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Cleveland police officer acquitted in shooting death of unarmed black couple

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Oh great, in the land of the free, you can be executed for the crime of having a faulty exhaust pipe. It's an insult that these idiots get off scot free.

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“I’m going to tell you all something right now—we have no justice,” Williams’s cousin Renee Robinson told AFP.

Just another reminder that these black protesters have no respect for the criminal justice system or the rule of law. The case was ruled on. You got your 'justice'. It just so happens that their definition of 'justice' is nothing more than a twisted desire for revenge.

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Somehow it his story of events seems incomplete. I honestly don't think this cases outcome would be not guilty with the scenario as this story reads.

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In a nutshell Brelo shot the couple but the couple was fatally wounded and would have died anyway from bullets fired by other officers.therefore by definition this cannot be considered manslaughter. At least that is the presiding judge's logic.

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“The suspicion and hostility between the police and the people won’t be extirpated by a verdict in a single criminal case,” O’Donnell said.

Unquestionably true.

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Sorry, but I do not see how a total of 137 rounds was fired at this couple, with this guy:

climbed onto the hood of a car and fired dozens of rounds at an unarmed black couple in 2012

and there was not crime committed, by anyone. Let's see what happens to the DOJ civil rights investigation.

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Cleveland patrolman Michael Brelo, 31, was one of 13 officers who opened fire on Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams during a police chase on November 29, 2012.

I need this to be clarified. Were Tim and Malissa being chased by the police or were they driving by the PD while the police were chasing a different vehicle? If they were being chased by the police in the first place the fault lies with them regardless. When they say stop you STOP.

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Found not guilty by jury but a judge. Surprise, surprise. The perfect crime in the U.S. White cop killing unarmed African Americans.

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I need this to be clarified. Were Tim and Malissa being chased by the police or were they driving by the PD while the police were chasing a different vehicle? If they were being chased by the police in the first place the fault lies with them regardless. When they say stop you STOP.

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It took 137 bullets, 62 police cars, 22 minutes, 13 shooting officers on a chase through dense Cleveland traffic....although I don't think the police ever learned why this car didn't stop.

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Police officers in the UK and France regularly get off with murder also. Why single out the US for criticism?

The official mafia is untouchable.

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It took 137 bullets, 62 police cars, 22 minutes, 13 shooting officers on a chase through dense Cleveland traffic....although I don't think the police ever learned why this car didn't stop.

So you mean they were actually fleeing the police. While the amount of shots fired is extreme, for a fact I've been learning that a LOT of these shootings happened to these people because they were doing something illegal in the first place. I'm black and I grew up in a high crime neighborhood aka "projects". I've got NO sympathy for fools.

I wised up at 17 when I figured out that if I didn't do anything against the law, I didn't have worry about law enforcement at all. Never had a serious issue with the police since then. Only once in the past 4 years have I been stopped by a police vehicle (which happened to be a black officer). But I complied with his requests and in about 6mins I was on my way back home with no further interference.

I've yet to hear of a single on of these shootings of a black victim by a police officer where the victim was completely innocent of not being involved in something illegal in the first place. And yet the black community seems eager to jump up and protest.

It's becoming increasingly apparent that the days when there were enough intelligent, respectable, and wise people in the black community actually protested for a very important issue like civil rights and real justice for those who were actually completely innocent. But as I said, that generation has grown old and are dying out a little too fast compared to the recent generations that oh so few have the brains to know what a righteous cause to protest for.

If the couple were driving home from the grocery store or work, and nothing else even then if the police attempted to stop them for something as simple as a traffic violation, busted tail light, driving over the speed limit they should have STOPPED.

First thing, people need to comply with the LAW. If one doesn't comply with the law, its oh so easy to see more situations like this.

A protest is necessary in cases where the victim is completely innocent of any wrongdoing that would get them into trouble in the first place. But there have been so precious few of these from what I've been reading in the news lately.

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Professional negligence of the worst kind by the Cleveland police. As if that will whitewash the killing of a couple in a vehicle that posed no danger to anyone and from which not a single shot was fired. One can not help wondering about the verdict if that was justice.

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As if that will whitewash the killing of a couple in a vehicle that posed no danger to anyone and from which not a single shot was fired.

The officers were operating under erroneous information no doubt but on this point alone, fleeing from police and driving erratically with alcohol and cocaine in your system obviously poses a serious danger to the driving public which is why police are trained to use deadly force to stop a suspect from using a vehicle as a weapon. Even so, there was no attempt at a pursuit until the car misfired in front of station headquarters.

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The officers were operating under erroneous information no doubt but on this point alone, fleeing from police and driving erratically with alcohol and cocaine in your system obviously poses a serious danger to the driving public which is why police are trained to use deadly force to stop a suspect from using a vehicle as a weapon. Even so, there was no attempt at a pursuit until the car misfired in front of station headquarters.

This argument is full of holes. This is a case of serious danger posed to citizens by the police. There are other ways to stop a vehicle than by a hail of bullets with intent to kill. Shoot first and then ask questions. Endemic.

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So fact is, the car backfired while they were driving past the PD. Officers thought it was a gunshot and started the pursuit. Even then the couple should have STOPPED when told to, not start speeding up. If they had done that and still got shot full of holes, then the fault would lie completely on the police. 2 wrongs don't make a right.

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The couple have been described as two homeless drug addicts with a long history of mental illness which could explain why they didn't appreciate the seriousness of the situation but in general terms if someone fails to obey the law in a bad enough sense, and doesn’t use common sense and stop immediately, starts fighting and either produces a weapon or goes for mine rather than (going back to obeying the law) following lawful commands when told they are under arrest, they may well get shot for creating a deadly force situation.

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