Wed 10/13 @ 6-7:30PM
The United Way of Greater Cleveland and Cleveland NAACP continue their series of virtual community conversations about the Cleveland Consent Decree, conversations looking at different aspects of policing in Cleveland.
The city of Cleveland and the U.S. Department of Justice entered into the Consent Decree in May 2015 to address the charges that Cleveland police had a pattern of using excessive force and had lost the trust of the community.
The previous November, two police officers, recklessly violating police protocol, drove up on 12-year-old Tamir Rice in a west side park and instantly shot him fatally. This month’s 10th in the series of conversations with look at how the police interact with children.
“Few police departments in the country have clear policies on how police should interact with children, but Cleveland is among the first in the country to enact specific rules in this area,” they say. “The Cleveland policy will require that officers consider factors like the perceived age, physical build, and emotional state of anyone under 18 before using force.”
Unfortunately, that won’t bring back Tamir.
Fox 8 News’ Alex Stokes will moderate the panel, which includes Gabriella Celeste of Case western Reserve’s Schubert Center for Child Studies, an expert on the intersection of child development and policy; ZRi Hitchcock, a Tri-C graduate and CSU pre-med student; Tri-C police officer Brandon Tisdale; Timothy Tramble, president/CEO of the St. Luke’s Foundation and a member of the Cleveland Polie Monitoring Team; and Cleveland Chief of Polive Calvin Williams.
To register for the free forum, go here.