Cleveland’s rogue cops shown stomping on civilians, tasering handcuffed suspects and mowing down people in cars as 11 more are indicted and city has to call in help from Sheriff’s and state due to so many being fired
- Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office indicted 11 East Cleveland police officers
- Video shows them pummeling, tasing, and stomping on defenseless citizens
- Prosecutor Michael O’Malley said East Cleveland is down to 25 patrol officers
Prosecutors in Ohio announced that 11 current and former East Cleveland police officers were indicted.
They were accused of violating civil rights and of public corruption – charges include felonious assault, assault, tampering with records and disrupting public service.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office released on Wednesday a 14-minute video showing officers pummeling, tasing, kicking and stomping on defenseless citizens.
Another video shows an officer using his patrol vehicle to ram into a man on foot.
The indictments came after a two-year investigation led by the FBI’s Cleveland Field Office, said Prosecutor Michael O’Malley, who described it as ‘a sad day for law enforcement’ during a conference on Wednesday.
Video shows them pummeling, tasing, and stomping on defenseless citizens. Officer Tristan Homan is pictured here
Officer Ian McInnes was seen in one clip repeatedly firing his taser aa a man wirthed on the floor and appeared to offer no resistance
‘Make no mistake There has been a cancer growing in the East Cleveland Police Department,’ said O’Malley said during the conference.
‘We are doing our best to remove every tentacle of that cancer, so this department can rebuild and grow to put itself in a position to hire officers who will enforce the law as well as follow the law.’
All crimes, for which there were 11 victims, were said to have happened between February 2020 and July 2022.
‘People in these videos were giving up. They were showing their hands, they were not threats, they were acquiescing to the authority of law enforcement and putting their hands up in all these instances and that wasn’t enough and I don’t know what else ay citizen can do,’ said O’Malley.
In one clip the officer can be sign swinging repeated punches to a man curled up in the street, before hitting him to the groin while a fellow officer shouted: ‘Get his ass, boy!’
Shortly after they comment on the ‘nice little ass whooping’.
McInnes crashed into a man on foot with his patrol car car breaking the victim’s pelvis and the car’s windshield
Officer Ian McInnes could be seen kicking a man to the floor although he had his hands behind his head
Shortly after a man was pommeled on the street he was aggressively thrown into the back of a patrol car (right)
In one clip presented on Wednesday, Officer Ian McInnes ran over to a man sitting on the sidewalk with his arms raised before shouting: ‘Give me your f**king hands’
One video showed an officer tasing a man who was already on the ground with his hands up.
In another an officer shows off to another how he had almost folded somebody’s phone in half, to which the other responds he was surprised the battery hadn’t exploded.
Former East Cleveland police chief, Scott Gardner, was charged last year with stealing from the city and not paying due taxes.
The officers, present and former, indicted yesterday were Nicholas Foti, Ian McInnes, Kyle Wood, John Hartman, Tristan Homan, Brian Stoll, Tyler Mundson, Laurice Mans, Brian Parks, Daniel Toomer, Tre Dehart Robinson.
Four – Mundson, Stoll, Wood and Toomer – have been previously indicted for other crimes, including felonious assault and theft in office. They had already been suspended without pay.
Nonetheless the O’Malley said the department was understaffed and only 25 officer were now free to patrol East Cleveland, a city of around 13,600.
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