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I m going to tell you something. why did they test the police officers? why didn t they test them? they come out, they said okay and all these drugs, why y all didn t test the police officers. why y all didn t test them? let me tell you something. judges police officers even the newscast may do drugs. everybody do something. but it s not, that s not a right. for you to kill them like that do you see what he did? why is he off? you got on top of the car! who does that? because you didn t care. now you all, you killed my family member he ain t never coming back. but guess what he could be with his family. you re listening to one of the cousins of the victim there is rene robinson clearly very upset. melissa williams timothy russell were the two that were in that vehicle november 29th when police officers, 13 in all, opened fire and you heard from ....
i therefore find the defendant not guilty of counts 1 and 2 as indicted. the state did prove the lesser included offense of felonious assault on both counts by demonstrating beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knowingly caused serious physical harm to both victims. but the defendant proved by a preponderance of the evidence that he is legally excused from liability for those crimes because he cause kd the serious physical harm of the victims in a constitutionally reasonable effort to end an objectively reasonable perception that he and the others present were threatened by russell and williams with imminent serious bodily harm. i therefore also find the defendant not guilty of felonious assault of the lesser included offense on both indicted counts and the defendant is discharged. thank you. you see there cleveland officer, michael brelo, tearfully relieved there as the ....
Again. this ain t over. this is not over. he got to pay. and it is what it is man. you know he gots to pay. he gots to pay. speak about the emotions of your family in terms my family hurt. my grandmother just had, my grandmother just fell out. she s sick over there, she fell out. she couldn t stand up down here. when she heard the verdict. she went ballistic. this man got fault, not guilty of murder? you know there are people in the community pointing the blame at your sister and the guy that was driving the car for putting the officers lives in danger. when you hear that my sister couldn t never have put the officers life in danger because first of all, melissa williams wasn t driving. timothy russell was driving. so that ain t got nothing to do with my sister. and by the way, like they said early on the news talking about timothy russell would have stopped. they would still be living. no they wouldn t. ....
Manslaughter. as it relates to the shooting deaths of two people in their vehicle. that of timothy russell and melissa williams. you heard from ryan young earlier who spoke with the brother of melissa walls, who now says there wasn t much trust in the cleveland police before this and now at least he s speaking for himself, there s no trust whatsoever. also with us now, former cleveland police chief patrick oliver. chief, perhaps you can speak to the fact that people have expressed they have not trusted, they have not felt comfortable with the police and we know there was a two-year justice department investigation. which just recently revealed that after this investigation it was found that cleveland police use guns tasers fists and pepper spray excessively and unnecessarily. or in retaliation. now you have this verdict. what are people to think about cleveland police? ....
Welcome back. reaction is pouring in now to the not guilty verdict rendered for this cleveland police officer right here michael brelo. you ll see in a matter of moments he will be reduced to tears when the judge issued not guilty on two counts of voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of timothy russell and melissa williams back in november 29th of 2012. they were in their vehicle when more than 130 shots were fired by 13 police officers in all killing those two who were unarmed. but in the end one officer with be michael brelo, faced two counts of voluntary manslaughter and the judge said not guilty. now we have reaction from timothy russell s reaction michelle. this is what she said moments ago. so all of that the police has drummed up a story about the gun, about using the car as a weapon that is not true. i know that 100%. is not true. ....