{"id":82389,"date":"2018-10-18T06:14:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T10:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82389"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:06","slug":"thursday-morning-feel-good-stories-189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82389","title":{"rendered":"Thursday morning feel good stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Cleveland, OH<\/a><\/p>\n

A Cleveland police officer fired after he was accused of shooting and killing an unarmed burglary suspect in 2015 has been reinstated.<\/p>\n

Cleveland police union officials told the Fox 8 I-Team Wednesday\u00a0that Alan Buford won an arbitration ruling and will be reinstated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is another example of the city wrongly firing a good police officer,\u201d said Jeff Follmer, president of the city\u2019s police union.<\/p>\n

City officials could not be reached to discuss the matter. It is not known if the city will appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n

Buford was acquitted in 2017 of negligent homicide after fatally shooting Brandon Jones, 18, outside a Parkwood Avenue store March 19, 2015.<\/p>\n

Buford and his partner confronted Jones as he was leaving the store with a bag of stolen cigarettes, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n

Cleveland police said the officers got into a struggle with Jones when they tried to arrest him. That\u2019s when Buford fired his service weapon, killing Jones.<\/p>\n

Jones did not have a weapon. Buford\u2019s attorney argued the shooting was justified because a reasonable officer would have feared for his life.<\/p>\n

Attorney Paul Cristallo, who represents the family of Brandon Jones, says a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and the officer is still pending in court.<\/p>\n

Cristallo released a statement on behalf of Brandon Jones\u2019 family, \u201cWe are shocked and saddened, yet not surprised. This is why civil rights lawsuits are necessary. What other job can you shoot and kill a young man without provocation and get your job back without any ramifications. Brandon\u2019s family did not get justice in the criminal case and now they are denied the satisfaction of knowing that this officer would be held accountable by the Cleveland Police Department. We are left with their last hope for acknowledgment in the civil court. It may ultimately take a jury to objectively judge Officer Buford for his wrongful actions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From\u00a0CLARKSVILLE, IN<\/a><\/p>\n

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A violent domestic dispute between a man, a woman and her daughter ended in gunshots when a neighbor stepped in, potentially saving a life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The shooting happened around 10 p.m. Tuesday night at the River Chase Apartments on Harvard Drive in Clarksville. Police said the man accused of battery is the one who ended up dead.<\/p>\n

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Clarksville Police said that man was beating a woman and her young daughter when a neighbor attempted to break up the fight. The neighbor grabbed the handgun he owned and tried to stop him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHe did approach the individual who was assaulting the lady and her child and did, at gunpoint, instruct him to leave them alone and sit down on the curb,\u201d said Clark County Prosecutor Jeremy Mull.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police said the man complied for a while but then tried to attack the neighbor and ignored warnings to stop. When he came at the neighbor, police said he shot him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Based upon what we learned last night, I’m of the belief that it was self-defense, that it was justified under the law and therefore there was no arrest made in the case,” Mull said. “In a case where an individual was acting violently and had just violently assaulted a child and a defenseless lady. Due to his intervention, that assault was terminated and this individual was ultimately killed in an act of self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Wednesday, the River Chase Apartments sit quiet. Police filled the area near units on Harvard Drive Tuesday night after reports came in that a man had been shot and killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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