
Chargers rocketing past repeated
red lights and weaving through
traffic at breakneck speed, tires
squealing as panicked drivers
peeled onto the shoulders.
The suspects, later found to be
under the influence of drugs, came
to a stop in a middle school parking
lot. Eleven officers got out of their
cars and formed a semicircle
around the Chevy, court records
show. Although two police radio
broadcasts had reported that the
pair was unarmed, according to
transmissions compiled by state
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