Friday, September 25, 2015
Associated Press
CLEVELAND
The prosecutor who cleared an off-duty Cleveland policeman in a fatal shooting wants the sheriff’s office to review the officer’s actions now that he was found liable in that death in a civil case.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty previously concluded 20-year-old Kenny Smith, of Euclid, was lunging for a gun when he was shot in the head by officer Roger Jones in March 2012. This month, a jury awarded Smith’s family $5.5 million in the civil case that found Jones liable for using excessive force.
McGinty’s spokesman tells the Northeast Ohio Media Group that the prosecutor wanted someone to take a fresh look at what happened and requested that from the sheriff’s office last week.
Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association President Steve Loomis calls the request a “political move.”