East Cleveland, OH – A Cuyahoga County grand jury handed down three indictments charging 11 present and former members of the East Cleveland police drive with a bevy of crimes, the proof for many of which was captured on video (video beneath).

The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Workplace and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Cleveland Division held a joint press convention on March 8 to announce public corruption and civil rights violations costs in opposition to the 11 active-duty and retired regulation enforcement officers, Cleveland.com reported.

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley, Assistant Prosecuting Lawyer Gregory Mussman, and FBI Particular Agent in Cost Gregory Nelson had been available to launch a 14-minute video that confirmed East Cleveland cops hitting, kicking, stomping, and Tasing suspects who had their palms up or weren’t in any other case resisting arrest, WEWS reported.

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

The primary video confirmed East Cleveland Police Officer Nicholas Foti repeatedly stomping on an individual in police custody who was on the bottom, WEWS reported.

The second video confirmed East Cleveland Police Officer Ian McInnes telling a suspect who’s on his knees, going through away from him, to lie on his abdomen.

When the suspect didn’t transfer quick sufficient for Officer McInnes, the video confirmed he kicked the person within the again and knocked him to the ground.

The third video confirmed East Cleveland Police Sergeant John Hartman and East Cleveland Police Officer Tristan Homan chasing a suspect, who was on foot, of their police automotive.

By the point the officers had jumped out of their patrol automobile to apprehend the suspect, the video confirmed the person was already on the bottom facedown, ready for them.

Sgt. Hartman and Officer Homan had been joined by East Cleveland Police Officer Kyle Wooden at that time, and the video confirmed the three officers beat the already-prone suspect, WEWS reported.

Then they tossed him at the back of a police automotive.

“Good little ass whooping,” Sgt. Hartman mentioned within the video.

“Shouldn’t have resisted,” Officer Wooden added.

The fourth video confirmed Officer McInnes working as much as a suspect who’s sitting on the bottom in opposition to a wall along with his palms up and the officer shoving the particular person to the bottom and kicking them within the groin, WEWS reported.

The fifth video additionally concerned Officer McInnes and confirmed him working as much as an unarmed suspect who was being held at Taser-point by one other officer and kicking him within the ribs.

The sixth video launched by prosecutors confirmed Sgt. Hartman repeatedly punching a suspect within the head, WEWS reported.

The seventh video confirmed East Cleveland Police Officers Tyler Mundson and Brian Stoll discovering a suspect’s cellphone within the again seat of a police automotive after they’d made a transport.

Officer Stoll used two palms to bend and break the iPhone after which joked about it with Officer Mundson.

Contained in the police station, the video confirmed the officers joked with Officer Wooden in regards to the cellphone and the arrest they’d simply made.

“I threw the meanest f-king hook.” Officer Stoll bragged within the video.

“I didn’t get a single lick in,” Officer Mundson complained.

The eighth video appeared to indicate Officer McInnes deliberately struck a fleeing suspect along with his patrol automobile, WEWS reported.

The video confirmed three officers jumped on the injured man, who didn’t stand up after he was hit, to place him in handcuffs.

The officers punched the suspect and deployed their Tasers a number of occasions, WEWS reported.

The suspect sustained a damaged pelvis because of the incident.

“Regretfully, what you didn’t see, was the automotive— 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.

The ninth video confirmed East Cleveland Police Officer Brian Parks Tasing a person a number of occasions, WEWS reported.

“I feel to any informal observer, these movies are appalling and a poor reflection of policing inside our neighborhood and clearly prison conduct,” the prosecutor instructed reporters.

The three indictments consisted of a number of costs in opposition to 11 present and former East Cleveland cops.

“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,” O’Malley mentioned. “And so definitely 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,” the prosecutor instructed reporters. “However it additionally lit a fireplace in me that these items needed to be fastened. And so, repair them we are going to.”

4 of the 11 officers had been beforehand indicted on different costs, and 7 had been newly indicted, WEWS reported.

Sixteen present and former East Cleveland cops have been 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 ready to rent officers who implement the regulation in addition to observe the regulation. I need to say this can be a unhappy day for all of regulation enforcement.”

Neighborhood members have expressed concern about public security as so many officers have rapidly been sidelined.

“The current indictments of the extra 4 officers is not going to stop my company from functioning or adequately defending the residents, the indictments had been anticipated as this has been an on-going investigation,” East Cleveland Police Chief Brian Gerhard wrote in an announcement to WEWS.

“I’ve cooperated totally with the county prosecutor’s workplace and can proceed to take action, the county investigator and his colleague from the FBI have the flexibility to logon the company bodycam system and have been supplied all data they’ve requested from me to help of their investigation into corrupt exercise inside the division,” Chief Gerhard continued.

“As I acknowledged when appointed chief final October, I’ll transfer the division in a optimistic route, I’ve excellent personnel on my workers that may help me rebuilding the company,” the police chief added.

Watch the incidents unfold within the video beneath. WARNING – Graphic Content material and Obscene Language: