article_snippet: Cleveland also claims Cleveland is entitled to all "full and qualified" immunities under state and federal law.
article_snippet: An attorney for the Rice family says the city's response to the lawsuit is indicative of well-documented problems within the Cleveland Police Department.
article_snippet: Their tactics that preceded Tamir death and the subsequent victim blaming are examples of the institutionalized behavior that has beset the Cleveland Police Department.
article_snippet: In December, the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department released the results of a two-year investigation that found Cleveland officers use guns, Tasers, pepper spray and their fists excessively, unnecessarily or in retaliation.
article_snippet: The police force has used unnecessary and unreasonable force at a "significant rate," employing "dangerous tactics" that put the community at risk, a two-year investigation that found Cleveland officers use guns, Tasers, pepper spray and their fists excessively, unnecessarily or in retaliation stated.
article_snippet: a two-year investigation that found Cleveland officers use guns, Tasers, pepper spray and their fists excessively, unnecessarily or in retaliation was also reported in December that Loehmann's previous employer, the Independence Police Department in a Cleveland suburb, had numerous complaints about the officer, including that he was "distracted and weepy" and "emotionally immature" and had demonstrated "a pattern of lack of maturity, indiscretion and not following instructions.
article_snippet: There is nothing written anywhere in the law that says police officers are to be treated differently from any other citizen," Crump said.
article_snippet: We cannot have children playing cops and robbers on a playground and police officers coming and claiming a playground and police officers lives.