EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — Eleven extra present and former East Cleveland Law enforcement officials have been indicted for committing crimes, together with beating, kicking and violently assaulting members of the very group they had been sworn to serve and defend.

The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Workplace and the Cleveland Division of the FBI held a information convention Wednesday afternoon to announce public corruption and civil rights violation indictments towards 11 present and former East Cleveland law enforcement officials.

In attendance had been Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley, Assistant Prosecuting Lawyer Gregory Mussman and FBI Particular Agent in Cost Gregory Nelson.

“The actual sufferer right here was all the metropolis, all of the residents of East Cleveland, who needed to stay in a metropolis with worry. To do on a regular basis chores, to get merely pulled over and the worry of what could occur once they had been merely pulled over or maybe confronted whereas strolling the streets. And it’s arduous for me to think about what they’ve needed to endure,” O’Malley mentioned.

You possibly can watch the information convention in its entirety beneath:

11 East Cleveland law enforcement officials indicted on quite a few fees

Physique digital camera movies present officers alleged actions — This content material beneath accommodates graphic language. Reader discretion is suggested.

Authorities confirmed a number of physique digital camera movies of the people who had been indicted.

The primary video offered confirmed Officer Nicholas Foti repeatedly stomping on an individual who was in police custody on the bottom.

The second video exhibits Officer Ian McInnes ordering an individual to lie down on their abdomen. The person is on their knees, going through away from the officer when McInnes approaches from behind and kicks the individual within the again, knocking them to the ground.

The third video exhibits Officer Kyle Wooden, Sgt. John Hartman and Officer Tristan Homan. The video begins with Hartman and Homan driving in a cruiser chasing somebody. As they strategy, one of many officers says, “Get that B****.” Because the car involves a cease, the officers leap out and one says, “Get his ass, get his ass, get his ass boy.” By the point the officers received out of the automobile, the person was already mendacity facedown on the street. Each officers and a 3rd officer strategy and instantly begin beating the individual. They’re then positioned behind a police cruiser. Homan may be heard on a physique digital camera saying, “Good little ass whooping.” Woods responds, “Should not have resisted.”

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The fourth video includes McInnes and exhibits him exiting a police cruiser and operating as much as an individual who’s sitting on the bottom towards a wall with their fingers up within the air. McInnes may be seen shoving the individual to the bottom and kicking them within the groin.

The fifth video exhibits an officer pointing a taser at an unarmed man mendacity face down on the bottom. The person rolls over onto his aspect and the officer yells at him to show round face down and to not transfer. McInnes then runs into the body, rushes as much as the person and kicks him within the ribs.

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The sixth video includes Hartman and exhibits him repeatedly placing somebody in custody within the head.

The seventh video concerned Officer Tyler Mundson, Officer Brian Stoll, and Wooden following an arrest and on the East Cleveland Police Division precinct. Stoll and Mundson are looking out the again of a cruiser and photographs exhibits Stoll discover somebody’s telephone within the again seat. Stoll makes use of two fingers and presses down on the telephone to interrupt it, and says, “Nothing.” The opposite officer replies, “I did not see something both.” Later, Stoll may be seen holding the telephone and stating, “How does it nonetheless activate?” Mundson responds, “That is spectacular.” The 2 officers then discuss with different police personnel, joking about how straightforward the pursuit was. Stoll later says, “I threw the meanest f******* hook.” Mundson responds, “I did not get a single lick in.”

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The eighth video, which includes McInnes, Homan and Officer Laurice Mans, exhibits a person colliding with the squad automobile McInnes was driving. McInnes calls out over the radio that the person struck his car, however O’Malley mentioned {that a} longer model of the video extra clearly exhibits that McInnes appeared to strike the person as a substitute of avoiding him.

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“Regretfully, what you didn’t see, was the automobile— the officer taking a left flip and didn’t seem to decelerate or didn’t seem to keep away from the accident, versus driving straight into the man,” O’Malley mentioned.

After the person is on the bottom, there’s a wrestle and one officer makes use of a taser on him thrice whereas the opposite two officers punch him. The person sustained a damaged pelvis from the occasion.

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The ninth video exhibits Officer Brian Parks tasing a person a number of instances. The person asks the officer, “why did you tase me?” He responds, “Why did you run?”

“I believe to any informal observer, these movies are appalling and a poor reflection of policing inside our group and clearly prison conduct,” O’Malley mentioned.

The three indictments consisted of a slew of fees towards the 11 officers.

“I used to be appalled that we may very well be witnessing — witnessing a man handcuffed and his head stomped, or witnessing a man handcuffed and being tased whereas handcuffed repeatedly, which to me is a type of torture. And so actually I used to be shaken. My subsequent ideas went to the victims of those incidents and the way they’re doing. However what we noticed, once more, had been individuals who had surrendered and had been being brutalized. And it upset me. Nevertheless it additionally lit a fireplace in me that this stuff needed to be mounted. And so, repair them we are going to,” O’Malley mentioned.

Seven of the officers are newly indicted. 4 of them had been beforehand indicted on different fees. As of Wednesday, there have been 16 present or former East Cleveland law enforcement officials indicted within the final six-and-a-half months.

“Make no mistake, there was a most cancers rising within the East Cleveland Police Division,” O’Malley mentioned. “We’re doing our greatest to take away each tentacle of that most cancers in order that this division can rebuild and develop, to place itself able to rent officers who implement the legislation in addition to observe the legislation. I wish to say this can be a unhappy day for all of legislation enforcement.”

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Beneath are the person officers and their particular fees:

Brian Thomas Parks – present officer
Parks is charged with two counts of felonious assault, each second-degree felonies; tried felonious assault, a third-degree felony, assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; tampering with information, a third-degree felony; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

The entire fees stem from an incident on Oct. 1, 2021.

Nicholas Foti – beforehand resigned
Foti is charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony; tried felonious assault, a third-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

The entire fees stem from an incident on April 1, 2020.

Kyle Wooden – East Cleveland investigator – beforehand indicted
For an incident that allegedly occurred on March 31, 2022, Wooden has been charged with theft in workplace, a fifth-degree felony; tamping with proof, a third-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor; dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor and telecommunications fraud, a fifth-degree felony.

For an incident that allegedly occurred on April 10, 2022, Wooden has been charged with assault, a second-degree felony; tried felonious assault, a third-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; obstructing justice, a third-degree felony; telecommunications fraud, a fifth-degree felony; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

For an incident that allegedly occurred on Nov. 26, 2021, Wooden has been charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor; tampering with information, a third-degree felony and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

For an incident that allegedly occurred on July 16, 2022, Wooden has been charged with telecommunications fraud, a fifth-degree felony; tampering with information, a third-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor

Tyler Mundson – present police officer – beforehand indicted
For an incident that allegedly occurred on March 31, 2022, Mudson has been charged with theft in workplace, a fifth-degree felony; tampering with proof, a third-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

For an incident that allegedly occurred on April 10, 2022, Mudson has been charged with obstructing justice, a third-degree felony; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

For an incident that allegedly occurred on July 16, 2022, Mundson has been charged with tampering with information, a third-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

Brian Stoll – presently on depart for earlier indictments
For an incident that allegedly occurred on March 31, 2022, Stoll is charged with theft in workplace, a fifth-degree misdemeanor; tampering with proof, a third-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

For an incident that allegedly occurred on April 10, 2022, Stoll has been charged with assault, a second-degree felony; tried felonious assault, a third-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; obstructing justice, a third-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

Daniel Toomer – presently on depart for earlier indictments
For an incident that allegedly occurred on April 10, 2022, Toomer has been charged with obstructing justice, a third-degree felony; tampering with proof, a third-degree felony; tampering with information, a third-degree felony; theft in workplace, a fifth-degree felony; disrupting public companies, a fourth-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

Tristan Homan – presently an Elyria police officer after resigning at East Cleveland
For an incident that allegedly occurred on Nov. 26, 2021, Homan has been charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

For an incident that allegedly occurred on April 12, 2022, Homan is charged with assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

John E. Hartman – present police sergeant
For an incident that allegedly occurred on Nov. 26, 2021, Hartman has been charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor; tampering with information, a third-degree felony and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

For an incident that allegedly occurred on July 10, 2022, Hartman has been charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony; tried felonious assault, a third-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

For an incident that allegedly occurred on July 14, 2022, Hartman has been charged with tampering with information, a third-degree felony.

Tre DeHart-Robinson – present police officer
For an incident that allegedly occurred on July 16, 2022, DeHart-Robinson has been charged with telecommunications fraud, a fifth-degree felony; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor

Ian W. McInnes – present police detective
For an incident that allegedly occurred on Feb. 25, 2020, McInnes is charged with tried felonious assault, a third-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

For an incident that allegedly occurred on Feb. 14, 2022, McInnes is charged with tried felonious assault, a third-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

For an incident that allegedly occurred on Oct. 3, 2021, McInnes is charged with tried felonious assault, a third-degree felony; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

For an incident that allegedly occurred on April 12, 2022, McInnes is charged with two counts of felonious assault, each second-degree felonies; assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

Laurice Mans – former officer who was terminated
For an incident that allegedly occurred on April 12, 2022, Mans is charged with assault, a first-degree misdemeanor; interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor and dereliction of responsibility, a second-degree misdemeanor.

Prior indictments
Final yr, 9 East Cleveland law enforcement officials— together with Police Chief Scott Gardner— had been indicted on numerous fees. Their instances are all nonetheless pending in court docket.

Gardner was suspended and positioned on administrative depart after he was charged with a number of felonies that included telecommunications fraud, tampering with information, passing unhealthy checks, failing to remit, theft, grand theft and theft in workplace.

That indictment alleged Gardner didn’t file returns and pay taxes from 2014 to 2019, and purposely falsified, destroyed, eliminated, hid, altered, defaced or mutilated digital gross sales tax return information with the aim of defrauding the Ohio Division of Taxation.

Gardner has since been terminated from East Cleveland Police.

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