Written and reported with Gabriel Baird
Cleveland police on Wednesday released a jailhouse surveillance video
that contradicts claims that an officer was struck in the face with a
suspect's belt.
Police administrators provided a copy to The
Plain Dealer, bringing an end to conflicting statements from city
officials about whether the video still existed and whether they
intended to make the images public.
A police lieutenant, in response to a March subpoena in the subsequent assault case, had told an assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor that the footage no longer existed.
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