Police Have Violent Confrontation In OTR, Tensions Run High
DJ
Reported by: Steve Johnson
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Photographed by: Richard Lane/Jason Garrison
10/9/03 10:29:55 PM
Four people are in jail after a violent confrontation in Over-the-Rhine
Thursday between police and several suspects. Officers said it could have been
worse, one of the suspects had a loaded gun.
It happened Thursday evening in Over-the-Rhine, 9News was the first to bring
you this story.
Police at District One admit it was a violent confrontation and said the
suspects are lucky they didn't use deadly force, but Over-the-Rhine neighbors
who witnessed the arrest said police still went too far.
"They were on top of this guy they had his knees, one officer had his knees in
the guys legs the other two officers had his knees in his back he begins
punching the guy in his ribs," said Rodney Beamon, witness.
Beamon said he's one of more than a dozen people who saw it all, Cincinnati
police attacking a man in handcuffs. That man was 19-year-old Charles Antonio
Brooks and the crowd did not like what they saw.
"When they were hitting the young boy in his ribs that's when the crowd
approached police, saying 'stop, stop, what y'all hitting him for?'" Beamon
said.
Cincinnati police said one of their bike patrol officers witnessed Brooks
making a drug deal at the corner of Republic and Green Street and when the
officer confronted him Brooks resisted.
"Officer Woods was still standing over his bike at this point the subject
forcibly then tried to get away, pulling Officer Woods off of his bicycle,"
police said.
Chief Tom Streicher said what people saw may have been ugly, but it was a life
or death situation for his officers because Brooks was carrying a loaded nine
millimeter handgun.
"If someone has a hold of a gun and the person refuses to release that gun and
you're in a close situation like they were, all bets are off, you fight and you
win that fight the best way that you can and that's what these officers did,"
Streicher said.
"Clearly to those in the community who are upset, it looks like a case of
police brutality," Streicher said.
City Council Candidate Reverend Damon Lynch, III, said people who saw the
arrest are upset.
"Tensions and emotions run high when people see somebody beaten in the streets
while police are affecting an arrest," Lynch said.
Police said they found a small amount of marijuana on Brooks. Right now he is
being charged with carrying a concealed weapon, resisting an arrest and
obstruction of police business.
Meanwhile, three other people are in jail at the Hamilton County Justice Center
in connection with this incident. Nineteen-year-old David McMullen is facing
similar charges and 25-year-old Levell Lowery and 33-year-old Joseph Sheparo
were arrested for allegedly assaulting police.
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"The gravest abuse of power - and the gravest threats to personal liberty and
security - are those in which the very individuals to whom we look for the
preservation of law and order turn out to be the predators."
Zenner
crap!
Observers can't all and always be wrong or is it just that the great
unwashed are against the police?
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carrying a loaded concealed gun is fine and dandy. Another case of
dangerous drug-infested neighborhoods filled with Reverends. Officer are
dealing with a no-win situation with scum like this. I think DJ needs to
drive into to one of these neighborhoods late one saturday night and
attempt to hold a town meeting. She can change all this with her magic
wand.
DJ
>crap!
>Observers can't all and always be wrong or is it just that the great
>unwashed are against the police?
I took my shower this morning, just like every other morning. I have not had
so much as a parking ticket in my life. I am not against the police. I am
against corruption, brutality and unjustified killings by police. Where do you
stand?
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am not against the police." Sure
you're not!!! RFLMAO!!!!!
"I am against corruption, brutality and unjustified killings by police."
Truth is,,,,,, DJ is FOR any thug that makes up a crock of shit against
police, be it true or not. DJ doesn't want to hear both sides of the
story. DJ would make a great media reporter.
DJ
And you know me personally? I don't think so. I am very picky about my close
friends and they are the only ones who know me well enough to know what I think
or feel.