“When they shot me I was backing up and stepped back and turned around and they shot.”
Early in the morning of February 20th, Cleveland police shot a suspected heroin dealer, 36-year-old Corey Pope, at his apartment building at 12700 Fairhill Road in Shaker Heights. The bullet went through his arm and into his chest. We imagine it hurt.
Lt. Thomas Stacho, a police department spokesman, said that Pope tried to slam the door on the police, trapping one officer’s arm, so they popped his ass. (Stacho put it more diplomatically than that, but you get the drift.) …
This article appears in Mar 5-11, 2008.