A white police officer was acquitted after killing two black

A police officer in Cleveland, Ohio, was acquitted saturday of murdering two blacks killed by several bullets in their car after a spectacular chase in 2012. A verdict could fuel tensions race in the United States.
The trial will follow and at the end, the verdict seems to always be the same. Judged for the murder of two blacks after a chase in 2012, the police officer Brelo Michael, aged 31, was acquitted saturday by justice Cleveland. In 2012 Cleveland police fired a total of 137 shots toward the car Malissa Williams and his friend Timothy Russell, while the vehicle was stopped. At the time, the image of the windscreen riddled with bullets, behind which the two occupants were killed, shocked the population.

The officer accused in this trial is a former Marine. After the chase, he climbed on the hood of the vehicle and the two victims had pulled itself 49 times. But according to the judge, it's not possible to prove that these are his bullets that caused the death of two suspects. According to the judge, he acted in a "reasonable" when he could believe that the occupants of the car were armed, which was actually not the case.

This decision isn't going to calm tensions in Cleveland, where, as in Baltimore or Ferguson, excessive use of force is a daily of police. This is the conclusion of a federal survey released last year after the death of Tamir Rice, a black child aged 12, who was playing in a park with a toy gun when he was shot by a white police officer.

Saturday, just after the verdict, hundreds of protesters took to the streets to protest against Cleveland this acknowledgment, chanting "No justice, no peace." Some clashes with the police were a wounded man. Three people were arrested.

Source : France Info