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U.S. NEWSWednesday 27 May 2015
Cleveland, US Justice Department announce police settlement
Vanita Gupta, head of civil rights division at the Department of MARK GILLISPIE shot barrage of police gun- suspects.
Associated Press fire following a high-speed The agency said supervi-
Justice, center, speaks at a news conference announcing the CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleve- chase. The case helped sors encouraged some of
land agreed to overhaul prompt an 18-month inves- the bad behavior and of-
settlement agreement with the City of Cleveland Tuesday, May its police department un- tigation by the Justice De- ten did little to investigate
der the supervision of a partment. it. The department found
26, 2015, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) federal monitor in a settle- In a report released in De- that only six officers had
ment announced Tuesday cember, the department been suspended for im-
with the U.S. Department required the city to work proper use of force over a
of Justice over a pattern of with community leaders three-year period.
excessive force and other and other officials to devise Two other high-profile po-
abuses by officers. a plan to reform the police lice-involved deaths still
The announcement comes department. A judge must hang over the city: that of
three days after a white approve the plan, and an Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old
patrolman was acquitted independent monitor will black boy who was carry-
of voluntary manslaughter oversee it. ing a pellet gun at a play-
charges in the shooting The settlement calls for new ground when he was fa-
deaths of two unarmed use-of-force guidelines, a tally shot by a white rookie
black suspects in a 137- focus on community en- patrolman Nov. 22, 2014,
gagement, accountability and that of 37-year-old
reforms, training on bias- Tanisha Anderson, a men-
free policing and a mental tally ill woman who died of
health advisory commit- positional asphyxiation af-
tee. The worst examples ter officers took her to the
of excessive force in the ground and handcuffed
Justice Department report her Nov. 12, 2014.
involved patrol officers The investigation was the
who endangered lives by second time in recent
shooting at suspects and years the Justice Depart-
cars, hit people over the ment has taken the Cleve-
head with guns and used land police to task over
stun guns on handcuffed the use of force.q
Appeals panel won’t lift hold
on Obama immigration plan
KEVIN McGILL some parents of U.S. citi-
JUAN A. LOZANO zens and permanent resi-
Associated Press dents. Although Obama
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Presi- argued lack of action by
dent Barack Obama’s Congress forced him to
plan to shield as many as make sweeping changes
5 million immigrants living on his own, Republicans
in theU.S. from deportation blasted the plan as an ex-
remained on hold Tues- ecutive overreach. Twen-
day after a federal ap- ty-six states have sued to
peals court panel refused stop it, and a federal judge
to allow it to take effect based in Texas issued a pre-
immediately. Obama an- liminary injunction against
nounced an executive ac- it in February.
tion in November seeking The administration is ap-
to expand a program that pealing that injunction and
protects young immigrants had asked a three-judge
from deportation if they panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit
were brought to the U.S. Court of Appeals to let the
illegally as children. The program proceed pending
order also would extend an argument on the merits,
deportation protections to tentatively set for July.q
