Prosecutor seeks sheriff's review of Cleveland cop who killed man
CLEVELAND -- The prosecutor who cleared an off-duty Cleveland policeman in a fatal shooting is asking the sheriff's office to review the officer's actions now that he was found liable in that death in a civil case. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty and Cleveland police had concluded that 20-year-old Kenny Smith, of Euclid, was lunging for a gun when he was shot in the head by Officer Roger Jones in March 2012. In early September, a jury awarded Smith's family $5.5 million in the federal
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