Police Shoot Teen While Serving Search Warrant (15 year old shot 12 times)

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An investigation is under way after Cleveland police were involved in the shooting of a 15-year-old boy on Cleveland's east side.
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Sept. 1: Shooting Scene

The shooting happened at about 5:15 a.m. Thursday on Jeffries Street off Warner Road. Cleveland police entered Brandon McCloud's second-floor bedroom, looking for stolen merchandise.

Police say the ninth-grader threatened them with a steak knife, and police then fired nearly a dozen shots.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/wews/20050901/lo_wews/2912981

[Wickerman]

1. Damn, whatever happened to a good ol' fashioned Tasering?

that is sad.

[JustSayNO 2 Sheeples]

2. People have whined that Tasers are killing people

It won't be a non-lethal tool much longer.

[Demonaut]

3. but the steak knife was froma set of twelve

:wtf:

[nosmokes]

4. so was the bullet, looks like...

>>police then fired nearly a dozen shots.

[Algorem]

5. Search warrant rules changing

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/112694970957570.xml&coll=2

Fatal police shooting prompts new policy

Saturday, September 17, 2005

...Ohio law governs the execution of search warrants. Soon Cleveland will add its own, stricter rules, Mayor Jane Campbell said. "In this instance, we learned there was not a clear, written protocol for the execution of a warrant," she said...

The warrant that led to McCloud's death has been a subject of controversy. The judge who signed it, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Timothy J. McGinty, has defended the officers, the probable cause they showed for the warrant and their early-morning entry.

But State Rep. Shirley Smith has said detectives acted like it was "an execution warrant signed by the governor."...

Reed will hold a public hearing at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the committee room at City Hall about how the Civilian Review Board should investigate police shootings.

[Algorem]

6. Coroner takes separate look at police shooting

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1126863708283130.xml?ncounty_cuyahoga&coll=2

New policy applied in teenager's death

Friday, September 16, 2005

...The coroner's office and police are conducting separate investigations into the shooting. City Prosecutor Anthony Jordan will use both sets of results to determine if the shooting was justified...

Charles Teel Sr. is a retired East Cleveland homicide detective and more recently an investigator for the county prosecutor's office. His son, Charles Teel Jr., is a Cleveland patrolman in the Special Investigations Unit.

Clark and Charles Teel Sr. could interview Brandon's grandmother, Dorothy Chappell, and uncle, Melvin Chappell, as soon as today, said Terry Gilbert, legal counsel for the family.

In a letter dated Sept. 8, Gilbert asked that an independent blood spatter expert be added to the investigative efforts. Balraj recommended three experts for Gilbert to choose from and volunteered to pay for the service. It is not clear how much it will cost.

[Algorem]

7. Sadness, anger displayed at teen's funeral

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1126258783248010.xml&coll=2

Friday, September 09, 2005

"There are special circumstances about Brandon's death that anger us," the Rev. C. Jay Matthews told about 300 mourners, including several area politicians and ministers...

But those who are angry - and there are many - believe Brandon was "asleep and defenseless," as stated in a poem passed out at the funeral...

State Rep. Shirley Smith fired off a letter to Cleveland Safety Director Sanford Watson earlier this week saying: "Obviously mistook the search warrant signed by a judge as that of an execution warrant signed by the governor."...

As the funeral was ending, the local NAACP chapter expressed its anger and suggested that the investigation of Brandon's death will be an issue in the mayoral race...

[woldnewton]

10. The NAACP? So I would be correct in assuming the victim was black?

I'm sure Blackwell will make this a prominent issue in his campaign for governor...


if only Strickland can do the "same"; this would be a great way to retain the black vote in the traditional Dem column.

[Algorem]

8. “Fatal police raid leaves questions”

http://www.acluohio.org/inthenews/index.php?cat=9

...He was 5 feet 6 and weighed about 150 pounds.

To his family, he was a funny, playful freshman at South High School who enjoyed video games, basketball and rap music...

His family can't understand why two police officers emptied 10 bullets into the 15-year-old in his bedroom at 5 a.m. Thursday.

Neither can I...

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/regina_brett/index.ssf?/base/opinion/112608588411491.xml&coll=2

[Algorem]

9. Preliminary Ruling: Police Shooting Of Teen Justifiable

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/4934398/detail.html

Community Rallies In Protest Of Police Actions

POSTED: 9:39 am EDT September 4, 2005

CLEVELAND -- ...

But the emotions run higher than ever among family members who joined community activists at the rally, toting signs calling police murderers and holding pictures of nearly 20 other people shot to death during confrontations with police officers.

"They murdered him," said McCloud's grandmother, Dorothy Chappell. "They are what I call an execution squad. That's what I call them."...

Family members said they told police McCloud was upstairs, and say they were prevented from encouraging the teen to come out peacefully.

"They did not allow me to go into my house and get my nephew. That's what should have happened," said McCloud's uncle, Melvin Chappell...

[Algorem]

11. LTTE-Teen's shooting just doesn't add up

Monday, September 05, 2005
Unfortunately, we'll never know the actions of Bran don McCloud the morning of his death. We will never know if it was necessary for two police officers to fire 10 shots at this 15-year-old at 5 a.m. in his bedroom. Brandon was killed. His story will never be told.

How is this OK? Ten gunshots is considered self-defense? Supposedly Brandon had a knife in his room. Well, was the knife even in his hand? And if it was, couldn't one shot be fired, maybe in his arm, as a warning to stop him?

Lisa O'Leary

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1125826295189101.xml?oxlet&coll=2

[Algorem]

12. Police slaying of teen merits external probe

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1126258556248010.xml?ocbre&coll=2

Friday, September 09, 2005
Regina Brett
Plain Dealer Columnist

It was obvious the family wanted everyone to see what police did to their boy.

A gold light attached to the open casket lit up the face of Brandon McCloud.

Mourners stopped to stare, to study where the makeup hid the bullet holes. One man looked long and hard, then walked down the church aisle and whispered, "Murder."

A minister shook the church with prayers and a few words that didn't fit the occasion. He called Brandon a hero and a victim...

[Algorem]

13. 2 LTTE's-

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1126431033238770.xml?oxlet&coll=2

A teenager is dead, and the questions linger

Sunday, September 11, 2005

How typical. Another poor, young, inner-city black youth is killed by the police, and everyone wants to start pointing fingers and crying "conspiracy."

The two highly decorated policemen involved were doing what they are paid to do: investigating a series of violent aggravated robberies...

Troy Edge

Cleveland

Edge is a Cleveland police officer.

In response to Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association Presi dent Bob Beck's characterization of Brandon McCloud (letters, Sept. 9) as a "street thug": To sum up this child's life that way is beyond insensitive, beyond cruel. It betrays the kind of thinking that could allow officers to enter a teenager's bedroom and riddle him with bullets. Brandon McCloud was a 15-year-old boy. He was a person, a son, a brother, a nephew, and a new high school student.

It is apparent that he faced a challenging life. We don't know why he lived with a guardian and an uncle instead of in a home with a parent. We don't know what events led up to his problematic behaviors, but we do see that he experienced conflict and legal problems during his formative years, and all of the complications and difficulties that would result from that. We do know that, like all 15-year-olds, he had hopes, disappointments and insecurities...

Dortha L. Williams

Shaker Heights

[Algorem]

14. Robbery victim fights his fears -- and guilt

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/112660418212900.xml?ncounty_cuyahoga&coll=2

Deliveryman struggles with boy's death

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Out of the shadows, the pizza deliveryman spotted something charging toward him.

A wolf's face. A man's body. And a knife.

"Give me your money," the robber in the werewolf mask demanded as darkness crept over the city Aug. 31.

Anthony Jones dropped the pizzas and his cell phone and money where he stood, on the porch of a house in the 7900 block of Jeffries Avenue in southeast Cleveland...

[Algorem]

15. Detective probed over suspect's injury

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/112660411512901.xml?ncounty_cuyahoga&coll=2

Driver was struck by gun during arrest

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Cleveland police have opened a deadly force investigation against one of their own after a detective hit a suspect in the head with the butt of a gun.

It happened during an arrest Saturday at a Burger King on Detroit Avenue. Craig L. Benjamin, 21, of Cleveland, suffered a black eye and a cut while being arrested about 8:40 p.m. He was suspected of drug crimes and prior assaults on two detectives.

Although his injuries were not life-threatening, homicide and Internal Affairs detectives investigate any time police use potentially deadly force, including striking someone in the head with a gun or baton.

Saturday's incident began when police cars surrounded Benjamin and he locked himself in a full-sized van. As police tried to get the 300-pound man out, Detective Juan Mendoza opened the door, reached inside and "accidentally" hit Benjamin with his gun before the suspect slammed the door on his arm, said Lt. Thomas Stacho, a police spokesman...

[Algorem]

16. Police union defends two who killed teen suspect

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/112669060683820.xml?ncounty_cuyahoga&coll=2

Critics dismissed as political

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Cleveland police union leaders went on the offensive Monday in defense of two detectives who killed a 15-year-old boy, blaming the boy and his uncle for the shooting and decrying some community leaders they say have politicized the tragedy.

Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Bob Beck held a news conference Tuesday to reiterate his claim that Brandon McCloud had a knife and attacked two detectives who had come to the boy's house early Sept. 1 to search for evidence in an armed robbery.

Detectives Phillip Habeeb and John Kraynik shot him 10 times.

Habeeb and Kraynik stood just outside the room where Beck spoke Tuesday but could hear what was said. The detectives were taken off paid administrative leave Monday and assigned to work in the police gym. Union officials declined to have the detectives speak to a reporter...

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/other/1126776653166910.xml?corrx&coll=2

Corrections and Clarifications

Thursday, September 15, 2005

A story on the front page of the Metro section Wednesday stated that attorney Terry Gilbert accused Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty of not signing the search warrant until after 15-year-old Brandon McCloud was killed in a police shooting. Gilbert, who is serving as legal counsel for the family, said he was only questioning whether the warrant was signed. The story also said Gilbert shared a belief with others that police shot Brandon while he was in his bed asleep. Gilbert said he doesn't believe that Brandon was asleep when he was shot but that he was asleep when police entered the house.

[Algorem]

17. Mayor candidates say clear policy, police training key to safety

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1127044967117590.xml?ncounty_cuyahoga&coll=2

Sunday, September 18, 2005

How would candidates for Cleveland mayor reduce police shootings such as the one that killed 15-year-old Brandon McCloud this month?

Training. And more training.

They also want a clear, enforced policy on when deadly force should be used.

A few candidates advocate the use of stun guns, too...

[Algorem]

18. 4 LTTE's,3cops and a pizza deliverer

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/opinion/112694965357570.xml?oxlet&coll=2

Don't make excuses for teenage robber

Sunday, September 18, 2005

I have followed with sadness the stories concerning the recent tragic shooting of Brandon McCloud and the ensuing vilification of two brave police officers, Phillip Habeeb and John Kraynik.

George Forbes and Bob Beck, taking rhetorical squirts at each other, accomplish nothing. The credibility of each has long been diminished in the community.

The visceral reactions of a family that apparently did little in the way of tutelage is no surprise. Now, in addition, out from under his rock comes Terry Gilbert, always ready to slander a police officer to suit his own interests. This harlequin attorney once again makes a fool out of himself by impugning the integrity of three men — two brave officers and a diligent Common Pleas Court judge. Unlike Gilbert, when a judge is awakened in the middle of the night, the talk often involves matters potentially of life and death, not retainers.

My sense is the Terry Gilberts of the world would soil themselves if forced to do what Phil Habeeb, John Kraynik and countless other brave officers do nightly — namely, walk down alleys, pull over vehicles, and certainly push through doors to face potentially deadly evil on the other side. I would encourage those so quick to condemn these officers to visit the lobby of the Justice Center. There they’ll find a case with row upon row of badges belonging to brave men with loving families, who left their homes with tender hearts and reported for their duty to protect the people of Cleveland, never to make it back home...

[Algorem]

19. cops trying to catch teen who's shooting at them

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news/1127045061117590.xml?nxlaw&coll=2

Police surrounded Cedar Apartments for several hours Saturday trying to find a teenager who shot at them Friday night.

Police believe it was the latest in a string of gunshots fired at officers by the same youth.

The suspect is 17 and has been firing at officers for about two weeks, Capt. Joseph Sadie said...

"Why would you point a gun at police, especially after what just happened to that other boy?" neighbor Larry Bigg said...

[Algorem]

20. Council President Jackson-public's confidence needs to be restored

http://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/news.asp?newsID={92F487D6-B4C7-4EE1-986B-D6495C5AF07F}

Council President Jackson says public’s confidence needs to be restored in wake of shooting

9/6/2005

Cleveland City Council President Frank G. Jackson has added his voice to the growing concern regarding the shooting of 15-year-old Brandon McCloud. Jackson says there is a need for a completely transparent investigation of the shooting in order to determine whether the shooting was justified and to restore public confidence in the Cleveland Police Department.


“We have had a rash of shootings in the City over the last few years; and, whether or not they were justified, the public’s perception of the way in which they were handled has eroded the credibility of the Police Department,” said Jackson. “People have lost confidence in the process and we need to be able to restore that confidence.”


Jackson’s comments echo those of Rev. Marvin McMickle, Rev. C.J. Matthews and Rev. Larry Macons, who, in conjunction with the United Pastors in Mission, held a meeting on Monday, September 5, 2005 regarding the shooting. Concerns raised at the meeting include the allegation that forensic evidence contradicts police statements, the allegation that the warrant was not signed and that it was served on the 15-year-old at 5:00 a.m. and that his parents were not allowed to retrieve him from his room. More than 100 people attended Monday’s meeting, asking for justice and an investigation.


Jackson added that he and the other members of Cleveland City Council are grateful to the United Pastors in Mission for speaking out on this issue...