Internal charges against Cleveland police officers detail chaos of 2012 shooting - cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Thirteen Cleveland officers face internal charges after they broke several department rules during a deadly high-speed chase in 2012 that ended with 137 rounds of police gunfire, according to department letters released Thursday. The officers are accused of joining a pursuit and crossing city limits without a supervisor's permission, leaving their police cruisers and shooting into a 1979 Chevrolet Malibu with disregard for the safety of other officers at the scene that... Officer Scott Sistek fired one-handed gunshots into the Malibu's windshield as he ran backwards. Officer Michael Farley opened fire as he ran for cover, despite telling internal investigators that he initially held his fire because other police officers were in the way. Several officers said their view of the Malibu and other officers were restricted, but they fired into the car anyway. Police never recovered a gun from Russell's Malibu, and investigators with the Ohio Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigations did not find conclusive evidence that the two ever had a gun. The chase began when officers reported hearing shots fired from Russell's Malibu outside police headquarters in the Cuyahoga County Justice Center. Source: www.cleveland.com
