Matthew Richmond

The City of Euclid has agreed to a settlement in a federal lawsuit over the 2017 arrest of Richard Hubbard. According to Hubbard’s attorney, Christopher McNeal, the $450,000 settlement with Euclid officers Michael Amiott, Matt Gilmer and Kirk Pavkov and the city of Euclid provides some closure for Hubbard and Yolimar Tirado, who was with Hubbard during the arrest.

At the first meeting of Akron City Council’s Reimagining Public Safety Committee, Akron Police Chief Kenneth Ball made a brief appearance to get things rolling. “I would say that I’m thankful to be here, but I’m not. I’m frustrated,” Ball told members of council in September 2020.

The federal government dropped charges against two Pennsylvania men they originally said traveled to Cleveland on May 30 to participate in a riot.

It appears unlikely Timothy Loehmann, the officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice in 2014, will ever get his job back with Cleveland Division of Police. The 8th District Court of Appeals in Cuyahoga County dismissed the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association’s appeal of Loehmann’s firing Thursday.

Jessica Watkins, a central Ohioan who participated in the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, will remain in jail until her trial. The Washington, D.C. federal district court judge’s decision to hold Watkins, despite the pretrial release of other alleged participants in the riot, focused on her leadership role in an antigovernment militia.

The Cleveland Division of Police’s (CDP) use of force reporting and community engagement before and during the May 30 social justice protest in Downtown Cleveland are under scrutiny by the federal monitor overseeing the city’s police reform efforts. In a review of 29 officers’ use of force reports from May 30, the monitor found officers didn’t record the quantity of non-lethal munitions that were fired, making it hard to evaluate whether excessive force was used.

Since the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building, extreme groups and militias across the United States – and how to respond to them – are getting increased attention.

Anthony Sowell, who was convicted in 2011 of killing 11 women in Cleveland, died Monday in an Ohio prison medical facility. A prison spokeswoman said the 61-year-old was admitted Jan. 21 with a terminal illness after spending close to 10 years on death row. She provided no details on his illness, other than that it was not COVID-19 related.

The president of the Cleveland Warriors, the local amateur football team made up of police and corrections officers and first responders, appears to have resigned. That’s what team president and coach, Bill Sofranko, texted Randy Knight, an ex-player protesting the team’s inclusion of Timothy Loehmann, the former Cleveland police officer who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014.

The Cleveland Warriors, an amateur football team in Northeast Ohio made up of police officers, prison guards and first responders, had some unwanted…