Video shows men pointing guns at Cleveland police officer

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A video that was posted to social media exhibits two males sitting within the entrance seat of a automobile waving round semi-automatic handguns, one with an prolonged clip, after which pointing the weapons at a Cleveland police officer who was sitting in a cruiser.

Cleveland Police Union President Jeff Follmer stated that one thing wants to alter within the metropolis, and rapidly or “we’re going to lose the battle.”

Follmer stated his officers will proceed to do their job and can again one another up and the precedence will probably be to go dwelling safely every evening.

“These children don’t have any concern and it must be stopped, police work must get just a little aggressive proper now and take again town of Cleveland,” Follmer stated.

The November passage of Subject 24, which can result in a civilian evaluate board of Cleveland officers, was simply one other step, Follmer stated of handcuffing his officers who really feel restricted whereas on the job, and has emboldened the criminals

The town’s officers have been working with out a contract now for 3 weeks and Follmer stated town wants to supply a good wage in order that they will hold officers on the streets as a result of in line with Fullmer, town is dropping officers to higher-paying suburban departments.

Because it stands, Follmer stated the division is down 260 officers and will probably be hard-pressed to cowl shifts as soon as the summer time months arrive.

Cleveland Metropolis Council President Blaine Griffin was past dissatisfied when he first noticed the video.

“All of us needs to be incensed, incensed that we obtained right here as a society,” Griffin stated.

A tradition that glorifies weapons and accepts that it’s okay to submit a video with that content material on social media is problematic and results in the deeper query of how did we get to level of the place that is taking place.

“Till we actually perceive and replicate upon what we’ve simply seen as a group and as a society have been going to proceed to have the violence that now we have on this metropolis and it’s actually appalling, it’s actually, actually surprising and completely unacceptable,” Griffin stated.

Cleveland police are investigating.

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