Justice Department finds Cleveland police are reckless and poorly trained
Cleveland police officers routinely engage in "unreasonable and unnecessary use of force," and they are poorly trained and supervised, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
Announced by Attorney General Eric Holder, the report is the culmination of a two-year civil rights review launched after Cleveland police killed two unarmed black men in a hail of 137 bullets in 2012. The report found that officers often "accidentally shot someone either because they fired their guns accidentally or because they shot the wrong person," and too often used "unnecessary, excessive, or retaliatory" non-lethal force.
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