another revolting development in the continuing racial inequality that this country is drowning in.

Immediately after the 20 miles of high speed chase... Huge difference I'm sure...

edit : 22 miles

From wikipedia

they should be responsible regardless of whether it's after a chase or not.

Police officers seldom even get in front of juries in the first place. That doesn't make it ok.

"Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge John O'Donnell found Brelo not guilty on two counts of manslaughter, ruling that he did not have probable cause to find that Brelo fired the fatal shots."

What number is too many?

How many rounds per officer or is this limit to be per responding officer?

If one guy fires more and another fires less do you average them?

Who sets that number?

but it's excessive. Nobody in that car was moving way way before that.

All of my questions still stand...

"How many guns is too many" and "How many bullets in one cartridge" etc. There is no specific number, but that doesn't mean that 137 isn't ridiculous. If a person has to ground their kid, we know that 6 weeks of having to stay in the same room is excessive even if we don't know whether 20 minutes or an hour or whatever was reasonable in any particular case. There was a similar high-speed chase with someone who was pointing a gun at police officers near me and there were 5 or 6 shots heard. At some point between 5 and 6, and 137, people are just emptying out their guns because it's fun to shoot them.

... But you'll let us know when it's too much...

And it makes no more sense. Have you ever thought a police officer might have done the wrong thing?

I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one on television, but...

Feels like he was charged too narrowly ?

From the way this reads, it sounds like the only way he would be guilty would be if they could prove that the bullet(s) that caused death came from his gun. Odds were pretty much on his side.

At the same time, it seems like we have a lot of guys in prison for "accessory to murder" who were outside in the car waiting or walking in a group with the shooter or hanging out in the same bar.

I wonder if there was a better way to charge him that might not have felt as spectacular (i.e. manslaughter) but would have allowed him to be guilty of some kind of felony.

...downward through the windshield into the victims at close range as he stood on the hood of Mr. Russell's car," Cayahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGlinty said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/23/us/cleveland-police-verdict/