Cleveland agrees to strict new rules on its police department

Cleveland agrees to strict new rules on its police department

By Sari Horwitz

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cleveland-agrees-to-strict-new-rules-on-its-police-department/2015/05/26/a8f95aac-03d0-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html?wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

The city of Cleveland has agreed to have its police department overseen by an independent monitor and subject its officers to strict and explicit new rules on the use of force under an agreement with the Justice Department that was announced Tuesday.

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The settlement, set against the growing debate over policing tactics in the United States, comes just days after a judge acquitted a white Cleveland police officer in the fatal shooting of two unarmed African Americans in 2012. The agreement is an outgrowth of a scathing report the Justice Department, issued in December, accusing Cleveland police of illegally using deadly force against citizens.

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