I Don't Get It. #137.

In 2012, mentally unstable crack addicts Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams drove by a Cleveland police station.  Their piece-of-crap car backfired, which the police mistook for a gunshot.  The cops took off in hot, angry pursuit.  During a 20-mile chase involving 60+ police cars, Russell refused to pull over even though the cops had opened fire on his vehicle.  When his bullet-riddled old Chevy finally rolled to a stop, Russell had been wounded multiple times, as had Williams.  At that point, Officer Michael Brelo hopped up onto the Chevy's hood and finished them off by firing 15 shots through the windshield.

Officer Brelo is white.  Russell and Williams were black and unarmed.  In total, 137 shots were fired at them and their vehicle.  One hundred and thirty seven.  A crack pipe was on the front seat.

Yesterday, Brelo was found innocent of voluntary manslaughter, even though he emptied his weapon at point-blank range upon two unarmed, grievously wounded people who posed no threat or danger to anyone at that point.  Brelo took it upon himself to make sure they were good and dead, on the off chance they weren't already.  Because they . . . didn't pull over?  

And for that, he's innocent of all criminal charges.  I just don't get it.  Either the prosecutor brought the wrong charges, or the judge made the wrong decision, or the law itself is wrong.  Something is wrong.  It's wrong in Cleveland.  And it's wrong in plenty of other cities.