Cleveland cop acquittal a fair verdict? [View all]

[NaturalHigh]

(CNN)—Protests broke out in Cleveland after the acquittal of Michael Brelo, a police officer who had been charged with voluntary manslaughter and felonious assault in the 2012 shooting deaths of two unarmed people.

We have seen a lot of alleged cases of excessive and deadly force by law enforcement, and in the last year, protests have followed decisions or events absolving law enforcement of responsibility. This has been understandable in some of these cases.

This is not one of them.

If you are among those who heard little about this case until the verdict, your takeaway may have been that a police officer jumped onto the hood of an unarmed suspect's car and fired 15 times into the windshield.


http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/26/opinions/cevallos-cleveland-acquittal/index.html