Cleveland has agreed to overhaul its police department under the supervision of a federal monitor in a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over a pattern of excessive force and other abuses by officers.
The settlement announced today comes three days after the acquittal of Officer Michael Brelo for his role in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire which killed two suspects after a car chase in 2012.
The case helped prompt an 18-month investigation by the Justice Department.
Read the entire 105-page settlement below.
Video: Vanita Gupta, head of the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Standing to Gupta's left is Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams. To her left is U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach.