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Note, this is not a new story, but it is the first time I heard of this one.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/06/police-shoot-137-times-into-car-after-chase-killing-unarmed-couple.html#
The phenomenon is common enough that theres a name for it: High-Speed Pursuit Syndrome. Its the condition police officers sometimes suffer from during a high-speed chase, when, as an ACLU spokesman once put it, they get so angry and pumped up, and the adrenaline rush is such that
you see violence visited on suspects at the end of a pursuit.
Rodney King was a prime example, but it happens all the time, and it rarely makes the national news. Take the Nov. 29 shooting deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams in Cleveland: After leading police on a 25-minute chase through city streets, Russell found himself surrounded in a dead-end in East Cleveland. Police have said that they opened fire when Russell tried to run one of them over. That version may eventually be tested in court, but what is undisputed is that 13 officers unloaded a total of 137 bullets into Russells 1979 Chevy Malibu, killing both him and Williams.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, Williamss uncle, Walter Jackson, said that 24 bullets had been removed from her body and the damage to her face and torso was extensive. Williamss mother, Martha Mae Williams, said, Im not going to let them close her casket
Theyre going to have to look at what the police did to my child.
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stevenleser
(32,886 posts)See http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/oh-cuyahoga/civil-lawsuit-in-cleveland-police-137-bullets-shooting-reaches-settlement-in-federal-court
and
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/oh-cuyahoga/the-family-of-timothy-russell-releases-statement-russell-was-a-victim-in-the-deadly-2012-cpd-chase
lunasun
(21,646 posts)The settlement follows a Cuyahoga County grand jury indictment of Cleveland Patrolman Michael Brelo with two counts of voluntary manslaughter.